A team of “Express News”TV channel, was fired upon by unidentified men in Orangi town of Karachi on October 6, 2010. The team was attacked as they were filming a factory producing fakecold drinks for their weekly programmes “Consumer Crime”. The news team included Huma Bukhari, the programme host, Associate Producer Rehan Hussain and cameramen […]
On October 4, 2010, paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) personnel attacked bureau office of “VSH News TV”, a private Balochi language TV channel in the city of Hub in Balochistan province. They harassed the staff members and ransacked and damaged office equipment. Jabbar Baloch, reporter of VSH News told Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) at 10:30 PM […]
On October 2, 2010, Lawyers of the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) thrashed journalists including Geo News reporter Ahmed Faraz, Geo News cameraman Hanan Younis and City-42 TV cameraman Maqsood Ahmed Butt in the court premises in Lahore, the capital city of the Punjab province. The lawyers also prevented journalists from discharging their professional duties. According […]
KOHAT: A CD shop was slightly damaged in a bomb blast in Pat Bazaar area of Hangu on Friday. Police said that an unidentified man put a computer packed with 5kg explosives inside the CD shop and left. The owner of the shop got suspicious and threw the CPU outside the shop where it exploded […]
Misri Khan Orakzai, a senior journalist, president of the Hangu Union of Journalist (HUJ) and reporter for a number of newspapers, was shot dead by three unidentified men in the early morning hours of September 14, 2010. The shooting took place in front of the press club in the town of Hangu, in the militancy […]
Abdul Rehman Afridi, editor of a local newspaper “Daily Sitara” in Jacobabad, and also vice president Jacobabad Press Club, in Sindh province was beaten up by five persons on September 8, allegedly for publishing news stories about mismanagement in distribution of relief material among flood affected people of the area by district government. Afridi said […]
Umer Cheema, reporter of Investigation Cell of English daily “The News”, was abducted from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on September 4, 2010 by a group of 12 unidentified men. The abductors drove him to an unknown place, kept him in confinement for six hours, stripped him naked, shaved his hair, eyebrow and moustache and […]
Two media staffers were killed and seven others were injured in a suicide attack on September 3 on a procession in Quetta, the capital city of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province. At least 64 people were killed and over 160 injured in the blast. The procession was organised by the Shiite, Imamia Students’ Organisation to mark […]
Hafiz Muhammad Imran, reporter of “Dunya News” TV channel, Sialkot was assaulted by unidentified persons outside his residence on August 29, 2010. The attack was allegedly because on August 15, Imran filmed the beating to death of two brothers by an enraged mob. The mob then hung their bodies on the trees. According to press […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed the cable operators to immediately close down all Indian, other foreign and local unregistered channels. Chairman Pemra Mushtaq Malik told APP Wednesday that in order to fulfil its respo nsibilities, the Authority has directed the cable operators to immediately suspend the transmission from unregistered channels. […]
Says record shows Salman Taseer is WorldCall chief executive; CJ says transfer of shares by WorldCall is illegal; secretary information ordered to submit report on illegal channels ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued contempt of court notice to the chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) for misguiding the court. A three-member bench […]
Unknown persons fired two rockets at the premises of high-power transmitters of the state owned Radio Pakistan on August 15 in the town of Khuzdar in Pakistan’s restive province of Balochistan. Two days earlier on August 13 the radio station of Radio Pakistan in the town of Gwadar was attacked with hand grenades. There were […]
The website of Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) was hacked on August 15, 2010 by hackers calling themselves the “Indian Cyber Army”. They removed the contents of the website, replacing them with the flag of India and a statement that the site had been hacked by them. The hackers also wrote abusive language and warned of […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA), the All Pakistan Newspapers Association (APNS), Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) and Pakistan Hawkers Union strongly condemned attempts to browbeat the media by acts of forcing cable operators to block TV channels and regretted such conduct against the media during the tenure of a democratic government, says a […]
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