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 […]
PESHAWAR: A CD shop was blown up in Peshawar on Saturday, police said. The blast, which took place in the Badabher police precincts, completely damaged the shop, but no loss of life was reported, local police said. Police have registered a case against unidentified terrorists. Terrorists have stepped up attacks in Peshawar and the provincial […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Thursday issued five notifications apparently to save acting chairman and executive member Dr Jabbar from superior courtÂ’s action against the irregularities committed during the large-scale recruitment in the authority last year. These notifications (copies available with The News) suspended/transferred different vocal officials who had raised voices against […]
A reporting team of “DawnNews”, a private TV news channel, was fired upon by unidentified persons in Tehsil Jati of district Thatta in Pakistan’s second largest Sindh province on February 04, 2011. The team was attacked as they were reporting illegal seizure of landfor their programme. The reporting team included senior anchor Syed Talat Hussain […]
THATTA: DawnNews senior anchor Syed Talat Hussain and cameraman Haider Ali came under attack in the interior of Sindh on Friday evening. A DawnNews team was recording their programme on the plight of flood-affected people in Road More area of Tehsil Jati in Thatta district, when gunmen opened fire. Locals claim the gunmen belong to […]
By Ali K Chishti “Sometimes jihadi media and especially the online media — web 2.0 gives us more information than our intel assets on ground,” confirmed a western intelligence operative based in Washington DC. And there are examples, like only in December the Somalian version of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Shabaab al-Mujahideen, announced its merger with […]
By Shehzad Baloch Bullet-riddled body of famous Balochi and Brahvi folk singer was found in Kanak, Khuzdar district. QUETTA: The bullet-riddled body of a famous Balochi and Brahvi folk singer was found in Kanak, Khuzdar district, on Monday. Ali Jan Issazai and his student Shahzad Nadeem were abducted by a group of armed men from […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Saturday that the new draft bill on freedom of information, which was to be renamed as the Right to Information Bill, would be tabled in the National Assembly by mid-February. “The government fully believes in freedom of expression and the final draft bill […]
KARACHI: An alleged target killer accused the authorities of trying to frame him in the murder case of Geo TV news reporter Wali Khan Babar. Syed Mudassir Hussain alias Mudassir Chief alias Langra denied that he was connected with a defunct religious extremist group or any ethnic party. He was talking to the media at […]
The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has initiated a campaign against continuing violence against journalists in Pakistan. According to a press release issued by the council after a meeting of its standing committee in Karachi, as a part of the torture-free Pakistan campaign the CPNE has also decided to call an All Pakistan Parties […]
KARACHI: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has filed a complaint with Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) over airing a baseless report by a private TV channel over non-issuance of Watan cards. On November 29, a programme on Watan cards to the flood-affected people of a village called Suleman Kharai, tehsil Sajawal, district […]
Wali Khan Babar, 29, reporter of “Geo News, Pakistan’s largest private television news channel, was gunned down by unidentified armed men in Karachi on January 13, 2011. Babar received five bullets – two in forehead, one in jaw and two in neck. He was killed shortly after covering operation against drug-traffickers in Pehalwan Goth area […]
PESHAWAR: At least four persons, including two police officials, sustained injuries when a low-intensity bomb exploded in CD market at Charsadda district on Friday evening, police said. The bomb, which went off in a CD market, known as Doozakh Market in Umerzai Bazaar, caused critical injuries to Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Samiullah. A constable Khalil Ullah […]
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