LAHORE: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Chairman Mushtaq Malik said on Sunday that private TV channels could only telecast election results posted outside polling stations by presiding officers. Geo News reported that PEMRA officials had also amended the notice issued Saturday night that banned TV channels from making comments, reporting, and conducting discussions on […]
Threats and censorship against the independent media, bias in state television, and a widespread ban on live broadcasting are limiting the public’s right to information as Pakistan goes to the polls, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent curbs on the media prohibit coverage of election rallies, live call-ins, live talk shows, live coverage of protests, […]
KARACHI: Speakers at the launch of a new Urdu daily by the name of ‘Aaj Kal’, belonging to the ‘Daily Times’ group, stressed the need for a modern, progressive, liberal paper with a forward-looking and optimistic outlook in these times of stress, strain, violence and religious extremism. Editor-in-Chief Najam Sethi recalled how when ‘Daily Times’ […]
KARACHI: There is more to life than what other local Urdu newspapers report. “Unfortunately, they have not been able to maintain quality and I hope that ‘Aaj Kal’ will fill in the gaps,” said Mishi Khan during the launch of ‘Aaj Kal’, a new Urdu daily newspaper, in Karachi Thursday. IBA Associate Professor and international […]
KARACHI, Feb 12: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday disposed of all three petitions challenging the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Ordinance after the Pemra counsel informed the court that the ordinance had lapsed and no action was pending or could be taken under it. The petitions were moved by Sindh Bar Council members Mustafa […]
LAHORE: The Media Times (Pvt) Ltd, following the success of Daily Times, has launched its Urdu newspaper Aaj Kal, with the intention to raise another for a progressive and modern Pakistan. The launch was announced at a ceremony held at Royal Palm Club on Monday, with former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as chief guest. […]
Speakers have said that impartiality, objectivity and honesty should be the benchmark for journalists covering the forthcoming polls. They were speaking at a workshop on “Covering the Election 2008”, jointly organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) and Association of Television Journalists (ATJ) in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) at a local hotel […]
Dr Abdus Samad Chishti Mujahid, photojournalists and a columnist working for the Urdu language weekly “Akhbar-e-Jehan”, was fatally shot on February 9, by a gunman in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan province of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. He was 55. Dr. Mujahid was shot as he was coming out of his house with his wife. […]
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), has strongly condemned the murder of a journalist working for the Weekly, Akbar-e-Jehan, Chisti Mujhaid, in broad daylight in Quetta on Saturday morning, and demanded immediate arrest of the killer. According to details collected from Quetta, Mujahid was killed as he came from his residence by an unidentified […]
RELIGIOUS leaders have strongly condemned the police torture and victimisation of two senior journalists, namely Mahboob Hiraj, edition incharge of The News and the News on Sunday reporter Aoun Sahi, terming it a reflection of rulersà dictatorial policies to suppress the freedom of media. They have also demanded immediate retribution against the police officers involved […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 6: The government on Wednesday took off air for a second time the Aaj news channel, a network official said. The channel suddenly vanished from cable networks in Islamabad and several other cities while it was airing Live with Talat, a popular politics and current affairs talk show, Tariq Chaudhry, Islamabad bureau chief […]
PESHAWAR, Feb 6: A local English daily has received a threatening letter asking its staff to “correct themselves” within five days, otherwise they will be blown up. A senior staffer of the newspaper, The Frontier Times, told Dawn that an envelope containing the one-page letter was thrown inside the office, located in Gulbahar, on Feb […]
HYDERABAD, Feb 2: Federal Information Minister Nisar Memon has warned television channels of a reprise of the Nov 3 action if they “continue to flout” the Pemra regulations. “I urge these TV channels to abide by articles of their licence as they have pledged not to violate them. It would have been better had the […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: A government spokesman has termed as “factually incorrect and unfortunate” a statement by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) criticising President Pervez Musharraf’s remarks in response to a question by Dawn’s London correspondent Mohammad Ziauddin. The spokesman said that “at no point in time had President Musharraf instigated people to violence […]
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