KARACHI: The APNS-CPNE Joint Action Committee which met under co-chairmanship of Shakil-ur-Rahman, President CPNE and Syed Faseih Iqbal, Senior Vice President APNS, expressed their concern over the ban of government advertisements to a section of the press. The Committee noted that the long drawn ban on the advertisements to the publications have disenchanted the member […]
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) sent a letter on March 25, to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, voicing alarm at last week’s shooting deaths of two television reporters in Baghdad. CPJ said the deaths were “especially troubling” as they occurred just days before the military presented a report on the death of […]
On March 26, Shahbaz Pathan, correspondent of “Daily Halchal” in Sukkur was released by kidnappers. According to news reports, he was released on pressure from police and influential persons. Police told that he was taken to a nearby rest house where kidnappers tied him and interrogated about his assets. Shahbaz Pathan is the younger brother […]
KARACHI – Syed Faseih lqbal, the Convenor Action Committee of APNS and Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman, President CPNE in a statement have announced that a joiint meeting of APNS and CPNE Action Committees shall be held on March 26, 2004, at 3:30 p.m. at CPNE Secretariat, Karachi. APNS Executive Committee at its meeting held on March 15, […]
DERA GHAZI KHAN – Activists of Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith staged a protest demonstration on March 25, against the government’s ban to release advertisements to Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation. Qari Abdul jabbar, Abdur Rauf, Haji Muhammad Latif Suhail, Hafiz Ahmad Hassan Advocate, Inamul Haq Hashmi and Hafiz Abdul Karim addressed the participants of the protest […]
KARACHI: A joint meeting of the action committees of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) and the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) will be held at the CPNE secretariat on March 26, at 3.30pm, says a press release of the APNS. The joint meeting shall consider and finalize the proposals of the executive committee for […]
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) protested today at Pakistan’s concerted efforts to stop foreign and local journalists freely covering army’s offensive against armed Taliban and Al-Qaeda supporters in Wana region of South Waziristan. At least four journalists have been arrested and a dozen more barred entering the area. The press freedom organization said government’s […]
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in the year 2003, 36 journalists were killed and 136 imprisoned for doing their jobs. CPJ’s annual survey, Attacks on the Press in 2003, documents instances of media repression in 95 countries. Such repression included assassination, assault, imprisonment, censorship, and legal harassment. The report noted that the […]
KARACHI: The People’s Republic of China’s Consul General, Sun Chunye will address the first meeting of the Sindh Committee of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editor (CPNE), at CPNE secretariat on March 30 at 3 pm. A series of lecture-meeting have been arranged by CPNE Sindh Committee to inform the CPNE member-editors on national and international […]
The past century is marked with how new horizons have been scaled by the revolutionary modes of mass communications. Of all the different ways through which mass communication has made a difference in our lives, journalism remains the most potent in both print and electronic media. Journalists build bridges in a society, providing the nation […]
SUKKUR: Local journalists observed a token hunger strike at press club on March 17, in protest against police failure to recover newsman Shahbaz Pathan and his companion Naveed Mangi who were kidnapped 15 days ago. The protesting journalists said that Sindh Chief Minister Ali Mohammad Mahar had told a delegation of journalists in Rohri some […]
New York – Imprisoned freelance journalist Khawar Mehdi Rizvi is scheduled to appear at a court hearing tomorrow in southwestern city of Quetta, Pakistan. According to local journalists, the court will consider whether Rizvi’s upcoming trial on sedition charges will be held in anti-terrorism court or regular court. The charges against Rizvi stem from his […]
KARACHI: Council of Newspaper Editors has expressed concern over the ban on government advertisements to Nawa-i-Waqt group of publications, says a press release. CPNE also expressed concern over reduction of or ban on government advertisements in some other newspapers. A high-powered committee was formed to resolve the issue, concerning the Nawa-i-Waqt group. The press release […]
KARACHI – All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has strongly condemned the ban of government advertisements to Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications and formed an action committee to chalk out further course of actions for restoration of ads and ensure their equitable and judicious flow to genuine publications, stated a spokesman of the Society. In a resolution, […]
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