ISLAMABAD: The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) held a protest demonstration on Wednesday in front of the National Press Club (NPC) to demand early recovery of senior journalist Kamal Azfar. Mr Azfar, who is a former RIUJ president, went missing while travelling to his native town of Gumbat from Kohat. A large number of journalists […]
Three media men, Amjad Ali Shah, reporter of TV channel “Express News”, his cameraman Muhammad Imranullah Siddiqui and Muhammad Israr, reporter of Pashto language TV channel “AVT Khyber”, accompanying the convoy of security forces were injured in bomb blast at about 11:20 am in Lower Dir district of north-western Pakistan on February 3, 2010. Three […]
THATTA: Singer Allah Dino Khaskheli has said that his ment- ally-ill teenage son has disappeared after being picked up by police, and accused police of beating him and his sons. He appealed to the chief minister, home minister and culture minister of Sindh for justice and an inquiry into alleged police excesses. Showing marks of […]
JAND: A bomb blast in a CD market injured five people and damaged 10 shops on Thursday. According to details, at around 8:30am, people in the CD market spotted a suspicious box, which exploded a short while later. As a result, five people identified as Safdar Abbas, Abdul Malik, Tufail, Irfanullah and Hanif were injured […]
By Wajih Ahmed Sheikh LAHORE: Lawyers of the Lahore Bar Association turned their guns on the media when their colleague Advocate Chaudhry Naeem, who is the main accused in the Shazia murder case, was brought to the court of a magistrate here on Tuesday. The magistrate granted three-day physical remand of Mr Naeem to police […]
QUETTA- Dozens of journalists hailing from print and electronic media on Tuesday took out a rally to protest against maltreatment of police with media personnel and staged a demonstration outside Quetta Press Club. The rally was held under auspices of Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) led by General Secretary Quetta Press Club Abdul Rehman Achakzai […]
ISLAMABAD: Unidentified people attacked the house of a reporter of DawnNews in the early hours of Tuesday and damaged property. The attackers did not cause any physical harm to Azaz Syed and his family, and left after hurling stones at the house and damaging his car. Mr Syed told Dawn that his younger brother woke […]
Even as we celebrate an age of expanded media freedom, efforts continue to hold it back. The attack by hooligans linked to a political party on a senior correspondent in Hyderabad, for attributing certain comments to their chief, is the latest example of this. The report had already been clarified following standard journalistic protocol in […]
TRAGICALLY, journalists in Pakistan are under fire not only from shadowy security agencies and religious extremists. They must also contend with local hooligans, often supporters of one or the other political party or belonging to a particular group. This observation is underscored by Thursday’s horrendous incident in Hyderabad in which Dawn’s correspondent M.H. Khan was […]
HYDERABAD- Muhammad Hussain Khan, the staff correspondent of ‘Dawn’ in Hyderabad, was brutally assaulted by workers of the Sindh National Front (SNF) on the Radio Pakistan road here on Thursday afternoon while he was on his way to the press club. He received several head injuries and one of his fingers was fractured. He was […]
By Mushtaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: Taliban militants in Miramshah, North Waziristan, detained a freelance journalist working for the Associated Press (AP) for shooting in the volatile tribal region in violation of a ban imposed by them. Taliban spokesman Ahmadullah Ahmadi told The News by phone from somewhere in North Waziristan that the reporter had been taken […]
ISLAMABAD: At least one confirmed source of harassment and threats to journalists not liked by the ruling PPP has finally been detected when a threat sent through an SMS to senior Islamabad journalist, Ansar Abbasi, was traced by authorities and found to be coming from Ali Wahab Siddiqui, the son of PPP information secretary Fauzia […]
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber on Tuesday attacked a Pakistan journalists’ club, killing three people in the first assault on media offices. Strapped with explosives, the man walked up to the gate of the press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar, where he blew himself up as police stopped him from entering the building, officials […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has blocked Voice of America’s (VOA) 4-hour Pashto language programme on the latter’s alleged deviation from agreement. However, the US state-owned radio service continues to avail Radio Pakistan’s hour-long airtime for its Urdu transmission daily. “Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has blocked four hours Pashto transmission of VOA, while the […]
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