MARDAN, More than two dozen owners of video shops at a market at Punjab Regiment Centre (PRC) here have decided to quit voluntarily their business but asked the government to give them loans on easy terms so that they can start other businesses acceptable to the local Taliban. President of the audio and video union […]
KHAR, May 22: Unidentified assailants shot dead a correspondent of a private TV channel in Bajaur on Thursday. Witnesses said that five gunmen sprayed Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, a correspondent for the Express television channel and Daily Express, with bullets near Inayat Kali while he was going to his village from Mamond tehsil on a motorcycle. […]
ISLAMABAD (May 20 2008): Three miscreants on Monday attacked an Aaj news channel team at Dhok Hafiz near Airport Chowk. According to a staffer, an Aaj TV channel’s team was on its way to its office in Islamabad after giving coverage to a Lahore High Court Bar Association conference at Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Registry. […]
LANDI KOTAL, May 16: Activists of a newly formed moral brigade — the Ulema Committee — burnt television sets, record players, cassettes and CDs on Friday, which had been seized from local markets and quarters of paramilitary personnel during raids. The burning of music related materials by the committee was the first incident in Landi […]
GHALANAI, May 15: The local Taliban interrupted a music show at a marriage party in the Mail area of the Haleemzai tehsil, four kilometers from here, on Thursday. Tribal elder Zarbash Khan, the father of the bridegroom, was asked to appear before the Taliban on Friday to explain why he had arranged a music show […]
ISLAMABAD – Federal Information Minister Sherry Rehman here on Thursday said that the government was working to amend media-related laws to ensure freedom of expression by taking all stakeholders on board. Speaking at a Media Stakeholders Conference, she said PEMRA laws against media had already been withdrawn and more amendments were in the pipeline to […]
QUETTA: Underground militant organisation Ghazi Abdul Rashid Shaheed Brigade (GARSB) has threatened video shops owners in Quetta to quit their business or “face suicide attacks”. “All music centre owners, cable operators and cinema owners should immediately quit their businesses and seek Allah’s forgiveness otherwise such individuals will be killed and suicide attacks will be carried […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has directed the print and electronic media neither to publish nor telecast any news item in respect of the person of a judge in any capacity, nor display his photograph on TV and in newspapers without proper verification and permission of the registrar of the Court. The orders were issued on […]
KOHAT: A shop selling music CDs was blown up in a bomb explosion Thursday night while several other shops were partially damaged. Eyewitnesses said the Afaq Music Centre, located near KDA Gate was destroyed by the explosion. Source: The News Date:5/9/2008
Some unidentified miscreants blew up a CD shop in Nowshera bazaar late Sunday.Shah Sarwar, owner of the shop, told police that he was informed at about 3am that someone had blown up his shop. Assessing the losses, he said CDs, television and DVDs worth Rs200,000 were reduced to ashes. Source: The News Date:5/6/2008
LAHORE (May 04 2008): Secretary General, South Asia Free Media Association (Safma), Imtiaz Alam has said that media, judiciary and democracy were closely inter linked and restoration of judges would not be possible without democracy and freedom of press mean freedom of expression for all citizens. He said this while addressing a seminar on World […]
LAHORE – President Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and Editor The Nation, Arif Nizami has said that freedom of Press in a country where democracy remained absent for a long time was not below the mark. Our elders like Hameed Nizami (late) played a vigorous role for the freedom of Press and the struggle […]
PESHAWAR: Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ), Khyber Agency Chapter, on Saturday held a rally demanding protection to the working tribal journalists and lifting of curbs on media. The rally was taken out in connection with World Press Freedom Day at historic Bab-e-Khyber in tehsil Jamrud. The rally was led by President of TUJ Khyber Agency […]
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), marked World Press Freedom Day by issuing a report highlighting that none of the nine journalists killed while working in Pakistan in the year to April had received specialist training for reporting in dangerous environments. Nor were they provided […]
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