KARACHI: On behalf of press organisations, senior lawyers will defend tomorrow (Tuesday) in the court of Sindh High Court (SHC) chief justice the immunity available to reporters of not divulging the source of the news they file. It may be recalled that in the Imran Farooq murder case, a 2-member bench of SHC headed by […]
Of the reasons responsible for the poor show of TV channels, it could be the untrained journalists working in conflict-hit areas, and in the respective media sections The founding father of today’s private electronic media world, operating in Pakistan, is indeed the one who stayed in power for long wearing a uniform. But perhaps it […]
Fasahat Mohiuddin Karachi: Being responsible is the backbone of journalism, but the Pakistani media lack this aspect, senior journalist and author Zahid Hussain said on Friday. “The media in Pakistan try to exaggerate or create hype, deviating from actual reporting,” he said while speaking on the topic “Press and media in today’s world – Power, […]
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court full bench on Friday ordered the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to prevent airing of a paid content by the PPP (Parliamentarians) on television channels containing an alleged telephonic conversation between former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif and Justice Malik Qayyum (retired). The bench passed this stay order on a […]
As Taliban bombs curtail campaign rallies, political parties are ploughing millions of dollars into TV and print adverts to sway voters ahead of next week’s historic polls. Competition is fierce but it’s a cash market and those with the biggest bucks get the most airtime ahead of the May 11 polls, set to mark a […]
LAHORE: Transparency International Pakistan has disclosed that the Sindh government has used secret funds belonging to the ministry of information to “buy the media”. In a letter to Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the advisor to the watchdog, Syed Adil Gilani has said that his organisation had pleaded during the hearing on April 2 in […]
Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL: Three government-run radio stations in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are faced with the danger of closure, as the Fata Secretariat has withheld payment of salaries to employees and other related operational expenditures of these stations since the start of this year. “We are awaiting payment of our salaries and other […]
LAHORE: Chairman Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees Nasir Hussain Haideri Thursday issued non-bailable and bailable arrest warrants of various newspaper managements and their chief executives for not paying lawful claims/dues to employees under wage board award. The tribunal on its third day of proceedings in city today took up 69 newspaper employees’ cases regarding non-implementation […]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan made public on Monday a list of eminent intellectuals, journalists, writers, anchorperson and news-agencies that were paid by the previous PPP Information Ministry through its secret fund. The Supreme Court list contains itemized particulars of those expenditures for which the information ministry now does not claim privilege or secrecy. The […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred till April 23 the hearing of the All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) and Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) petition against restriction on payments for public sector advertisements. Demanding separate lists of all dues of individual organisations, the divisional bench of the apex court ordered that the court should be […]
LAHORE: Justice Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court on Thursday sought reply from the authorities concerned and issued notice to the Transparency International Pakistan on a petition against unlawful approval of a summary of Rs961 million. Saeed Ahmed Cheema, a citizen, has filed the petition and made the director general of the Press […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court is likely to issue an order on Monday for making public a list of media houses and journalists who had received government money in the name of national security after it is testified by the information ministry to be a true document. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja and […]
KARACHI: An overwhelming number of people voted for more transparency to three questions posed by The Express Tribune on its poll on Tuesday. The three questions posed to readers in the online survey were “Should government departments other than security agencies be allowed to distribute secret funds?” To this, the overwhelming response was “No”. To […]
Sabir Shah LAHORE: Even if the Supreme Court of Pakistan somehow unmasks beneficiaries of the Ministry of Information’s secret fund on Wednesday (tomorrow), these guilty journalists and the concerned media barons are likely to go scot-free, contrary to countries like India, China and United Kingdom where such ugly faces are not treated as sacred cows […]
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