ARY and Geo TV channels have been wrapped up in Dubai due to immense pressure by the government of Pakistan. These channels have been ordered to shut down their businesses and transmissions by the authorities of the concerned country from where it was aired. I am very worried by the direct foreign intervention in the […]
The fact is that even the mainstream opposition parties, PPP and PMLN are not too accepting of an independent judiciary or media. They may be supporting the judiciary and media right now, for pragmatic reasons, but once in power, their attitudes might not remain consistent General Musharraf’s imposition of emergency and crackdown on the judiciary, […]
Newspaper editors’ national body Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has said free media and free and fair elections are impossible under the emergency rule and demanded immediate end to emergency and ban on Geo and ARY news channels. CPNE made these demands by passing unanimous resolutions in a meeting in Lahore, jointly presided over […]
(New York, November 20, 2007) – The Dubai government should allow Geo Television and ARY Digital, which broadcast from Dubai and function as Pakistan’s most independent and respected television stations, to resume operations immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 17, the Dubai authorities summarily gave Geo Television and ARY Digital two hours to […]
SENIOR academicians related to media studies, representatives of students’ movement at LUMS and different student organisations on Monday denounced the government for shutting down Geo TV network and termed the act a blatant attack on people’s right of access to information. Calling the move a severe blow to budding electronic media industry in Pakistan, they […]
PESHAWAR: Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), a Paris-based media watchdog, is shocked at the murder of the widow of Hayatullah Khan, a journalist slain last year. She was killed in the early hours of Saturday by a bomb planted next to her bedroom outside her home in Mir Ali, North Waziristan. Her five children, aged 2 […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists throughout the country continued their protest Sunday against shutting down of Geo TV and ARY Digital as well as curbs on the media. Hundreds of journalists, members of civil society, students, political workers and human rights activists gathered in Islamabad and chanted slogans against the ban on the TV channels. Addressing the protest […]
ISLAMABAD (November 19 2007): Journalists, members of civil society, human rights and political activists continued on Sunday protest against ban on two independent news TV channels as well as curbs on media. Journalists condemned the murder of the widow of a slain tribal journalist who was killed in a bomb attack in the tribal region […]
KARACHI: “What has happened is ridiculous,” says Shakeel, who owns a shop in Saddar. “I was saddened initially to see that the news channels have been taken off air, but I had hopes that they would be restored soon.” The banning of two most important TV networks in Pakistan has not only come as a […]
DUBAI: Media authorities in Dubai say they are considering whether to allow two leading private Pakistani news channels to resume broadcasting after shutting them down the day before. “We are in contact with them… to see if there is a possibility to (allow them to) resume” broadcasting, Amina Rustamani, head of Dubai’s media watchdog said. […]
TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 17: Journalists held a protest meeting on Saturday to condemn the government for shutting down Geo and ARY news channels. A joint meeting of the district press club and district union of journalists was held in the press club with its president Mian Manzoor Naz in the chair. Speaking on the […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 17: Journalists on Saturday took out a procession from the Peshawar Press Club to denounce the latest assault on the electronic media, including the closure of some news TV channels. Carrying placards inscribed with slogans against the military rulers, the protesters marched up to The Mall. However, police stopped them from heading towards […]
KARACHI, Nov 17: In an emergency meeting of the Board of Directors held in Karachi on Saturday, the Pakistan Broadcasters Association expressed its complete solidarity with its member channels ARY and Geo. In a press release issued here, the PBA condemned the Dubai Media City (DMC) for blocking transmissions of Pakistani channels and termed it […]
* Closure termed ‘worst communication blackout’ in history KARACHI/ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA: Five Geo TV journalists were arrested for protesting in Quetta on Saturday, as journalists throughout the country condemned the government’s orders to shut down Geo News and ARY. Geo TV’s Quetta bureau confirmed the arrests of their journalists, adding that they were not aware of […]
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