Peshawar: The famous TV artist, Arshad Hussain, who was kidnapped on October 02, demanded of the international organizations to provide him asylum as he was feeling insecure in Pakistan. He stated this, while addressing a news conference in Peshawar here on Monday. Flanked by chairman Pakistan artistes’ association NWFP, Ijaz Mir, Ishrat Abas, Dr. Ikram […]
KARACHI (October 13 2008): Clash between two political groups in local college left seven injured including Aaj Tv reporter Osama and camera man Farhan Soomro here on Sunday. According to Aaj TV report, injuries took place after exchange of firing in a clash at a Swedish College, Quaidabad. The injured were taken to the Jinnah […]
QUETTA: An Urdu newspaper journalist “disappeared” on Monday from the Pakistan-Iran border town of Taftan — the second journalist from the same paper to have gone missing in a week. Muhammad Asif Baloch, editor of Quetta-based Daily Azadi, said Hameed Baloch’s family had said he was abducted. “No one knows about his whereabouts but one […]
THATTA, Sept 25: A DawnNews reporter and two villagers suffered injuries when some people believed to be supporters of former MPA Ghulam Qadir Palijo snatched the camera of the TV team at what has been described as disputed land in Makli necropolis on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said that the Karachi-based DawnNews reporter, Abid Hassan, and his […]
ISLAMABAD: Mumtaz Alam Gillani, member national assembly (PPP) on Monday strongly contradicted a news item appearing in a section of the press on September 21 that he was witness to a US embassy white truck carrying steel boxes, which were unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott hotel. Mumtaz Alam Gillani told APP that this was […]
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Information and Technology Federal Secretary Akram Shaheedi has said the Freedom of Information Act is going to be revised according to the demands of freedom of media and the democracy. In an exclusive interview with The Post, he said the role of Information and Broadcasting Ministry was not that of a regulator […]
World has become extremely insecure while some professions are directly in the line of fire. Reporting from conflict zone is exclusively a task to cost life. In each incident of terrorism, media men are facing certain lethal hits. Exposure to abuses like antagonism, restrictions, bars or censorship are expected but on duty media men has […]
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Press Gallery Committee President and senior reporter The Post Zaheer Shehzad escaped a life attempt when two unknown motorcyclists opened fire on him, subjected him to torture and escaped. According to details, Zaheer with his family members was returning home after taking his children from school when two persons on a motorcycle […]
On 14 September 2008, a group of about 50 armed men attacked the Shahpur Jehanian Press Club, of Tehsil Daulatpur, in Nawabshah District of Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh. The attackers beat and abducted four journalists and took physical control of the press club. Among those assaulted were: Manthar Dahiri, correspondent of the daily newspaper […]
Doctor, Mediamen injured in Services Hospital protest LAHORE- Two media persons and a doctor of the Services Hospital sustained injuries on September 12 as a result of a scuffle over the coverage of medical tests being conducted in the hospital for the applicants for employment in police department. Around 700 to 800 candidates for the […]
ISLAMABAD: A furious Inspector General of Balochistan Police Asif Nawaz apparently had a nervous breakdown on Wednesday when he shouted at this reporter for filing a series of stories in this newspaper to keep the horrible issue of burial of five women alive for the last three weeks. The tone of IG Nawaz, who made […]
PESHAWAR: When Musa Khankhel, The News and Geo TV correspondent in Swat, was manhandled recently by personnel of the security forces, it was not something unusual for Swati journalists who were facing threats and intimidation by Taliban militants, members of the intelligence agencies, men in uniform and other pressure groups. Two journalists in Swat have […]
Abdul Aziz Shaheen, a local journalist working for local dailies “Azadi “and “Khabarkar” in the troubled district of Swat in the NWFP province of Pakistan, was killed on August 29, in an attack by jet fighters on a Taliban hideout, where he was being held by the Taliban. Shaheen had gone to Peuchar area of […]
KARACHI, Aug 26: An anchor and reporter of the DawnNews was detained for six hours by sleuths of an intelligence agency on Monday and was released after rigorous interrogations. The sleuths kept his cell phone having 500 contact numbers and family pictures and tape containing interview of Ballach Marri Hasan Abdullah was driving to office […]
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