Afghan journalist working for Newsweek secretly detained for six days Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) has called on the Pakistani government to provide early information about Afghan journalist Sami Yousafzai, held secretly by Pakistani security forces since April 21. He was arrested in the tribal areas where he was working with American reporter Eliza […]
On April 21, 2004, journalist Zulfiqar Ali Khaskheli was granted bail and was discharged from People’s Medical College Hospital in Nawabshah where he was admitted after getting injured in police custody. Background: Zulfiqar Ali Khaskheli, a correspondent in the town of Nawabshah for the Hyderabad-based, Sindhi-language daily Ibrat, was severely beaten by police. It was […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Societys wage board committee, which met on April 12, with APNS President Arif Nizami in the chair, decided to file constitutional petitions before the respective high courts to seek legal remedy to protect the newspaper industry from financial crisis accruing under the 7th Wage Board Award, says a press release […]
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 – A discussion on ‘Freedom of Information’ was held in Islamabad the other day to generate dialogue between civil society and parliamentarians. The programme was organized by the Center for Democracy and Development in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Different parliamentarians, political figures, and representatives of media including Farhatullah Babar, Mehnaz […]
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has asked the District Bar Association (DBA) to prepare a feasibility report for establishing a women’s bar and solving problems at the district courts building. This was stated by minister for local bodies and parliamentary affairs Mohammed Basharat Raja while speaking to the members of the DBA on April 10. Mr […]
KARACHI: Journalists covering the Sindh Assembly proceedings have boycotted the remaining sessions of the House on April 9, due to misbehaviour and insulting attitude of police officials deputed at the main assembly gate. Reporters and photographers held an emergency meeting at the assembly’s pressroom and condemned police’s bad behaviour with them. It was also observed […]
KARACHI — The winners of “Gender in journalism Awards 2004″ jointly sponsored by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) and UNESCO, will be announced at a function to be held in Islamabad, on April 12, on International Press Freedom Day. There are two categories of awards. The first one – Excellent Gender Sensitive Reporting by male or […]
PESHAWAR: The Executive Editor of The News International, Rahimullah Yusufzai along with two foreign journalists and his driver, escaped a life attempt when unknown culprits opened fire on their vehicle in Masam Khan Adda near Qila Shah Beg on April 9. The world-fame journalist, accompanied by two foreign journalists, correspondents of The National Geographic magazine […]
KARACHI: The story of Polish refugees who took shelter in Karachi during World War II will be retold in a documentary being prepared by a state television journalist from Poland. The filmmaker, Anna Pietraszek, is preparing at least two documentaries that would help promote relations between the two countries. After the Soviet invasion of Poland […]
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench on April 8, dismissed a petition of the APNS, challenging The Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) Act 1973 for being “not maintainable.” After hearing the petition for five days, the bench headed by Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, said in its unanimous short order, that the petitioner could not invoke the […]
On 31 March 2004, Munawar Mohsin, a subeditor of the Peshawar-based national daily “Frontier Post”, was scheduled to appear in court. His appeal was postponed, however, because his lawyer, Zhur-ul Haq, had a scheduling conflict. No new date was set for the examination of Mohsin’s appeal. The bench consisted of Justices Tariq Pervaiz and Dosht […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court bench hearing the APNS petition challenging the vires of the law under which the Wage Board is constituted to determine the salaries of newspaper workers , on Wednesday, asked the lawyers to complete their arguments by April 8. The bench which has been hearing the case on a daily basis since […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists on April 6, evening staged a walkout from the press gallery of the Parliament House to protest against Minister for Information Sheikh Rashid Ahmed for not fulfilling his commitment regarding provision of financial support to a journalist for his treatment abroad. It may be mentioned that the journalists staged a walkout from the […]
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