Journalists across Pakistan marked today as a Black Day for the country’s media, led by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in protest at the Government’s failure to meet the PFUJ’s deadline for a withdrawal of anti-media ordinances issued by President Pervez Musharraf at the weekend. Anchors on Pakistan television channels that are able […]
KARACHI, Nov 9: The Sindh government has imposed a ban on the entry of journalists into the secretariat after office hours and asked all the departments located in the new and old secretariat buildings not to entertain any journalists after the office timings. According to official sources, these instructions have been issued after the imposition […]
KARACHI: Cable operators and subscribers have been left in the dark after the ban on news channels imposed by the government since last week. Now cable services subscribers are saying that they plan to stop making payments to cable service providers as they are not receiving their desired channels as contracted to them. “When we […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: International news channels BBC and CNN went off the air in the country again on Friday as opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest ahead of a protest rally. Authorities stopped cable operators from broadcasting international and private Pakistani news channels on the weekend, after President Gen Pervez Musharraf imposed […]
In one of my articles I had given the figure that it would take Pakistan 500 years to become a democracy, a democracy not polluted by adjectives but pure and simple democracy. However, as a result of the proclamation of ’emergency plus’, meaning emergency-martial law, I have revised my estimate. Now I can safely presume […]
HOW far the government is willing to go to deny people the right to information was made visible on Wednesday when shops selling satellite dishes were targeted by the police and forced to shut down. In Karachi electronics dealers complained that despite the fact that they possessed all the necessary documents needed to sell such […]
ISLAMABAD (November 09 2007): Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani on Thursday said the government would resolve all issues pertaining to the media through dialogue, taking onboard the working journalists organisations on future developments. Talking to a delegation of working journalists’ organisations, the minister reiterated the government’s resolve that the media freedom […]
KARACHI, Nov 8: Aslam Azhar is something of a man for all seasons. Though he read law at Cambridge and dabbled in writing, radio broadcasting and documentary film-making, he is perhaps best known for his role in guiding Pakistan Television from a pilot set-up in Lahore in 1964 all the way to 1991, when he […]
WASHINGTON: The Voice of America (VOA)’s Urdu Service has expanded its radio news broadcasts from five to 12.5 hours daily in response to the crisis in Pakistan and because of the blackout of private television networks by the government, which has increased radio listening dramatically. “The Pakistani government has shut down all independent media inside […]
LAHORE (PPI) – The advertising business of private channels in Pakistan has diverted to India after imposition of a ban on them in the country under emergency rules. Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) banned the transmission on news and current affairs channels in the country after promulgation of emergency and taking advantage of this […]
The government and its media advisers do not seem to understand that the old tricks of denying the people access to information do not work anymore. If anything, they make the outmoded chicanery the object of public ridicule and loathing. Following Saturday’s proclamation of ’emergency,’ the government ordered the cable operators to block all private […]
THE imposition of the state of Emergency was a wrong card the government played at a critical juncture in the country’s political life. And gagging the media by introducing amendments to the Press and Publications Ordinance and PEMRA Ordinance as an offshoot of the Emergency was, undoubtedly, the worst one. By all counts, it is […]
It’s the fifth day of the emergency, and the situation regarding the media was never as grim as it is today. In the days of Ziaul Haq and Ayub Khan and others, media offices were not threatened with bombings, and owners of media groups didn’t receive warnings of assassination. Among the many controversial assertions he […]
SUKKUR: Sukkur-based journalists belonging to the electronic and print media have demanded immediate withdrawal of emergency rule in the interest of Pakistan and its people through a resolution here on Wednesday. In a meeting held at Sukkur press club, chaired by president Khawaja Jawed Ahmed, the journalists criticised the role of political parties of the […]
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