LAHORE – Police maltreated journalists and human rights activists at a picket on Amjad Chowk in the cantonment on May 11. Police highups, who announced on May 10 that journalists would be allowed to go to the airport, did not honour their words. Both Lahore police chief DIG Tariq Saleem and Operations police chief Aftab […]
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) lambasted Pakistan for its heavy-handed treatment of the media as journalists tried to cover an attempted return from exile by opposition politician Shahbaz Sharif, brother of ex-Prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Intense official pressure was brought to bear on private ARY Digital TV, a CNN journalist was arrested and police […]
ISLAMABAD – Despite the proclaimed liberalization of the information and media sectors of the economy, the government was still reluctant to issue licenses to the private TV channels as the PEMRA goes slow on drafting amendment in its ordinance. The process of amendment in the PEMRA Ordinance would take sometime, nevertheless the cabinet had already […]
ISLAMABAD – The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has moved three adjournment motions in the Senate against the recent incidents of violation of the press freedom. The MMA leader, Senator Professor Khurshid Ahmad, expressed his strong reaction over the incidents and moved motion to take up the issue in the Senate. He reacted strongly to a report […]
ISLAMABAD – Canadian business delegation has expressed keen interest to invest in the fields of IT, Telecom, Mining, Minerals and Agriculture. The delegation comprised Stewart Hall, President of Canadian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Vice President Strategy Tec, Shariq Qureshi and President Milcon Gulf Group; Shameem Qureshi met with Chairman Board of Investment (BOI), Waseem […]
LAHORE – CNN regional producer Syed Mohsin Naqvi was detained at his residence here on May 10 evening. The police personnel managed their entry into the house of Syed Mohsin Naqvi while giving a pretext that somebody had planted a bomb somewhere inside the premises. The cops upon being asked informed the CNN producer that […]
In a May 10, 2004, letter to the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, CPJ expressed concern about the prolonged detention of Newsweek stringer Sami Yousafzai and called on the government to release him immediately. Yousafzai was last seen on April 21, when he was detained with U.S. freelance journalist Eliza Griswold at a military checkpoint in […]
KARACHI – The body of a woman, who was killed by her husband’s elder brother on suspicion of illicit relationship, was exhumed on May 10. The 17-year-old victim, Hafia, was married to Zaid Ali six months ago. The couple was living in Saudabad with Zaid’s brother, Abid Ali, who admitted to have stabbed the woman […]
ISLAMABAD – A private TV channel failed to telecast a live interview of Pakistan Muslim League-N president Mian Shahbaz Sharif on May 9 night without giving any specific reason leaving a large number of viewers in deep mystery as to why the interview was not telecast. The London-based Pakistani news and current affairs channel kept […]
By STM “More journalists were killed in 2003 than in any year since 1995… A black year if ever there was one,” Reporters Sans Frontiers said in its annual report released to coincide with the World Press Freedom Day (which fell on May 3 last). Forty-two journalists were killed “while doing their job or for […]
MULTAN – Initial medical report of the unmarried victim of the Kabirwala case has belied the claim that she was raped. The report says ‘Mz’ is still virgin and there are no torture marks on her body that suggest any violent act committed against her. However, the police want to have her detail examination from […]
By Nusrat Nasarullah With the way power failures have made life in Karachi still more frustrating and challenging, one would have wanted to begin with that, but a story in May 7 issue of Metropolitan, which highlights the shameful and rather painful details of how “women feel insecure at workplace,” made me change my mind. […]
SUKKUR – A girl was killed by her brother over the pretext of Karo-Kari in village Daro, in the jurisdiction of Gaheja police station in Shikarpur district in the wee hours of April 6. Accused Zaheer Ahmed fled after killing his sister Sajida. Ghulam Sarwar Junejo, a relative of deceased has registered an FIR with […]
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) has said it is extremely concerned about the fate of Newsweek journalist Sami Yousafzai about whom the Pakistani authorities refuse to give any information either about the reasons or place of his detention. Nothing has been heard of the Afghan journalist, working for the US magazine, since his arrest […]
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