KARACHI: Cable operators in many parts of Karachi are airing the programmes of Indian TV channels with no landing rights in Pakistan, complain the citizens. It is learnt that cable operators in different parts of the city are routinely showing the programmes of Indian channels by hiding their logos. Many viewers think that the programmes […]
By: Shahzada Irfan Ahmed Who says journalists land into trouble when they transgress certain ideological or geographical boundaries? That’s not always the case. Today, it’s not necessary for them to travel to lawless zones to risk their security. They are equally vulnerable to dangers even within the confines of their homes if they care less […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Eletronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) invited experts on August 27 for consultations to thrash out a term ‘obscenity’ for electronic media which face criticism from certain quarters over its content. In the wake of criticism from some politicians and other stakeholders, the authority decided to address the issue in order to give […]
By: Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: In a move that is sure to allay concerns of cellular companies Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has rejected the idea of blocking altogether the pre-paid mobile phone SIMs. Informed sources told Dawn on Friday that while the prime minister wanted a credible verification system for issuing new SIMs by […]
By: Imran Ali Teepu ISLAMABAD: Telecom operators and even some security officials have expressed grave concern over the government’s plan to block pre-paid SIMs issued on bogus national identity cards. Experts believe that the $10 billion telecom industry in Pakistan with the highest mobile phone penetration in South Asia will be in trouble if the […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Rehman Malik has said that the government has the greatest responsibility to ensure the protection of the lives and property of the people and all efforts will be made to keep them secure. While talking to newsmen here during his visit to the Police Line headquarters, the minister said that mobile […]
By: Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: The Indian allegation that the threatening messages and the pictures of genocide incidents were put on website from Pakistan after riots in Assam was rejected. The Interior Ministry sources said that Indian interior minister during telephonic conversation with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik levelled charges against Pakistan for issuing threatening messages […]
KARACHI: Shamim-ur-Rahman, a veteran journalist and special correspondent of Dawn, died on Tuesday morning after a long illness. He was 71. Shamim-ur-Rahman was laid to rest in a cantonment graveyard in Block 17 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The Namaz-i-Janaza was attended by a large number of journalists and politicians, including PPP Senators Raza Rabbani and Saeed Ghani, […]
QUETTA: National Party (NP) President Dr Malik Baloch on Friday condemned the alleged state attack on the Baloch media and the kidnapping of a TV anchorperson’s brother. Addressing a press conference at the Quetta Press Club, Baloch said that he wanted to express his party’s solidarity with anchorperson Razaq Sarbazi, whose brother Jalil Sarbazi was […]
LAHORE: Islampura police registered on Thursday a murder case against five people, including the owner of a daily, after a woman journalist committed suicide on Wednesday by jumping from a multi-storey hostel building after she failed to get four-month’s salary. Complainant Afzaal said his daughter Seemab had been employed in daily Anti-Crime some four months […]
LAHORE: A 20-year-old girl committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of a local hostel in the Islampura area on Wednesday. The deceased, Seemab, who hailed from Narang Mandi, had been serving in a local newspaper as a lady reporter for the last three years. She was mentally disturbed as she was not given […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided to put in place an integrity pact and an independent monitoring committee comprising of media and civil society representatives to accomplish multi-billion dollar transaction of auctioning Third Generation (3G) technology. “We will complete this transaction within four months period as we have already lost two and a […]
ISLAMABAD: Pervaiz Shaukat, president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), is among the eight journalists who have been conferred civil awards by the president on the occasion of the Independence Day. According to a press release, the other journalists who got awards include Azhar Abbas, Hamid Mir, Jugnoo Mohsin, Sikandar Hameed Lodhi, Qazi […]
ISLAMABAD: As the associations of the Pakistan Cable Operators and the Pakistan Broadcasters moved the Supreme Court to become party in an ongoing case against obscenity and vulgarity in the electronic media, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) told the court that technological constraints restrained it from monitoring cable operators. “Television channels (Indian channels) […]
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