By: Mariana Baabar ISLAMABAD: The Military Intelligence (MI) has initiated a country wide exercise, where they are knocking at the doors of journalists and columnists seeking help in providing them details about themselves in a two-page form in Urdu, for what they say is a verification process. The News saw the names of nearly a […]
By: Peer Muhammad ISLAMABAD: Journalists in Pakistan are frequently subject to violence, and hence should be afforded maximum security via suitable legislation, said Senator Farhatullah Babar at a session of the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Monday. The committee observed that not a single report regarding the security of journalists was made […]
By: Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: Taking serious notice of The News report, Prime Minister Pervaiz Asharf has decided to review the flawed Pemra Content Regulation 2012, which are secular in nature and do not even mention Islam, Islamic values, the ideology and defence of Pakistan. His spokesman Shafqat Jalil told this correspondent that a high level […]
KARACHI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is the most dangerous place for journalists in Pakistan, where 14 journalists were killed in the line of duty during last 11 years. Balochistan with the murders of 14 journalists during the same period ranked second, followed by Sindh with 9 killings, FATA with 8, Punjab with 3 and federal capital […]
ISLAMABAD: A recent litigation in the Islamabad High Court showed that the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) is working without any rules of business even 10 years after its establishment. The PCP was set up in 2002 with the aim to revise, update, enforce and implement the ethical code of practice for newspapers, news agencies, […]
By: Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: For much of Pakistan’s existence, the media and military lived separate lives. The media did not comment on internal military affairs, the military establishment did not issue press statements on its matters. All that changed in the 80s, when newspapers started to carry reports on closed door meetings of corps commanders. […]
LAHORE: Voicing its concern at and condemnation of the attempt to assassinate senior journalist Hamid Mir, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for effective measures to guarantee journalists’ fullest possible security. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the commission said: “The bid to target senior journalist Hamid Mir raises quite a […]
KARACHI: The editors and senior journalists from different national newspapers, representatives of civil society organisations and the journalists working in conflict areas speaking at a roundtable discussion on ‘Print Media Coverage on Conflicts’ here Wednesday called for balanced reporting for minimising the threat to the life of journalists working in conflict zones. The participants of […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for planting a bomb under the car of Hamid Mir, a television anchor, and warned him of a second assassination bid. Mr Mir was criticised by the Taliban last month in the wake of the shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousufzai. “Life and death is in the hands […]
Hamid Mir, senior journalist and the anchorperson of Pakistan’s largest television channel Geo TV’s popular talk-show ‘Capital Talk,’ escaped a bomb attack on November 26, 2012 in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad. An improvised explosive devise containing have a kilogram of explosives was attached under Mir’s car as he was coming back from the market […]
ISLAMABAD: More than 280 popular “.pk” domain names, including that of the Pakistani Google homepage, have reportedly been hijacked by a Turkish hacking crew known as “eboz.” Addresses including Apple.pk, Microsoft.pk, and Google.com.pk had their DNS settings changed earlier today to point to two alternative name servers at freehostia.com, with some, such as msn.org.pk, still […]
By: Sumaira Jajja KARACHI: “Before we ask for ending impunity for those who attack journalists, we must unmask those who attack us,” said Wusatullah Khan, a senior journalist, while sharing his thoughts on the ‘International Day to End Impunity for Violence against Journalists’ on Friday. “Everyone knows who killed these journalists in Pakistan but to […]
LANDIKOTAL: A tribal journalist was slightly injured and a vehicle of a Khasadar officer was damaged in a roadside bomb explosion on Thursday. In a remote-controlled IED blast in Sadukhel area of Landikotal, journalist Sudhir Ahmad Afridi was slightly injured on his left leg whereas the vehicle of Khyber Khasadar Force Subedar Harkala Khan was […]
KARACHI: Dunya News reporter Kiran Khan, a technician and some other journalists were injured Wednesday in two bomb blasts in Orangi Town, television channels reported. Four people were killed and 13 wounded. Police said the first blast was a suicide attack while the second that occurred in front of an Imambargah gate was detonated through […]
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