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Colour of cards changed for NA session

Red-coloured cards were previously issued to journalists, but the colour — which will be altered for every session from now on — has now been changed to green. Sources said security had been tightened following intelligence reports that saboteurs and terrorists might try to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere of the capital. online Source: Daily Times […]


JOURNALISTS’ DEMONSTRATION

MIRPURKHAS: Journalists stage a demonstration to condemn atrocities against their colleagues at the Post Office Chowk here on Saturday. Source: Dawn Date:1/28/2007


Missing journalist and friend: Media rights groups concerned by lack of government efforts

Reporters Sans Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists, in separate statements on Friday, said they were worried about the disappearance of the Peshawar-based resident editor of Daily Express newspaper and his friend Muhammad Niaz. ”It is impossible to say if Qalandar’s disappearance is linked to his work as a journalist, but once again, it […]


Use of loudspeakers banned

According to Orders on Saturday, the use of loudspeakers and some amplifiers (except for Azan and Khutaba for Juma Prayers), cassette players for making all kinds of objectionable sectarian related speeches and sermon at any place within revenue territorial limits of district Islamabad has been prohibited. In another Order, it has been directed that no […]


Govt committed to ensuring freedom of press: Wasim

In a statement over the boycott of the Opposition from Senate, he said, actually, it is a matter of the freedom of press and the opposition members were trying to dictate the press.He said apparently, the opposition boycotted the proceeding of the House on the pretext that PIA distributed some briefing among the media persons […]


Recovery of journalist demanded

In a press release issued here on Monday, the APHR member organisations – Aurat Foundation, Noor Education Trust, ActionAid, Sustainable Participatory Organisation, Khwendo Kor, Sungi, Human Resource Management and Development Centre, Shirkat Gah and Human Rights Commission of Pakistan – deplored that Mr Qalander and Mr Niaz remained untraced 20 days after their kidnapping.The organisations […]


Pearl case hearing adjourned

The bench comprising Justice Rehmat Hussain Jaffery and Justice Munib Ahmed Khan adjourned the hearing in appeals against the conviction of appellants and the state’s appeal for an enhancement of sentence of the co-accused. The four convicts include Ahmed Omar Shaikh, the main accused who has challenged the death sentence awarded to him while his […]


Book Launching at PPF Karachi: “Balochistan Mein Ablagh-E-Aama-Aghaz wa Irteqa” by Professor Seemi Naghmana Tahir

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Date: January 20, 2007 Location: Vicky Zeitlin Media Library, Karachi The launching ceremony of the book titled “Balochistan Mein Ablagh-E-Aama — Aghaz wa Irteqa”, authored by Professor Seemi Naghmana Tahir, Chairperson of the Department of Mass Communication, Balochistan University, was organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation at its Vicky Zeitlin Media Library, Karachi on January […]


Govt urged to recover missing journalist

A meeting held at Peshawar Press Club (PPC) and attended by the office-bearers of the PPC and the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) also made an appeal to the kidnappers to set Qalandar free on humanitarian grounds. An action committee was also set up to devise a strategy for the safe and early recovery of […]


Journalists demand release of kidnapped colleague

PESHAWAR: Journalists of Peshawr on Thursday expressed concern over the kidnapping of a senior journalists urging the administration to take necessry steps for his receovery. The journalists also appealed to the kidnapers to immediately release Sohail Qalndar, a senior journalist and resident editor of national daily. Sohail was kidnapped on January 2,2007 along with his […]


CPNE deplores ban on ads for Dawn

Syed Faseih lqbal, and General Secretary Wamiq A Zuberi, and directed the exercise of maximum caution in the dialogue with the Federal Government on the subject of press freedom and other matters relating to the print media and of primary concern to the CPNE. The meeting, by another resolution, strongly condemned the arbitrary and uncalled […]


PFUJ criticises govt move against Dawn

The PFUJ, in a statement on Wednesday, said that on the one hand the government had failed to ensure implementation of the wage award, on the other, it had blocked advertisements to a newspaper just because it had been critical of its policies. It criticised the practice of using advertisements as a lever to put […]


Strict curbs on quick-fix drugs demanded: Govt, media apprised of hazards

KARACHI, Feb 16: The College of Family Medicine Pakistan has apprehended that government’s indifference to unlicensed sale and marketing of quick-fix medicines and ‘magic herbs’ may become a cause of harm to public health. Secretary General of the college Dr Aziz Khan Tank on Friday said that medicine market was flooded with the so-called quick-fix […]


Gagging the media is not the answer

In a move reminiscent of the autocratic era of General Ershad, Bangabhaban issued a verbal instruction through an unidentified official of the press information department to TV news channels and the press not to print any news, pictures and cartoons and editorials critical of the present government. We want to categorically state that gagging the […]