KARACHI: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) President Syed Faseih Iqbal and Secretary General Wamiq Zuberi condemned failure of the government and law-enforcement agencies to recover kidnapped Sohail Qalander, resident editor, daily Express, Peshawar. Despite a lapse of over six weeks and identification of the area where Qalander is held in captivity the government has […]
LAHORE, Feb 10: The Punjab Bar Council (PBC) on Saturday took strong notice of an alleged attack on journalists by a group of lawyers and issued show cause notice to Advocate Muazzam Iqbal Gill besides seeking his personal appearance on Feb 15. The council also directed Advocate Gill to explain as to why disciplinary action […]
* Special TV channel for live parliament proceedings soon ISLAMABAD: All madrassas (seminaries) and mosques in the federal capital will remain at their places, said Federal Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani while talking to reporters on Saturday. However, the relocation of any mosque or seminary would be made in accordance with Islamic practices after consultations, […]
ISLAMABAD: Maintaining quorum in the National Assembly seems to becoming an uphill task for the government with every passing day, as Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) bill fell prey to this chronic problem on Friday when the lower house was adjourned well before its scheduled time. It was the second embarrassing moment for the […]
LARKANA, Feb 9: Some unidentified motorcyclists stopped a van carrying different newspapers near Jhukarjodaro on Friday papers and snatched away at gunpoint bundles of the Dawn. The newspaper agent has lodged a case at the Taluka police station and informed the DPO about the incident. Source: Dawn Date:2/10/2007
LAHORE: The representatives of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and other bodies of the lawyers while strongly condemning the attack on journalists in the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) premises have asked the Punjab Bar Council (PBC) to take disciplinary action against the bar members responsible for sad incident. While addressing a press conference […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government’s web portal – www.pakistan.gov.pk – along with a dozen other official websites of various departments and ministries is finally accessible after an outage since Thursday. The other affected websites included Ministry of IT & Telecommunication, Ministry of Commerce, E-Government Directorate (EGD) and others. ‘The News’ learnt through a number of cyber savvy […]
ISLAMABAD: The parliament cafeteria presents a forlorn spectacle after it has been robbed of its traditional vitality for different reasons. The underlying reason behind curbs on the movement of journalists inside the parliament building is most probably that the oversensitive lot does not relish the dissemination of information by the media, especially the electronic media. […]
ISLAMABAD (February 09 2007): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Thursday voiced concern over the condition and whereabouts of the missing persons and said that it would file a petition in the Supreme Court seeking their early recovery, says its annual report issued here. The report was launched at a press conference, addressed […]
PESHAWAR, Feb 6. The Action Committee struggling for the safe recovery of Sohail Qalandar, resident editor of daily Express, Peshawar, observed a four-hour hunger strike here to press for the early release of the journalist and his friend who have been missing since January 2. Members of the Khyber Union of Journalists and Peshawar Press […]
SIALKOT, Feb 6: An alleged gang has defaced all main hoardings displaying the pictures of female models by spurting black ink on them in almost all urban areas of the district. The hoardings had been erected by various advertising companies on all main roads, including Sialkot city’s congested Paris Road, Khwaja Safdar Road, Railway Road, […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 6: The government on Tuesday imposed unprecedented curbs on media in the Parliament House during the National Assembly and Senate sessions, barring journalists from the parliament cafeteria and ministers’ chambers. The move sparked protests from journalists, who termed it a ploy to deny them access to information, although the government said the action […]
KARACHI, Feb 5: The standards of a majority of the libraries run by the Sindh Directorate of Culture are in continuous decline for want of funds and attention. These are the findings of a report prepared by the directorate. The directorate runs 14 libraries in Sindh including the Liaquat Memorial Library of Karachi and a […]
PESHAWAR: NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (Retd) Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai has directed the political authorities of the Khyber Agency to recover kidnapped journalist Sohail Qalander and his colleague Niaz Muhammad without any further delay. He issued stern directions in this regard during a meeting with Secretary Law and Order Fata Arbab Muhammad Arif and Political Agent […]
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