LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday sought replies from the federal government and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting by March 20 on a writ petition filed against possible curbs on the media. The petitioner, advocate Rana Ilmuddin Ghazi, stated that the media was exposing the government and now the government […]
Pakistani journalist and documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s latest venture Saving Face has won an Oscar award under the category ‘Best Documentary, Short Subject’. In her acceptance speech, Chinoy dedicated the award to “all the heroes working on the ground in Pakistan” including British Pakistani plastic surgeon Dr Mohammad Jawad, main subjects of the documentary and the […]
Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: The Balochistan media has been sandwiched between the military and militants and has gone into a phase of dead silence, reveals a report bringing into sharp focus the unattended agony of journalists in the troubled province. The report declares it ‘the most dangerous region of the most dangerous country for practising journalism’. […]
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) late Friday night warned private TV channels against holding programmes and talk shows on Balochistan issue highlighting views of some disgruntled Baloch Sardars without any editorial control. In a letter to private TV channels it termed such debates against sovereignty and integrity of Pakistan. It says such programmes […]
NEW YORK: A global coalition against censorship is needed to protect online journalists and bloggers who are being targeted by repressive governments, a leading advocacy group said on Tuesday. At least 46 journalists died around the world in 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said, an increase from the estimate it released in December. […]
NEW YORK: At least 46 jourrnalists were killed in 2011, with Pakistan the deadliest country for the second year running, a rights group said Tuesday. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said deaths during dangerous assignments — such as covering street protests — reached the highest level on record in 2011 as the Arab […]
Armed men snatch bundles in newspaper market and set them on fire. QUETTA: Unidentified persons set newspaper bundles of Daily Century Express and The Express Tribune on fire in Quetta on Tuesday morning. The hawkers could not distribute the newspapers across the province because of the incidents that took place in the newspaper market and […]
Five men arrested in April 2011 are standing trial, five others on the run. By Zeeshan Mujahid KARACHI: The brother of slain journalist Wali Khan Babar has gone back to court, this time to ask for the inclusion of the names of the people who ordered the hit. Wali Khan Babar, a young emerging journalist, […]
KARACHI – The participants at a writing skill training session noted that media could bring positiirechangein the society by sensitizing the youth about important issues being confronted by the country here on Sunday. The daylong training session was organised by Pàkistan Press Foundation (PPF) in collaboration with Jinnah University for Women to discuss the role […]
By Asad Farooq KARACHI: The community radio could provide great help in ending gender discrimination and empowering women. Sindh Women Development Minister Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto stated this while speaking as chief guest at a three-day training work-shop for journalists and civil society organisations’ workers, organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) here on Friday. Bhutto […]
RAWALPINDI: A spokesman for the ISPR Thursday said the press release issued by the HRW New York on January 30 regarding the report of the judicial commission on Journalist Saleem Shahzad’s alleged murder had been found extremely derogatory, biased and contradictory. He said in a press release that in one stroke Brad Adams (executive director […]
The Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists is now accepting applications from professional journalists from developing countries for its 2012 fellowship programme. The application deadline is Wednesday, March 30, 2012. The fellowships are available to radio, television, print and web journalists, age 25 to 35, from developing countries who are interested in coming to New York […]
“The media is trying to replace the democraticallyelected PPP government with the poodles of dictators,” PPP Secretary General Jahangir Badr. LAHORE: While the media has become freer, there are still no-go areas like the military establishment and minorities issues that need to be opened up to press scrutiny. At the same time, the media must […]
By Wajahat S Khan Tough-talking journalist is broken a little by a night of death threats. ISLAMABAD: Saturday afternoons in Islamabad are clinically boring. The industrial/agricultural elite of Parliament has packed off for the weekend and anybody who wears stars is off golfing or playing polo. As even the Twitter feed is slow, the news […]
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