LAHORE: To ensure fair coverage of 2013 elections through a common code of ethics, a consultative meeting of the media stakeholders was held at the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) regional office at Aiwan-i-Iqbal here on Wednesday. A similar meeting was held in Karachi on Tuesday to devise a joint strategy. The next meeting is […]
ISLAMABAD: Reporters Without Borders has condemned the murder of all six witnesses who had agreed to testify against the five defendants being tried for Geo News TV reporter Wali Khan Babar’s murder in Karachi in January 2011. The last surviving witness, Haider Ali, was shot dead in his home on 11 November. These cold-blooded murders […]
KARACHI: Launching a code of conduct on reporting during general elections, the Pakistan Coalition for Ethical Journalism (PCEJ) has said that journalists face the challenge of objectivity, impartiality and balanced reporting every day but polls pose a grater test of professionalism. The code was discussed at a meeting attended by senior media persons here on […]
QUETTA: Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) has demanded of the government to arrest the killers of Rehmatullah Abid, a journalist who was gunned down in Panjgur on Saturday. Journalists took out a procession from the press club on the call of the BUJ here on Tuesday. Participants of the procession, who wanted to march up […]
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) gave permission to all TV channels to broadcast foreign content, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira informed the National Assembly on Monday. Kaira, while replying to a question by Nahid Shahid Ali, told the lower house that as per Pemra terms and conditions, 90 percent of the […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Monday assured to pay compensation to journalists killed in line of their duty and attacks by the outlaws. “The government, Pakistani nation and journalists condemn these killing incidents and their heirs would be paid compensation,” he told the media at the Parliament House after they […]
By: Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: On an average, one journalist gets killed in the line of duty every 30 days. Almost 91 journalists have been murdered since 2000 due to which Pakistan has become the third most dangerous country for journalists after Somalia and Syria. This was stated during a seminar titled ‘International Journalist Day’ organised […]
By: Mohammad Zafar QUETTA: A journalist was gunned down on Sunday in the Washbood area of Panjgur district in the violence-stricken province of Balochistan. Panjgur Police Station Officer Jahangir Baloch told The Express Tribune that the slain journalist, identified as Rehmatullah Abid, was at a saloon in Washbood area of Panjgur, some 600 km away […]
By: Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: A top PPP leader and an icon of the lawyers’ movement will appear before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to defend the recent abusive and vulgar attacks on the judiciary and the Chief Justice of Pakistan, it is reliably learnt. After many programmes on some news TV channels airing baseless allegations […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) has complained to Pemra that six of its member channels have been off-aired by cable operators licensed by Pemra since Wednesday evening throughout Pakistan and specifically in Karachi. A press release issued by the PBA says that Pakistan’s most popular entertainment channels, including ARY Digital, GEO Entertainment, HUM TV, Express […]
By: Waqas Naeem ISLAMABAD: The code of conduct for media proposed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for upcoming elections is vague, general and restrictive and should be made more well-defined, specific and less prohibitive. These suggestions were made by journalists, media analysts and civil society members during a consultative meeting held by the […]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Farooq Awan, has said that the government had decided to lift the ban on YouTube “in a few days”. Awan said that the website would be “accessible in the country in a few days”. He also said that the auction to sell third generation (3G) mobile telecom licenses […]
LAHORE: A news channel employee was shot dead allegedly by her father near Lohaywali Pulli in Badami Bagh on Tuesday. Preliminary police investigation showed that Nasira had been living with her divorced mother Bushra Pervaiz. Her father Amanat used to warn her to discontinue work in the news channel. On Tuesday, Amanat shot dead Nasira […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) resolved on Monday that freedom of expression should not be allowed to harm state institutions. The authority decided that ensuring freedom of expression is the foremost obligation of a regulator but nowhere is it allowed to harm state institutions and its functionaries in the garb of freedom […]
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