MULTAN (November 17 2007): Caretaker Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro should lift ban from all private television channels as a gesture of goodwill and he should also lift emergency and restrictions on the media, said the protesting journalists here on Friday. Journalists’ protest against imposition of emergency and restrictions on the media entered its 8th […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Union of Journalists (KHUJ) demanded on Friday that the government lift the emergency, withdraw curbs on the media and reinstate the judges. The KHUJ demands came at its general body meeting held on Friday at the Peshawar Press Club. KHUJ President Jan Afzal and Peshawar Press Club President Muhammad Riaz briefed the […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Nov 16: Journalists staged a protest demonstration here on Friday at the press club and observed token hunger strike against restrictions on media and imposition of emergency. The journalists later observed token hunger strike for three hours in courtyard of the press club. Journalists took out rallies in Mehar and Sehwan towns on […]
Sindh High Court has asked the deputy attorney general as to why the transmission of Geo TV channels is not being restored while all such other channels have been allowed to air their transmission. The court was hearing two identical petitions filed by Independent Media Corporation and Bird (Pvt)Ltd against the ban on transmission of […]
Calling the ban on Geo an action against the freedom of expression of all Pakistanis, Sindh’s nationalist parties have presented their tribute to the Geo management who refused to bow before censorship. Ghinwa Bhutto, Chairperson Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto), said that the action of the government against the media was a repetition of its […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists on Friday staged a protest demonstration against the imposition of emergency and restrictions on media at Aabpara. Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) organised the event. Numerous social workers and students also joined the protest. Ansar Burney, a minister in the caretaker setup, and Senator Illyas Bilour attended the protest. The participants held placards […]
KARACHI: Television channels were banned from beaming into Pakistan as they were involved in a tirade against the armed forces of Pakistan and were jeopardizing national interests and assets while sitting in Dubai, submitted Deputy Attorney General Rizwan Ahmed Siddiqui before a division bench of the Sindh High Court Friday. Appearing for the federal government […]
* TV journalist says govt pressuring channel to fire some journalists * Foreign TV executives and editors back censored Pakistani TV PESHAWAR: International media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has slammed the government for making self-censorship a criterion to lift a ban on private TV news channels that will drop talk-show programmes critical of President […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The Geo television network said on Friday that it had been ordered to shut down its news channel. The channel beams its signals from Dubai. Late on Friday night, a spokesman for the ARY network called Dawn’s Karachi and Lahore offices, saying that the group had been told to shut down its […]
ISLAMABAD: Geo News, Pakistan’s premier Urdu news channel, also seen round the world as the main source of news and current affairs, was shut down at 1 a.m. Pakistan time (12 midnight Dubai time) after President Pervez Musharraf put tremendous pressure to silence a media outlet which had refused to bow down to his dictates. […]
SUKKUR: Sukkur Union of Journalists (SUJ) President Lala Asad Pathan said that he and the media of Sukkur were ready to face the worst in order to safe guard the freedom of press, rule of law and constitution. He said this while addressing a protest meeting of the media at Sukkur Press Club on Thursday, […]
KARACHI, Nov 15: Speakers at a seminar on the imposition of emergency and media curbs urged the journalist community, legal fraternity and members of all other civil society organisations to launch a joint struggle for the restoration of democracy and the constitution as it stood before the Oct 12, 1999 coup staged by Gen Pervez […]
GUJRANWALA, Nov 15: The Gujranwala Union of Journalists on Thursday organised a hunger strike camp at the press club, demanding that the government end ban on private television channels and remove restrictions on the print media. Speaking on the occasion, union leaders criticised the government for silencing the media under the emergency. They said they […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 15: The South Asia Free Media Association (Safma) has condemned the curbs imposed on the media and termed the new ‘code of conduct’ issued by the government as ‘ridiculous’. Participants of a meeting held by the NWFP chapter of Safma at the Peshawar Press Club on Thursday condemned the blocking of electronic news […]
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