PESHAWAR: Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) has strongly condemned the firing on media persons at Malakand Top allegedly by the security forces that resulted in injuries to a cameraperson and a driver on Tuesday and demanded of the government to provide security to journalists. A reporting team of Pashto-language TV channel along with a photographer […]
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police on Tuesday baton-charged journalists protesting against the non-implementation of the Wage Award and demanding an end to termination of services of employees from some media organisations. The journalists led by Secretary Rawalpindi/Islamabad Press Club, Afzal Butt were marching towards the Parliament House where they were subjecting to baton-charge by police. Later, journalists […]
ISLAMABAD – A repulsive incident of torture against media occurred here on Monday evening when enraged workers of Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), the students wing of Jamat-e-Islami, violently tortured working journalists covering a protest rally of IJT and broke the arm bone of a photo journalist. Scores of IJT students thrashed journalists, broke their cameras […]
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has taken strong exception to the inhumanly treatment meted out to the Gujranwala-based Correspondent of Express T.V channel Hafiz Shahid Muneer and his family members over exposing of the misdeeds and high headiness of the Police with the public. In a strongly-worded statement issued here on Friday by […]
NAWABSHAH: A reporter of a private TV channel went missing near Gullan water stop Gupchhani on Saturday and his relatives fear he might have been kidnapped. Wahid Khokhar, a local reporter of Sindh TV and Daily Ibrat, when he was returning home from Nawabshah. Police have found his motorcycle abandoned at the place the water […]
MANSEHRA: Unidentified miscreants blew up a CD shop in Oghi area early Saturday. Sources said that unidentified miscreants had planted explosive devices near a CD shop in Shahjee Market in Oghi tehsil, which went off early in the day. “The CD shop was completely destroyed while some nearby shops were also damaged partially,” a police […]
NOWSHERA: Police and security agencies on Sunday, May 31, 2009, closed down two FM radio channels run by a religious outfit in Jahangira and Pirpai. Briefing the media, District Police Officer Abdullah Khan said the secret agencies and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) informed the police that two illegal FM radio channels were […]
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), with the help of police, sealed an illegal FM radio station at Saiphan Chowk and seized its broadcast equipment on Friday, May 29, 2009. According to a press release, the PEMRA also warned that running an illegal FM radio could entail a jail term of up to […]
KOHAT: A minor girl was injured and four shops were gutted in a bomb blast here on Friday. Militants had planted a time bomb at a CD shop near the New Bus Stand which went off in the small hours. Rasheeda Bibi in the nearby house was injured while the shop was completely destroyed. A […]
Twenty journalists were injured in a massive suicide car bomb blast on 27 May 2009 that killed at least 30 people and injured over 250, in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Offices of a number of newspapers and television stations were also damaged in the blast. According to the Punjab Union of Journalists […]
GILGIT: Journalists and human rights activists staged protest demonstration and sit-in on Tuesday against the attack on one of their fellow journalists by a group of people. The attackers, including a policeman, also burnt entire bundle of a local newspaper for publishing a news story regarding resignation of a cleric who leads Friday prayers in […]
May 21, 2009 H.E Asif Ali Zahari President Office of the President Awan-E-Sadar Constitution Avenue Islamabad Islamic Republic of Pakistan Fax: (011.92.51.2) 920.3938 Your Excellency: We wish you great success in your campaign against the Taliban in the northwest. And we ask you to direct the military to give some protection to journalists in the […]
Reporters Without Borders deplores the deterioration in the media situation in the Swat valley since the military launched an offensive against the Taliban. The valley has been plunged into chaos, fighting is raging, the population is fleeing, and the media are all paralysed. Local newspapers have stopped publishing for safety reasons. National newspapers are no […]
PESHAWAR: Unidentified miscreants broke into the house of a Peshawar-based reporter of a private television channel in restive Maidan area of Dir Lower district, where military operation is in progress, and looted cash and valuables. Source: The News Date:5/7/2009
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