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 […]
ISLAMABAD: A judge rejected bail on Saturday for a human rights activist who campaigned against alleged detentions by spy agencies, said his lawyer and family. Khalid Khawaja, chief coordinator of Defence of Human Rights-a group fighting a legal battle for the release of dozens of missing people- disappeared on Jan 26 while on his way […]
In this connection, a press briefing was held on Saturday which was addressed by Secretary Culture Salim Gul Sheikh and Chairman Hunerkada Jamal Shah.Speaking on the occasion, the secretary culture underlined the need to identify the challenges confronting the film industry to put it on sound footing. He called for interacting with the film industry […]
PESHAWAR (February 03 2007): The civil society organisations staged a protest here on Friday to resent the government’s failure to recover Daily Express Resident Editor Sohail Qalander and his friend Niaz Mohammad who were kidnapped from Peshawar on January 2, 2007. The demonstration was organised by the Alliance for Protection of Human Rights (APHR), a […]
RAWALPINDI: The government has offered to facilitate a visit by foreign media representatives to tribal areas so as to reach Taliban-sponsored tribal and Pakhtoon leader Baitullah Mahsood to ascertain ground realities. The offer came from President General Pervez Musharraf at a news conference here on Friday while responding to a question by a foreign journalist […]
ISLAMABAD – Parliamentarians belonging to the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) have invited the attention of Speaker National Assembly towards the alleged physical assault by intelligence officials of Carlotta Call, a representative of Herald Tribune,in Quetta. The magazine claimed that the journalist was manhandled by the intelligence officials and kept for five hours along […]
Hyderabad district council session HYDERABAD: The ongoing session of the Hyderabad district council was adjourned on Monday till Tuesday after the journalists covering the session boycotted the proceedings to protest the remarks of a member against the press. The council, which met with its convener Zafar Ali Rajput in the chair, was discussing three identical […]
ISLAMABAD: The journalists of Rawalpindi and Islamabad staged a six-hour sit-in in front of the Press Information Department here on Thursday to press the government to punish the police officer who ordered a baton-charge on reporters and photographers covering a suicide attack outside a five star hotel. During the protest, the journalists shouted slogans against […]
LAHORE: Police in Khushab district have registered a case against five Ahmadis, including two pre-teens, for subscribing to the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiya’s monthly children’s magazine Tasheezul Azhan, Daily Times has learnt. According to the first information report, the complainant, an officer of the Intelligence Bureau, submitted to the Khushab district police officer (DPO) that the magazine is […]
KARACHI: Reporter of a private TV channel and a student from the Karachi University’s Urdu department, were maltreated by some students alleged to be the activists of a student organisation at the campus, on Thursday. The reporter informed The News that he was on a visit to the university on some personal errand, when passing […]
Talking to a 10-member delegation of the action committee of journalists headed by senior journalist Shamim Shahid, the chief minister said progress has been made with regard to Sohail’s recovery. He said he was shocked over the kidnapping of Sohail. “We are striving hard to get Sohail recovered from kidnappers as soon as possible so […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: A high level meeting has come up with a number of recommendations for the implementation of a constitutional provision, favouring the use of Urdu for official and other purposes. Federal ministers Wasi Zafar, (Law, Justice, Human Rights), Zobeida Jalal (Special Education), Muhammad Ali Durrani (Information and Media Development) and Prof Dr Atta […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Dozens of journalists of the twin cities on Thursday blocked one of the busiest roads of the capital at Zero Point for more than seven hours after the authorities concerned failed to take action against a senior police official who allegedly ordered baton charge on mediapersons covering Marriott Hotel blast. Journalists from […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 31: Feeling a mix of anger and helplessness, the Khyber Union of Journalists held a demonstration in front of the Governor’s House on Wednesday in protest against the government’s failure to recover a journalist kidnapped about a month ago. The protesting journalists were joined by the Alliance of Human Rights Organisations and the […]
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