Karachi Nov. 29 (PPI): The Second Annual PPF-Aslam Ali Press Freedom Award 2007 was awarded on November 28, 2007 to Mukesh Rupeta, correspondent in Jacobabad of The News and “Geo TV”. The award, instituted by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), with support of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognises a person, organisation or […]
ISLAMABAD – Journalists’ protest against curbs on free media continued on Tuesday as hundreds of media persons and civil rights activists staged a protest demonstration in front of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club. ‘Fight for independent media will never cease’, ‘we never accept black laws’, were the slogans chanted by enraged journalists. To exhibit their solidarity […]
HYDERABAD, Nov 27: The Hyderabad press club set up a protest camp on the footpath of the club road to condemn the ban on private TV channels and Pemra ordinance. A large number of journalists, led by the press club president Khalid Khokhar, vice president Hameedur Rehman, Iqbal Mallah and others staged a sit-in at […]
ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): Senate acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali and Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad have extended warm felicitations to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) with the feeling that the success of these editors in the election would help to further improve and strengthen government-media relations. […]
ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): Senate acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali and Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad have extended warm felicitations to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) with the feeling that the success of these editors in the election would help to further improve and strengthen government-media relations. […]
PESHAWAR (November 28 2007): Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) Tuesday set up a protest camp against curbs on media imposed by the government after imposition of emergency in the country on November 3. The curbs imposed after bringing amendments in the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and Press and Publication Ordinance (PPO) to gag […]
Minhaj Barna, who is regarded as among the pioneers of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) and the Pakistan Federation of Union of Journalists (PFUJ), now has an Urdu poetry book to his credit. The collection, titled Marssiya Chauthay Sutoon ka describes the tragedy of those who face with a dictatorship in their country. Although, […]
KARACHI, Nov 27: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a petition against the suspension of Geo TV channels’ transmission to Thursday for detailed arguments. The petition was briefly taken up by a reconstituted division bench consisting of Justices Munib Ahmed Khan and Rana M. Shamim (who replaced Justice A.R. Farooq Pirzada). […]
KARACHI: Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rizwan Ahmed Siddiqui said on Tuesday that no written order was issued for the suspension of Geo TV channels. Responding to the arguments filed by Geo TV counsel Muhammad Ali Mazhar advocate, the DAG stated this before the Sindh High Court during the hearing of two constitutional petitions filed by […]
KARACHI, Nov 27: A local FM radio station is on the verge of a permanent closure as the authorities have not yet returned its broadcast equipment, which were seized hours after the imposition of emergency rule on Nov 3 by President General Pervez Musharraf. According to an FM-103 official, due to the seizure of the […]
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 27: Highwaymen on Tuesday gunned down a journalist when he was on his way home with his wife on a motorcycle near Dera City/Choti Zaireen in Sadar police precincts. The criminals shot Zulfiqar Changwani, who worked for a national daily, when he refused to stop on their signal. Later, they fled […]
PESHAWAR/MINGORA: After suffering colossal losses, the militants in restive Swat vacated all the seized police stations and other government buildings on Tuesday and decided to go underground while the government closed down all the FM radio channels in the district, including the one run by Maulana Fazlullah. Also, in the adjoining Shangla district, the security […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: The government will revoke some clauses of the ordinance promulgated by President Gen Pervez Musharraf hours after the imposition of emergency to restrict freedom of the print media and withdraw cases registered against journalists. The assurance was given by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Nisar Memon to representatives of the Pakistan Federal […]
After eight years mismanaging Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state faced with the demon of extremist violence, General Pervez Musharraf wants to stick around for another five, this time in the guise of a so-called civilian president. To that end, he has broken every conceivable principle of law, manipulated politics and wrecked hopes for a free election. […]
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