By: Shahid Rao RAWALPINDI – Some unidentified persons gunned down senior reporter of daily The Nation and Waqt TV Channel, Raja Assad Hameed, on Thursday night at his residence located in the jurisdiction of Sadiqabad Police Station. According to details, when Assad reached the gate of his home at about 10:15 pm, some unknown killers […]
The murder of Tariq Malik, a brave journalist, in broad daylight speaks volumes about the lawlessness prevailing in the city of Lahore in general and Punjab in particular. This tragic incidence is not an appropriate occasion to settle political scores, but one cannot refrain from protesting against the behaviour and callousness of the current government. […]
Rarely does a cabinet minister in Pakistan resign from the post of a minister but during the judicial crisis, the former information minister Sherry Rehman resigned from her ministry, because of the unjustified ban imposed on one of private TV channels without taking her into confidence. She had been a strong supporter of a free […]
By Mushtaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: Taliban militants holding the Canadian woman journalist, Khadija Abdul Qahaar, in North Waziristan tribal region Wednesday threatened to kill her if their demands were not met by the end of March. The Canadian government, it may be mentioned here, has reportedly refused to either negotiate with Taliban militants or pay them […]
Transmission of Pakistan’s two television news channels, “Geo News” and “Aaj TV” was blocked on March 13, 2009 by cable operators in various parts of the country, apparently in compliance with verbal official instructions. Transmission was blocked in Karachi, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Quetta, Multan, and a number of smaller cities all over Pakistan and […]
KARACHI: Hameed Haroon, President and Muhammad Aslam Kazi, Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, deplore the intimidating actions initiated by the federal and the Punjab governments against the Jang Group of Newspapers. These actions include banning of government advertisement in varying degrees by both these governments so as to affect the financial strangulation […]
“It is shocking to see a democratic government use the same censorship measures as Pervez Musharraf’s military government,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We urge the authorities in Islamabad to restore transmission of Geo News and Aaj TV without delay. Such crude censorship will no way help to resolve Pakistan’s political crisis.” Our correspondent from Lahore […]
KARACHI: Faisal Aziz Khan, Secretary General of the Association of TV Journalists (ATJ), said on Friday that ban on freedom of speech would not be tolerated. He said that the governmentÃs continuous silence on the closure of Geo TV transmission had proven that the ban was imposed on the orders of the government. He said […]
Karachi: The personnel of the Boat Basin police station have arrested a man who impersonated himself as a crime reporter of an organisation, and also recovered fake identification cards of various newspaper organisations. The police said that on Friday morning, a man entered the Little Lord High School situated in Shireen Jinnah Colony and introduced […]
ISLAMABAD: The journalists on Friday staged a walkout from the press gallery in the National Assembly in a protest over the remarks of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer who bad-mouthed the media in a press conference. Journalists ended their protest after Information Minister Sherry Rehman apologised on behalf of the federal government. Reaffirming the government’s commitment […]
Four Journalists were manhandled by demonstrators in a political rally representatives of Awami national Party (ANP) at different places in Karachi on Friday February 20, 2009. Awami National party (ANP) organised a sit in front of Jung newspaper on February 20 to protest against lack of coverage of their news in the newspaper. The ANP […]
LAHORE: Transmissions of a local news channel were jammed in Gujrat on Thursday after it aired live coverage of the city police roughing up students of Government Zamindara College, a private TV channel reported. Sources said the channel’s transmission was jammed on Thursday evening by the provincial government. But Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah denied […]
Karachi: Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Sindh Sultan Sallahuddin Babar Khattak took notice of a robbery at the residence of Xari Jalil,a female reporter of The News, directed the CCPO Karachi on Tuesday to ensure the immediate arrest of the criminals and recovered the looted goods. The dacoits entered the house of the journalist and robbed […]
BAHAWALNAGAR, Jan 26: Unidentified people injured a student leader-cum-journalist at the canteen of local government college on Sunday night. The police have arrested one of the suspects and are conducting raids to arrest his accomplices. Sajjad Haider Wattoo, who is senior vice-president of MSF’s Punjab chapter, and correspondent of Daily Express, was taken to DHQ […]
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