The Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) under schedule announced by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) set-up a protest camp at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on its second phase of media movement that formally started on Monday. Different political party leaders, NGOs, trade unionists, lawyers and other groups of civil society visited the […]
Several human rights activists and members of the People’s Resistance staged a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Monday against curbs on the media and detention of lawyers and political activists since the imposition of emergency rule. They chanted slogans and demanded that Advocate Munir A Malik, who is admitted to PIMS Islamabad and […]
LAHORE, Nov 26: Scores of lawyers and civil society activists participated in a candlelit march from the Lahore Press Club to the offices of GEO Television on Monday evening. At the stalls put up outside the GEO office, the participants carrying torches, placards and banners, raised slogans against President Pervez Musharraf, imposition of emergency, suspension […]
Journalists will stage a sit-in outside the Jang office against curbs on the media and closure of TV channel Geo on Sunday (today), announced KUJ President Shamim-ur-Rahman at a sit-in at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on the first day of second phase of the media movement which started on Saturday. Journalists staged a sit-in […]
PESHAWAR: Continuing its protest drive, the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) on Saturday staged a protest rally against the imposition of emergency and curbs on the media. KhUJ President Jan Afzal and Peshawar Press Club President Muhammad Riaz led the protesters. The rally that was taken out from the Peshawar Press Club turned into a […]
What is it that the press is paying for? Why is it that the government continues to train its guns on the media and is in a mood to teach them a lesson. The Pakistani press has been fiercely independent more so because of the extended years it has spent fighting against dictatorship and the […]
KARACHI (November 25 2007): On the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) in collaboration with the Karachi Press Club (KPC) observed a sit-in outside the KPC, here on Saturday. Journalists belonging to both KUJs (Burna and Dastori), CPNE, ATJ and other bodies attended the protest. Journalists were carrying […]
KARACHI: Almost 80 percent of sites for billboards on Shahrah-e-Faisal have been sold by the Local Taxes Department (CDGK) even though this main artery was meant to be hoarding free. The department arranged an auction at CDGK headquarters Civic Center last week for the 75 sites on both sides of Shahrah-e-Faisal from the airport to […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists on Saturday continued protest against the curbs on media and demanded freedom of press, as access to information is one of the fundamental rights. Journalists arranged a sit-in in front of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club on a call of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ). Civil society activists, lawyers and students joined the protest to […]
MIRPURKHAS – A senior journalist and correspondent of daily Mirpurkhas, Zubair Ahmad Mujahid, was shot dead by unknown assailants, when he was on his way to house at Satellite Town along with his colleague photographer Wahid Pahalwani on the bike near Marhaba Lawn at scheme no 11, Satellite town here on late Friday from the […]
Owners of at least 60 shops dealing in CDs, VCSs and other ‘objectionable’ items closed their business in the Karkhano Bazaar on the Torkham Road, Peshawar after they received warnings from militants. The Karkhano Bazaar, having some 25 plazas, is famous for smuggled foreign goods. According to shopkeepers, they had received threatening letters in October […]
PESHAWAR (November 24 2007): The local journalists on Friday kept up their protest against curbs on free media imposed with the declaration of the state of emergency in Pakistan by the army chief to shut the mouth of the dissent in the country. The journalists of the provincial metropolis under the banner of the Khyber […]
PESHAWAR: Continuing their protest on the 12th consecutive day against curbs on the media and promulgation of emergency in the country, journalists on the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) staged a protest demonstration here on Friday. Chanting slogans for the freedom of press and against what they called the dictatorial steps of […]
The curbs on media and the closure of Pakistani news channels, particularly Geo television network and ARY, by the Musharraf-led government have not only antagonised millions of viewers in the world but also shocked top US and other western diplomats in Pakistan. Nobody expected such a decision by a regime which had been taking the […]
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