MARDAN: A Compact Disc (CD) shop was blown up in Muslimabad in the limits of Par Hoti Police Station here Sunday, sources said. The sources said that unidentified persons had planted explosives near the shop located in the Duranabad Chowk on the Mardan-Swabi road. The explosives went off at around 04:30am and caused damage to […]
By: Abrar Mustafa ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has ordered the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) of the country to block a website and a Facebook page containing material against its newly appointed chairman, Farooq Awan. It is learnt that the material on the website and the Facebook page contained wrong and baseless information that is […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has issued a key policy directive to block all blasphemous and pornographic material on the internet by installing effective modern filtration system but ensuring that it does not affect the freedom of information, writes Ansar Abbasi. Following the personal interest shown by the incumbent Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and after consulting […]
BY: ZULFIQAR AHMAD A thorough probe should be initiated into allegations that President Asif Ali Zardari is stuffing the pockets of some journalists, former Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad told Business Recorder on Saturday. “This is a very serious allegation, which may influence the whole process of transparency in […]
Islamabad: The standing committee of the National Assembly on Information and Broadcasting has expressed its displeasure on the ongoing campaign in the electronic and print media designed to criticize the ideology of Pakistan. The Committee directed the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and also the Press Council of Pakistan to take steps to put an […]
By: Usman Manzoor ISLAMABAD: Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s statement that journalists and media houses were being “bought” by the incumbent PPP government has set tongues wagging about their names, but ironically, exactly 10 years ago, the PPP was asking the same question from the then military government. The PPP had filed a reference in the […]
ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said he will stick to his statement that President Asif Ali Zardari was doling out billions of rupees to favoured TV channels in the name of advertisements as part of pre-poll rigging. In a statement, he said those in Zardari’s circle were trying to distort his […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists representative bodies and top media persons on Wednesday strongly denounced the statement by Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan alleging that anchorpersons were bribed by the government for pre-poll rigging and asked him to come up with names and evidence. “We demand Chaudhry Nisar to disclose the names […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday asked the nation to boycott those media houses which highlighted anti-Pakistan and anti Two-Nation theory material. Belum Hasnain, the chairperson, requested TV viewers and newspaper readers to boycott those media houses which give coverage to statements of persons who spoke against the country […]
LAHORE: Senior lawyers have requested the Supreme Court not to hold proceedings on a petition filed by journalists against TV channel owners, and the distribution of money and plots among journalists by property tycoon Malik Riaz, in the Quetta Registry of the apex court because of security reasons. The apex court had issued notices to […]
ISLAMABAD: The Press Council of Pakistan on Tuesday urged the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting to help enforce and implement the ethical code of practice in print media. The committee met Tuesday to deliberate the functions of the Press Council of Pakistan The code of practice was framed by the council to […]
By: Ahmad Hassan ISLAMABAD: Participants of a consultative meeting called by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority on Monday under the directive of the Supreme Court to discuss the terms ‘obscenity’ and ‘vulgarity’ in reference to what is shown on television remained divided on the definition of the terms, whereas representatives of television channel owners and […]
TANDO ADAM: A large number of journalists belonging to print and electronic media took out a rally here yesterday to protest against threats of dire consequences to the reporter and a cameraman for making footage of incident of beating a man to death in Joharabad, Charkha Ghar locality of Tando Adam. The lawyers, teachers, activists […]
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Monday issued notices to 58 TV channel owners while hearing petitions filed by journalists against distribution of money and plots by business tycoon Riaz Malik. A two-member bench, consisting of Justice Jawad S Khawaja and Justice Arif Hussain, heard the petitions, and filed by journalists Hamid Mir, Absar Alim and other journalists. […]
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