RAWALPINDI: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) in a meeting in Lahore on Thursday passed a resolution demanding immediate restoration of Geo Super and Aag. The meeting held with SCBA General Secretary Qamar Zaman Qureshi in the chair was attended by SCBA Multan chapter convenor Kanwar Iqbal Ahmed Khan, Aslam Ghuman from Islamabad, finance secretary […]
Suspected militants blew up parts of the privately-owned radio station FM 93 Dilbar Radio at about 1:30 a.m. on April 20, 2011 after planting explosives around the building housing the station. Radio Dilbar is located in the town of Charsadda, 120 kilometres southeast of Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and broadcasts a mix of news and […]
LAHORE: Journalists and other media practitioners assembled under the banner of a consulting firm Individualland as part of its initiative Free, Independent Responsible Media (FIRM) and discussed the problems being faced by the journalists. The speakers at the meeting observed that the media persons, especially the field reporters, are under tremendous pressure – not only […]
By Sohail Khattak KARACHI: Journalists all over the city came together to protest the attack on a TV news reporter and gave the government a two-day deadline to arrest the culprits. Twenty-six-year-old Naveed Kamal was attacked by unidentified men on Tuesday night at Abul Hasan Isphahani road. He was shot in the neck and is […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), while taking cognizance of perpetual violations by Geo News and Geo Super with regards to Pemra Ordinance 2002, and licence terms and conditions, on Tuesday issued notices to Geo News for what it alleged airing false news reports whereby it was claimed that Pemra had blocked the transmission […]
The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has extended the date until April 15, 2011 for receipt nominations for the annual Aslam Ali Press Freedom Award-2011. The award, instituted by PPF with support of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), carries a cash award of one hundred thousand rupees (Rs. 100,000). The Aslam Ali Press […]
Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has ordered the shut down the transmission of AAG TV, a private music TV channel, belonging to Independent Media Corporation, owner of the Jang Group of Newspapers, on April 08, 2011. PEMRA said in a public notice issued on April 11, 2011 that after Geo Super shut down its transmission […]
ISLAMABAD: Continuing its vicious persecution campaign against the Jang and Geo Group, Pemra has now asked cable operators to shut down another Geo channel, Aag TV. These Pemra orders were given verbally to cable operators to close the youth channel of Geo, which had planned to show the IPL cricket matches to the cricket loving […]
KARACHI: The country’s most popular and exclusive sports TV channel – Geo Super – stands punished by the government for its overwhelming popularity and incessant efforts to promote sports. At the government’s behest, the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has ordered Geo Super to stop airing from Pakistan. The orders have come from those at […]
Karachi: A newspaper’s crime reporter, Zaman Ibrahim, 40, was shot dead on Sheedi Village Road in Lyari on Saturday. Lyari SP Javed Baloch said that Ibrahim was going on his motorcycle when two motorcyclists followed and shot him in the head. His body was sent to Civil hospital. SP Baloch said the victim was affiliated […]
KARACHI: Journalism is an important and noble profession, and media plays an important role for developing liaison with people besides bringing the public problems to the notice of the government, while the present government of Pakistan People’s Party has always encouraged the positive measures for the development of independent media. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim […]
Muhammad Rafique Balouch, reporter of Urdu language daily “Ummat” and Vice President, Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ), was abducted by four unidentified people in plain clothes on March 21, 2011 in Karachi, the Southern port city and capital of Sindh province of Pakistan. Balouch told Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) that on Monday, March 21, 2011, […]
On March 19, 2011, eight armed men belonging to Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party (STPP), a nationalist political party ransacked the office and harassed staff members of Indus FM 100.20in the city of Tando Muhammad Khan in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. Muhammad Wasi Qureshi, Manager, Indus FM 100.20 Tando Muhammad Khan, told Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) […]
On 14 March 2011, Mohammad Fayyaz Qamar, 25, a Lahore-based cameraman for Dunya News TV, was shot and injured in the premises of Punjab Assembly, a high security zone in Lahore, while he was covering an event. A stray bullet hit him while he was sitting in an area designated for journalists. According to press […]
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