PESHAWAR: The NWFP Bar Council Sunday announced holding a province-wide boycott of the superior as well as subordinate judiciary today (Monday) in protest against Pakistan Bar Council’s decision of suspending the licence of a lawyers’ leader, Abdul Lateef Afridi. The council termed the decision of the PBC as illegal and unconstitutional, adding it was aimed […]
KARACHI: The Sindh government has imposed a ban on circulation of the newspaper Weekly Zarbe Momin, Karachi and Daily Islam, Karachi in the province, an official handout said on Friday. According to the handout the government has ordered that all copies in circulation should be forfeited. “The weekly Zarbe Momin Karachi and Daily Islam contain […]
A Japanese journalist and his Afghan colleague were shot and wounded on November 14 in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s restive North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Motoki Yotsukura, Islamabad Bureau Chief, of Japan’s “Asahi Shimbun” newspaper, and Afghan journalist Sami Yousufzai, correspondent of “Newsweek” were attacked by three gunmen in Peshawar neighborhood of Hayatabad near […]
A correspondent working for a private television channel and an Urdu language daily was shot dead in the town of Mianwali in Pakistan’s largest province of the Punjab. Abdul Razzaq Johara, correspondent of Royal TV and Daily “Sahafat” was shot dead by two drug peddlers, Muhammad Riaz and Muhammad Munir on November 3, 2008 for […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: Journalists covering the Senate proceedings on Monday staged a token walkout to register their anguish and resentment against the death of a colleague at the hands security forces in Swat. The government and opposition lawmakers shared in the mourning for Qari Mohammad Shoaib, 32, who was working for an Urdu-language newspaper, and […]
MINGORA, Nov 9: A journalist was killed after security forces personnel allegedly fired on his vehicle while he was returning home from a hospital on Saturday night. The death of Qari Shoaib, who worked for an Urdu newspaper, sparked protests and local journalists held a demonstration on Sunday. Qari Shoaib was returning home from the […]
Activists of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) besieged Aaj TV (a private TV channel) offices in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, on November 07 against the alleged use of ‘indecent words’ against their chief Dr Tahirul Qadri in one of its programmes. The News Incharge of the channel, Aslam Dogar told PPF that their hosts, Mushtaq […]
PESHAWAR: Students, who were protesting against the death of their fellow in a road accident, here on Friday manhandled a Daily Times photographer and tried to snatch his camera when he was taking photographs of their protest demonstration. Protesting against the death of their fellow, enraged students set the bus (which, according to police, crushed […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Journalists of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Wednesday asked the government to refrain from imposing curbs on media and ensure implementation of 7th wage award. To protest November 3, 2007 sanctions imposed on media by the former president General Pervez Musharraf, scores of journalists of the twin cities staged ‘Determination Day rally, which […]
KARACHI, Oct 21: There has been no headway in the kidnapping of Satish Anand, a prominent filmmaker and distributor, as the victim remained untraced for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. A joint team of the Anti-violent Crime Unit of the city police and the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee was constituted to investigate the kidnapping of […]
KARACHI – Secretary General of Council of Newspapers Editors (CPNE) Khushnood Ali Khan has condemned explosion at the offices of Daily A warn and Daily Tijarat, Quetta situated in the building of Universal Complex and demanded of the government to take practical steps for giving due protection to newspapers offices. The offices of Daily Atemad, […]
Two journalists, including a photojournalist, received minor injuries on October 20 when a bomb went off outside the offices of local newspapers in Quetta, the capital city of PakistanÂ’s southern province of Balochistan that borders Afghanistan. The bomb which was planted in a gas geyser, exploded around 4:00 PM, shattered window panes in nearby buildings […]
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Police officials deployed at the red-zone area manhandled a journalist of the Pakistan Television on the pretext of security clearance on Sunday night. The victim — a PTV news editor — seeking anonymity told Dawn that the police officials deployed at the Constitution Avenue near PTV stopped him and his colleague for […]
LAHORE, Oct 20: The SSP (operations) has suspended from service four constables and issued them show-cause notices for allegedly torturing a photojournalist of a local TV channel. Constables Sajid Ali, Mansab Ali, Muhammad Jehangir and Irshad Ahmed of the Shalimar police station had stopped Muhammad Usman on the GT Road for a routine checking at […]
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