• January 30, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

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 […]

• January 28, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

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 […]

• January 27, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

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 […]

• January 27, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

MIRPURKHAS, Jan 26: Police lodged a case on Monday against Ms Zahida Detho, coordinator of NGOs Network, rights activist Kanji Rano Bheel and Abdul Rehman Rind, a reporter of a Sindhi daily “Kawish” among others on a complaint lodged by Thakur Nazeer Kaimkhani, a landlord who was accused by the above-mentioned persons of running a […]

• January 26, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

Karachi: A sub Editor of Dawn was robbed of his cellphone and wallet by two bandits near Urdu Bazar. Asif Ali Khan was on his way to the office when at 7: 50pm two bandits held him hostage at gunpoint and deprived him of his belongings. Source: Dawn Date:1/26/2009

• January 25, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

By Mudassir Raja RAWALPINDI, Jan 24: Unknown assailants gunned down a senior journalist here on Saturday, drawing condemnation from representatives of the journalist community who urged the law enforcers to arrest the killers. In his complaint to Waris Khan police, Kamal Azfar, the brother of the deceased, Amir Wakeel, 40, stated that his brother was […]

• January 20, 2009
• Freedom of Expression, News Archives

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Sherry Rehman on Monday denied reports that alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari had made derogatory remark about journalists. The information minister told the National Assembly that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government believed in the right of freedom of expression, adding that Zardari considered the media important for a true democratic […]

• January 15, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

NOWSHERA, Jan 14: A group of armed militants blew up fourteen shops, most of them CDs centres, in a series of explosions at three main markets of sensitive Hakeemabad area in Nowshera cantonment in the small hours of Wednesday. Eight shops were destroyed completely while six others damaged partially in series of three blasts with […]

• January 14, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

ISLAMABAD- Authorities of PML-N on Tuesday stopped the Waqt TV news team from the coverage of N-League Quaid Nawaz Sharif’s press conference held in the Punjab House. It is learnt that Special Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Pervez Rashid invited six private TV channels for the coverage of PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif’s press conference in […]

• January 14, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

BADIN: Two reporters have been looted by unidentified armed men at Golarchi in the superb of Badin. As per detail, three unidentified armed men made hostages two reporters of a private news channel at Golarchi and snatched their cameras, mobile sets, cash and motorcycle at gunpoint. After committing the robbery, the armed men managed to […]

• January 13, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

QUETTA: The TV boaster office building damages, on Monday, in Qaziabad area of district Nushki, some 140km away from here. According to the report some unidentified people threw an explosive device on the building of Intelligence Bureau (IB) office, which also damaged the wall of the TV boaster office building. Source: The Nation Date:1/13/2009

• January 13, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

PESHAWAR: Pushto stage and drama artist Alamzeb Mujahid was abducted from Peshawar’s Hayatabad area on Monday, Artists Welfare Association President Tariq Jamal told Daily Times. Jamal said Alamzeb was abducted from outside his house at around 12:30pm on Monday. He said the association was trying to locate Alamzeb, adding they had not sought police assistance […]

• January 10, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

MARDAN: A powerful blast at the Nehar Chowk area destroyed a CD centre and some other shops on Friday morning. Police said that a local-made bomb was planted near a CD shop owned by Imtiaz Khan at the Nehar Chowk, Par Hoti, which went off in the morning, destroying the CD centre and some other […]

• January 6, 2009
• Freedom of Expression

PESHAWAR, Jan 5: The house of Dawn’s correspondent in Shakardarra in Swat has been blown up and no group or individual has claimed responsibility. People of Shakardarra village in Matta tehsil were asked to leave their homes last week when security forces launched an operation in the area against militants. When people were allowed to […]