Justice Azizullah Memon of the Sindh High Court on Friday extended till August 6 the stay order against the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) order banning the broadcast of BBC news bulletins by a local radio channel FM-103. Pemra had recently banned airing news produced by BBC on FM-103, which was challenged in the SHC. […]
Journalists of district Badin held a protest demonstration against the arrest of the Bureau Chief of Sindhi Roz-Nama Awaz newspaper, in front of the Badin Press Club. According to details, more than twenty journalists took part in this rally. Haroon Gopang, Raziq Khooso said journalists have to face consequences in telling the truth. He urged […]
ISLAMABAD: Leading journalist and host of a private TV channel Khalil Malik received serious injuries after he was subjected to violence by the lawyers in the presence of additional session’s judge for writing an analytical column in a local news paper. Khalil Malik had drawn up an analysis about lawyers which was published in a […]
Karachi, July 23 : The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has requested the Sindh High Court to reverse an order issued by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority (PEMRA) forbidding radio station Mast FM103 from broadcasting the BBC World Service’s Urdulanguage programs. According to news reports, PEMRA sent the station a letter on June 25 […]
KARACHI – The recent wave of suicide bombing and the daily debate over ruthless deaths have psychologically distressed the people. The recent wave of the suicide bombing across the country has created panic among citizens and apprehension of being targeted. The citizens along with law enforcement personnel are avoiding close contact to any suspicious man. […]
On 18 July 2007, police stopped two senior journalists and a cameraman from entering the North Waziristan Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan that border Afghanistan. Dr. Shahid Masood, the host of a locally popular TV show, and Rahimullah Yusufzai, the executive editor of “The News” in Peshawar, were en route […]
KARACHI (July 19 2007): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has selected Secretary General of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Mazhar Abbas, for the ‘International Press Freedom Award’. A statement issued here on Wednesday said the 17th Annual International Press Freedom Awards (IPFA), would be presented at a dinner ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel […]
S.M. Hali The gory account of the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa complex has been covered, discussed and analysed so thoroughly by my media colleagues that it leaves little to be added. However, one aspect that needs to be highlighted in the context of the recent episode is that of “conflict reporting”. The revolution in information technology, […]
RAWALPINDI – Despite tall claims of City District Government and Cantonment authorities to scale down the size of huge billboards hovering all over the city posing serious threat to life and property of the people. Taking serious notice of the situation Corps Commander Rawalpindi had called a meeting of both the heads of City District […]
LAHORE – There was a time when the cinemas were closing down or turning into theatres for stage plays. Now the reverse trend has begun and the latest to come back in the fold of cinema industry is Alfalah theatre, which would screen Bollywood flick ‘Awarapan’ from 20th of this month. In year 2000 Alfalah […]
ISLAMABAD, July 12: The government on Thursday stopped the reporter and the cameraman of the US-based CNN (Cable News Network) television channel from entering the Lal Masjid complex, which was opened to the media for the first time after the military operation against militants. A government source told Dawn that CNN was denied access to […]
ISLAMABAD, July 11: The government said on Wednesday that army commandos had wiped out all militant resistance in IslamabadÂ’s Lal Masjid compound after an eight-day operation, but withheld from the media some vital information about the civilian casualty toll. A witness, who had access to the two buildings, told Dawn of having seen piles of […]
ISLAMABAD (July 11 2007): Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has served a show-cause notice to an FM radio asking it to explain why penalty should not be imposed for flouting the code of conduct. The code of conduct says that no programme shall be aired which is likely to encourage and incite violence or […]
The authorities on Tuesday barred journalists from visiting all major hospitals in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The decision was apparently aimed at preventing the journalists from assessing the exact number of causalities in the operation against the Lal Masjid militants. Most of the injured people were rushed to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Rawalpindi. Private […]
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