ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Print and electronic media personnel all over Pakistan vowed on Sunday to protect media freedom and to continue their struggle for rights. They marked Sunday as black day and organised peaceful protest rallies in the federal capital and in various cities and towns in the Punjab, Sindh and the NWFP to condemn […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Six cases have been registered against lawyers, opposition activists and journalists in different police stations for allegedly attempting to kidnap MNA Dr Farooq Sattar, violating section 144, and attacking the motorcade of Punjab chief minister, the minister of state for information and the police.” In the first FIR, the police have booked […]
ISLAMABAD: The journalist community took out rallies and observed black day across the country on Sunday to protest the thrashing of their colleagues at the Constitution Avenue by security forces personnel in full glare of local and foreign media. Speakers at these rallies condemned state repression against journalists and lawyers and demanded stern action against […]
KARACHI, Sept 30: Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmad has said that a review petition will be filed in the Supreme Court against the acceptance of President General Pervez Musharraf’s candidature for re-election. Justice Ahmad, who is the presidential candidate of the lawyers’ community, was speaking at the Karachi Press Club on Sunday afternoon. Later, he briefly […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Islamabad saw a dreadful day of police wrath on Saturday that marred General Pervez Musharraf’s march towards election for another presidential term. The capital went through one of its worst police violence targeting lawyers and journalists, many of whom were injured and hospitalised, as the president scored his second legal victory in […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Over two dozens journalists covering the events on the day of scrutiny of nomination papers of the presidential candidates were injured when the personnel of law enforcement agencies resorted to teargas and baton-charge on them outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in an effort to clear the way for movements of […]
ISLAMABAD: Authorities on Saturday temporarily suspended the transmission of independent news TV channels to stop the coverage of opposition rallies here on Saturday against the president’s re-election plan, private TV channels and subscribers said. Police fired tear gas shells and beat protesting lawyers and political activists who staged demonstrations in Islamabad to protest against President […]
I fully condemn the recent abduction and detention of a journalist working for a private news channel. This act is disgusting, shameful and beyond all norms of a civil society. It seems that Pakistan is being ruled by intelligence agencies who can pick up anyone with impunity and without fear of accountability. I urge the […]
ISLAMABAD: The journalist community of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi has strongly protested the Election Commission decision of barring the entry and access of private print and electronic media in the vicinity of the Commission during the filing of papers for the presidential election by the candidates. According to a press release the […]
IT IS time for the media to take stock of its performance. This need for introspection applies to all media outlets but more so to the television channels, for they reach millions as opposed to the thousands who read newspapers and thus play a critical role in influencing public opinion. It is important to ask […]
ISLAMABAD – Security personnel in plain clothes locked the Waqt TV team in Parliament Lodges for covering the arrest scene of PML-N acting President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi. The security people raided Hashmi’s apartment in the Parliament Lodges when the Waqt TV reporting team consisting of reporter Hasnain Ghayoor and cameraman Asim Qureshi was interviewing the […]
IT IS a matter of great concern that journalists continue to face tremendous risks while doing their job thus belying the government’s claim that the media is free. On Saturday, Babur Hussain, a Dawn News reporter, was picked up by plainclothes men outside his home in Rawalpindi and taken to an unknown location where he […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) has condemned the abduction of a reporter of DawnNews by security agencies and his subsequent release after two days. The RIUJ office-bearers have warned the government that if the abduction of journalists and their torture were not stopped, the journalist community would launch a protest movement against […]
ISLAMABAD: Rawalpindi/Islamabad Press Club on Monday gave a 72-hour ultimatum to the government to bring to books those responsible for thrashing Hassan Shajil, the son of senior journalist, Shakil Ahmad Turabi. Leading a protest in front of the Supreme Court against beating of Hassan Sharjil by clandestine agency operatives and the continuing harassment of Shakil […]
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