Hasan Abdullah, an anchor and reporter of Pakistan’s leading television channel “DawnNews” was detained for six hours by agents of an intelligence agency on 26th August and was released after interrogation. The agents kept his cell phone and tape containing interview of Balach Marri, head of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), who was killed in November […]
ATTOCK, Aug 24: After rocking Fata for years, the Taliban announced their entry into Attock on Sunday by blowing up 24 video shops with three bombs in a shopping plaza. No one was killed by their violent action but two of the four persons injured were said to be in critical condition and shifted to […]
PESHAWAR, Aug 3: NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that his government believed in freedom of expression and promised to work for the development of the newspaper industry of the province. In addition to the national press, the regional newspapers were also playing a remarkable role in highlighting the problems of the […]
PESHAWAR, Aug 3: The president of Khyber Agency Journalists Union, Khyal Zaman Afridi, received serious injuries when some armed persons attacked him at Akakhel Area of Bara, Khyber Agency, on Sunday morning. The attackers also kidnapped one of his friends, Mohammad Waseem Niazi, hailing from Lahore, who visited him in Bara in connection with a […]
MUZAFFARGARH, July 30: Internet café, TV cable service and music and CD shops owners in Muzaffargarh have received threatening letters and emails from some ‘Taliban Tehrik Muzaffargarh’ who have warned them to close down their “un-Islamic and immoral” businesses within 15 days or face death. In Kot Addu, Taliban warned those women who do not […]
LAHORE: The government would ensure safety for the management and staff of Daily Times and Daily Aaj Kal, Federal Information Minister Sherry Rehman said in an interview aired on Monday. Talking to ARY One World, Sherry said it was the responsibility of the government to protect and support the two newspapers. Daily Times and Aaj […]
LANDIKOTAL: A local journalist was criticised by the local administration on Thursday for assisting Aaj TV anchor Talat HussainÂ’s visit to Landikotal. Journalists in Landikotal met at the press club to condemn Assistant Political Agent (APA) Ghulam Habib Khan’s misbehaviour with Takbeer Khan for helping with Hussain’s visit. Hussain had arrived in Torkham to interview […]
LAHORE: Civil society representatives, journalists and lawyers protested against intolerance and extremism in the country at the Lahore Press Club on Monday. Dozens of people, carrying placards inscribed with slogans against extremism, intolerance and suicide attacks, attended the protest and shouted slogans against religious rigidity. Joint Action Committee Convener Shahtaj Qazlbash said that a few […]
LAHORE: People should disapprove of intolerance and extremism in society by participating in a demonstration against the twin menaces outside the Lahore Press Club on Monday (today), said Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Director IA Rehman on Sunday. Talking to Daily Times, he said that people from all walks of life should organise and […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists and civil society activists at a seminar on Saturday condemned threats by extremist elements to Daily Aaj Kal and Daily Times and defended the dailies’ editorial policy, besides extending full support to the freedom of expression. The South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) organised a seminar on “Rising Intolerance and Freedom of Expression” […]
PESHAWAR: International press freedom organisation Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) — in a letter to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday — expressed ‘concern’ about the safety of the staff of Urdu daily Aaj Kal. Clerics at the Lal Masjid in Islamabad have repeatedly issued inflammatory statements aimed at the newspaper and its staff. […]
Daily “Aaj Kal”, an Urdu language daily published from Lahore received threats from Islamic activists angered by the publication of a cartoon about Umme Hassaan, wife of Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz and also an editorial criticizing the religious militancy. The Lal Masjid, located in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad, was the […]
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE, July 12: All bodies representing the media have condemned threats given to an Urdu daily by pro-Taliban elements and Lal Masjid clerics over the newspaper’s views on rising extremism and intolerance in the country. In a statement issued here on Saturday, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) termed the threats to […]
WASHINGTON: Largely due to emergency rule last year and the sacking of superior court judges, Pakistan fares badly in Freedom House’s ‘Freedom in the World Report 2008’, notching up low ratings on political rights and civil liberties, in addition to being included among countries considered “not free”. Pakistan scores a rating of 6 in terms […]
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