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
ISLAMABAD: Militants in Swat warned media personnel on Tuesday of dire consequences if they did not ‘mend their ways’. According to a private TV channel, pamphlets sent to the offices of newspapers and TV channels asked them to review their role and avoid following “an anti-Taliban agenda”. It was signed by the ‘commander’ of the […]
PESHAWAR: A reporter of The News, Delawar Jan, was taken away by a security agency from his office here on Tuesday evening and detained until he disclosed the source of a news item which he had filed on Monday about a military operation in Buner. The reporter refused to disclose the source and the officials […]
PESHAWAR: Writers, poets, academicians and intellectuals, who gathered at a Literati Peace Conference here the other day, unanimously believe the current trouble on the Pakhtuns’ land was part of the ‘international great game’ and a conspiracy against its inhabitants. Highlighting the need for peace in the province, tribal areas and rest of the country, the […]
PESHAWAR: Pashto female singer Shamim Aiman Udas was killed on Sunday, police said. Her husband Usman reported at Paharipura Police Station that the singer’s brothers Alamgir and Ismaeel were not happy with her having singing profession despite their disapproval. They (allegedly) opened fire on her near Koochi Plaza and killed her. Police registered a case […]
MIRPURKHAS: Local journalists and different political organizations took out a protest rally here on Monday from local press club to protest against the police failure to arrest the killers of late Journalist Zubair Ahmed Mujahid and threats of dire consequences given to local journalist Rashid Saleem. Protesters led by senior journalist Saleem Azad, carried banners […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira Monday said the media while using it right to freedom of expression should keep the national interests supreme in its coverage of the comments of certain individuals. In a telephonic interview to PTV, he said the democratic government adheres to its commitment to freedom of expression […]
Islamabad: Former Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman has condemned the killing of a journalist Wasi Ahmed who succumbed to gun shot injuries in Karachi this week. Wasi was shot at in Khasdar District during the outbreak of violence in Balochistan following the killing of three Baloch leaders last week. She said that […]
BUNER: Three journalists working for Al Jazeera TV channel were injured in an attack in Daggar, the district headquarters of Buner, on Wednesday. The journalists were covering the military operation when their vehicle came under attack. Correspondent Abdur Rehman Matar, who is from a Middle East country, was seriously injured. His cameraman Adnan and producer […]
PESHAWAR: A newspaper reporter injured in violence in Balochistan last week died in a Karachi hospital on Thursday. Wasi Ahmed, a newspaper reporter, had been shot and injured in Khuzdar district on April 11 and taken to a Karachi hospital. The World Press Freedom and Reporters Without Borders (RWB) organisations have expressed shock at the […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) and the Crimes Journalists Forum (CJF) NWFP has condemned attack on Pakistani journalists by Hindu fanatics in India and demanded of the governments of both India and Pakistan to take effective measures for protection of media-persons. In a joint press statement, KhUJ President Mohammed Riaz and General Secretary […]
EW DELHI: Activists of the Shri Ram Sena, a Hindu extremist group, tried to disrupt a Pak-India journalists moot here on Wednesday. Organised by the Foundation for Professional Journalists, two groups of journalists from each country formed a panel for a discussion on “Is media jingoism fanning Indo-Pak tensions.” Journalists from Pakistan included Rahimullah Yusufzai, […]
KHAR: The political authorities have warned Mamond tribesmen to abide by the agreement inked with the government and stop transmissions of illegal radio stations in Bajaur tribal region. Addressing a jirga of various tribes from Mamond area in Khar, Political Agent Shafirullah Khan said the administration had struck a twenty-point peace deal with elders of […]
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