By Sameen I would like to draw your attention to the morning show craze that has been adopted by our television channels. Once there was a time when talents like Tauseef Haider and Mustansar Hussain Tarar would host some really informative and decent shows with great guest appearances for these morning shows but now, whenever […]
By: Israr Ahmad RAWALPINDI: The defence lawyers on Saturday filed an application with Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi Number 1, urging it to either implement its earlier order of in-camera trial of Mumbai attack case or open the proceedings for media and public. Special Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, who has been trying the seven accused arrested in […]
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered to present expenditures and other details of Press Council. While hearing a case in connection with media’s accountability Justice Jawad S Khawaja remarked that the decision to do work or to establish stations was the task of the government not the court. But the money, which is being provided […]
ISLAMABAD: The justification for creation of secret funds should be made clear and it’s the right of the masses, under Article 19 of the Constitution, to know where the money being taken out of their pockets is being spent. Judicial review can be carried out on not telling the reasons for secret funds. Supreme Court […]
LAHORE: Feeling insecure in face of the rising trend of dishing out foreign content (plays) on different local TV channels, United Producers Association and television professionals staged a joint protest outside the Lahore Press Club on Monday against the practice. The protesters, including a number of TV artistes, carrying placards with different slogans expressing their […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: A new entertainment phenomenon has taken the Pakistani television audience by storm. Ironically it has nothing to do with local Pakistani TV stars, directors or producers. Rather it is the drama serials (some suggest they are categorised as soaps) produced in Turkey that Pakistani TV viewers have taken a shine to. […]
By: S. M. SHAHID IT was shocking to watch a programme on a private TV channel titled ‘Baat se baat’. A young girl, who looked like a teenager, was going round in what appeared to be a kutchi abadi, with a microphone in her hand and two police constables following her. She had raided the […]
By: Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting expressed concern on Monday over a growing trend among private channels to telecast Turkish soaps, expressing fears that the local mini-screen entertainment industry would go the way of its big-screen sister. A meeting of the committee, held at the Parliament House, noted that […]
By: Abbas Nasir WHERE the chief election commissioner’s appointment fuelled optimism about the conduct of the next election, the discourse in the electronic media leaves a lot to be desired. First, the consensus which put Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim in office and now the quality of interaction between his office and the political parties as […]
ISLAMABAD: The special committee of the Senate in its meeting held at the Parliament House on Thursday with Leader of the House Jehangir Badr in the chair deliberated upon the recruitments made in the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) from 2007 to August 31, 2012 and the appointments made in accordance with the province-wise […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has summoned acting Chairman PEMRA Dr Jabbar today (Wednesday) in the case of formation of media commission. The two-member bench of Supreme Court, comprising Justice Jawad S Khawaja and Justice Khalji Arif Hussain, heard the petition filed by two senior journalists, Hamid Mir and Ibsar Alam. Hamid Mir told the court […]
THIS refers to recent tragic incident wherein a young man jumped to his death from the eighth floor of a building in Karachi to save himself from fire that had erupted on that floor. Owais’s death posed terrible picture of our society. When he was hanging from the building and was struggling for his life […]
By: Naeem Sahoutara KARACHI: The builder who allegedly demolished the temple in Soldier Bazaar on Saturday has gone to court against the media for distorting the news in favour of the community. Builder Ameen Lakhani, his partner, Muhammad Shoaib, and a man who claimed to be the owner of the plot, Ismail Gora, went to […]
By: I.A Rehman THE somewhat acrimonious debate on a Human Rights Watch statement on some judicial directives regarding media programmes has obscured the issue, namely, the media’s right to comment on judicial matters that demands a sober, rational and unemotional discussion. The well-known and widely respected human rights watchdog had made it clear that it […]
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