The incursion into the Karachi offices of the Jang Group by activists of a ‘party’ is obviously an attempt on the part of those in power to stifle the voices of dissent. The acceptance that the age of a monolithic media dominated by state-run institutions has passed into history is, sadly, still to come. It […]
KARACHI: The Sindh National Party (SNP) leaders and workers marched towards the main building of the Jang Group from the Karachi Press Club on Sunday evening and staged a sit-in outside the building. Some of the activists attacked the offices of the Jang Group and Geo Television and snatched weapons from security guards and resorted […]
The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has invited nominations for the Annual Aslam Ali Press Freedom Award – 2010 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 Freedom Award is intended to honour […]
PESHAWAR: Taking notice of the incidents of police torture on journalists and a trader, Senior Provincial Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour has asked the police high-ups to submit him a report in this regard. Bashir Bilour is the first one who took notice of the incident of torture on a Geo reporter by the Bhanamari police. […]
KARACHI: The Jang Group is once again being punished for depicting the true picture of society and keeping the people abreast of the latest development and for exercising freedom of expression. According to details, the statistics presented in National Assembly’s Friday session regarding Geo for not paying GST were exaggerated and against the facts. However, […]
ISLAMABAD — In a new spin to the deportation saga of Danish journalist Ms Puk Damsgard Anderson, Danish Ambassador to Pakistan jumped into the fray to get the deportation orders of his countrywoman rescinded while Ministry of Interior was not putting its foot down to get the orders implemented. Sources aware of the whole affair […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Hundreds of activists of various political parties held a rally and staged a sit-in here on Saturday on the call of the All Parties Alliance against torture on local journalist Ghulam Hussain Soomro by the PPP district general secretary, Karam Shah, three weeks ago. The rally was led by Convener of the All […]
Sir: Press freedom in Pakistan is a mixed bag; it has some degree of press freedom but also serious restrictions, thus rendering it crippled in many important respects. The greatest threat these days comes from the terrorists, i.e. the local Taliban. If a journalist dares to write or say something anti-Taliban, he/she is threatened. Many […]
By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: A senior legal expert of the PML-N has approached the Supreme Court with a request to declare unconstitutional and against fundamental rights certain sections of the Freedom of Information Ordinance which “arbitrarily and unreasonably” limit the scope of accessibility to public record. In the petition, Barrister Zafarullah Khan pleaded that the […]
By Abdul Aziz NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A court has told 12 government employees moonlighting as newsmen not to attend official functions and stop calling themselves journalists for one year. The senior civil judge of Naushahro Feroze on Friday passed the restraining order on a petition filed by Hafiz Abdul Haq Panhwar, a journalist, seeking cancellation of […]
PESHAWAR: A Taliban spokesman warned the media for “the last time” on Friday against “ignoring” his group’s viewpoint, and claimed newspapers and TV channels were “hiding the truth”. The warning by Muhammad Umar — a “spokesman for the Taliban Media Centre”” in North Waziristan — was emailed to the media hours after a deadly attack […]
NAUSHERO FEROZE: The local police on Thursday assaulted and illegally arrested two journalists who went to the police station to get information about the arrest of three dacoits. Reporters Ghullam Mustafa Tagar of The News and Geo News and Zafar Tagar reached the police station on Thursday morning after receiving news of the arrest of […]
Azmat Ali Bangash, 34, reporter working for Pakistan Television (PTV), Samaa TV and Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency, was killed, alongwith 41 other people when two suicide bombers blew themselves up amidst a crowd of displaced persons collecting relief supplies in Kohat district of province Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, April 17, 2010. According to […]
QUETTA: At least 11 people, a cameraman of a private TV channel and four police officers among them, were killed and over 40 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a hospital here on Friday. A member of the National Assembly, Syed Nasir Ali Shah of the PPP, his son, five TV […]
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