ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) withdrew on Wednesday its petition from the Supreme Court against the consent orders of Sindh High Court (SHC) for the grant of licence to the Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt) Limited (PHPL) to establish a satellite television broadcast station. Advocate Abdul Rauf, the counsel for Pemra, informed a […]
LAHORE : While holding an enquiry into police torture on journalists and bar members during the demonstration against the suspension of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Syed Zahid Hussain of the Lahore High Court (LHC) directed the Registrar Inquiry to produce the video recording of close circuit TVs installed in the LHC premises. Earlier, the […]
ISLAMABAD: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has announced Award for Journalists 2007 on “Protection of Civilians in Conflicts”, said a press release on Monday. The award is open to all in the English and Urdu print media and the final date for submitting the entries is 30 April 2007. The winners of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will set up a plagiarism detection cell to monitor PhD theses and research publications. The HEC plans to acquire high quality software that will compare the publication materials with international literature and will review copied items instantly. According to a statement from the HEC on Monday, over the past […]
ISLAMABAD: The administration of Jamia Hafsa is planning to launch a short-range FM radio station in the capital to air religious programmes. “The Jamia Hafsa administration is making arrangements to start a short-range radio station in the capital,” sources privy to the development told Daily Times. They said that initially the radio’s range would be […]
KARACHI: The International Peace Club is organising a peace walk for the protection of the media and freedom of the press at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. The participants of the walk will assemble at Seventh Day Adventist Hospital from where they will march towards the Karachi Press Club. The walk is aimed at raising the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) have formulated a joint strategy to safeguard the people from land frauds. According to the plan, all the housing schemes would have to submit land documents to the CDA and advertise about the same in one of the national dailies. They will also be […]
LAHORE: As many as 100 people, including 20 journalists, have registered their names with the registrar office to record their statements as witnesses in suo moto proceedings about police highhandedness on lawyers and journalists during a protest rally of lawyers against the suspension of chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Justice Syed Zahid Hussain of the […]
ISLAMABAD: The European Union and Pakistan would soon discuss the recent incidents, including the “suspension” of the chief justice of Pakistan, ransacking of the The News and Geo television offices by police in Islamabad and the Third Generation Agreement. Talking to The News at a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of […]
SUKKUR: Two persons were killed and 15 others injured in separate incidents in Kandhkot on Tuesday. A report said two persons, including a woman, were killed over Karo-Kari in the village of Ghulam Sarwar Suhriani in the B-section police limits. Senghar Ali Suhriani suspected that his sister Robina, 25, was having illicit relations with Chandio […]
HYDERABAD: Lawyers and mediapersons on Tuesday continued their protest against attacks on the media and “judiciary” and demanded free press and judiciary in the country. Lawyers continued their protest by observing a hunger strike at the high court, while mediapersons, under the banner of the Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ), also observed a hunger strike […]
ISLAMABAD: Sixteen police officials are being interrogated over the attack on the offices of Geo television channel on March 16, Secretary Interior Syed Kamal Shah told a National Assembly committee here on Tuesday. Shah informed the Standing Committee on Interior that a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) was probing the incident under Section 19 of the […]
KARACHI: Another bomb threat was sent to the Geo News office on Tuesday, which created panic among the staff of Geo Networking. Most of them were of the opinion that it was the enemies of Geo who were trying to divert concentration and stop them from covering the truth. Last Friday, the Geo news office […]
ACCORDING to a report, the bylaws that the city government of Karachi plans to introduce to regulate private healthcare institutions will also seek to curb the unethical advertising of any product/facility which is not scientifically accepted. This is a welcome move. If one were to believe the claims made by the ads that have been […]
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