MIANWALI: Two foreign journalists, who visited Darya Khan tehsil of Bhakkar district to interview the parents of a man allegedly involved in a terror attack on Rescue 15 building in Lahore, were sent back to Islamabad late on Thursday night after they failed to produce a permission letter from the authorities for the purpose. The […]
ISLAMABAD: Unknown assailants fired at the residence of renowned journalist Kamran Shafi midnight Friday. The family of Kamran remained safe and a complaint was lodged with the POF Wah police station. Meanwhile, President Asif Ali Zradari and PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif have strongly condemned the incident. Kamran Shafi told APP that at midnight November 27 […]
LAHORE – A group of lawyers of Lahore Bar Association (LBA) on Wednesday again manhandled a private television news reporter and its cameraman at the premises of session court for no reason. It is pertinent to mention here that it was not the first time when the lawyers gave a good thrashing to journalists. It […]
SHIKARPUR: A senior journalist was booked for defamation and charge-sheeted in the court of IVth additional sessions judge of Shikarpur here on Wednesday. He was arrested in a case registered by a SHO against him on Tuesday. The court sent him to the Civil Hospital of Shikarpur for medical examination and treatment after arrested journalist […]
KARACHI: Under immense pressure from President Asif Ali Zardari on the Dubai government, ‘Meray Mutabiq’, the popular programme of Dr Shahid Masood on Geo TV, was banned from being telecast on Monday night from the Dubai studios of Geo TV. Dr Masood presented his programme from a different location without the use of his studio […]
QUETTA – Unidentified militants fired rocket targeting radio station in Khuzdar district about 400 kilometers way from here on Thursday. The sources said, two rockets were fired by militants, apparently targeting radio station Khuzdar but the rockets missed their target and landed in an isolated area near radio station. The rockets exploded with big bang […]
SUKKUR: A complete strike was observed and a sit-in was staged in Ghotki on the National Highway on Monday in protest against an armed attack on an office of a newspaper agent, leading to injuries to son of a journalist. Riding a motorcycle, three armed men raided the office of a newspaper agent and opened […]
LARKANA: The Sindh Sahafi Sangat, Larkana chapter, on Thursday condemned the threats to a senior journalist of Daur. Sangat Sindh President Nazir Siyal said some elements were using threats of dire consequences to Anwar Adil Khanzada on accurate reporting. They called for protection and security of journalists. Source: The News Date:11/13/2009
LAHORE: Punjab police personnel manhandled a journalist and students of the MAO College, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. According to the channel, students of the MAO College were protestingby blocking Bank Road when the police officials beat up journalist Umer Aslam and the college students. Police took Umer into custody and took him […]
ZULFIQAR AHMAD ISLAMABAD (November 03 2009): The Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Amendment) bill 2008 reflects mala fide intent of the government and is designed to curb freedom of expression and control the free press in the country. Prominent journalist and security analyst Nasim Zehra said on Monday that journalists were being punished for telling the […]
Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (PEMRA) has directed a number of FM radio stations in Pakistan to stop broadcasting BBC news bulletins on the ground that they had violated the terms of their license for “violation of the terms and conditions of their licence.” In a letter issued to FM radio stations on Monday, October […]
GUJRAT: Students and security guards of the Government Science Degree College (GT Road), a constituent college of the University of Gujrat, on Tuesday thrashed a TV cameraman and damaged his cameras while he was covering in-absentia funeral prayers for the victims of the International Islamic University Islamabad blast. Mirza Muhammad Younis, a lensman working for […]
RAWALPINDI: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has warned the media to stop working against it or face its wrath. A spokesman for the banned outfit, Azam Tariq, while talking to a British-based broadcasting corporation said that the media could only then be called as independent when it projects the Taliban’s viewpoint, along with the government version. […]
MIRAMSHAH: Militants banned the entry of non-local journalists into the North Waziristan Agency, alleging most of the outsiders were spreading propaganda against them. “Majority of the reporters coming from outside spread disinformation about this place which has forced us to ban their entry into the area,” the militants said in a statement on Friday. “We […]
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