By: Malik Asad ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court issued a show-cause notice to the owner of a private television channel on Tuesday for airing a programme containing defamatory and scandalous material against judges of superior judiciary. Hearing a petition filed by Nadeem Ahmed through his counsel Akram Sheikh, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui directed Haji Abdul […]
By: Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD: The television industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years but few of the entertainment stars are willing to share their good luck with the state by paying up the due tax. This is evident from investigations carried out by the Federal Board of Revenue into […]
By: Hasnaat Malik ISLAMABAD: Cases pertaining to the media are on the rise in the superior courts as several have been instituted in this regard since June 2012. Since the start of the lawyers’ movement, relationship between the superior courts and media has been cordial and the chief justice of Pakistan has taken most of […]
By: Azam Khan ISLAMABAD: With the long-awaited and potentially explosive Abbottabad Commission report purportedly complete and submitted, the Supreme Court has been moved regarding the media’s criticism of the armed forces in the aftermath of the Osama bin Laden debacle last year. The Supreme Court has sought complete details – including transcripts of TV talk […]
KARACHI: Several presentations were made and papers read by experts from Pakistan and abroad focusing on the ‘Culture of corruption’ at the International Conference on Corruption on its second and final day at a local hotel on Sunday. Dr Ayesha Siddiqa’s paper was titled ‘Watching the watchdog’, which highlighted the media’s problems and responsibilities in […]
By: Usman Manzoor ISLAMABAD: What a top PPP leader’s henchman is distributing among media persons — claiming that it is a reference against the Chief Justice of Pakistan — is nothing but a cluster of lies, manipulated facts, useless documents, a few opinion pieces, letters to the editor, news stories and a few documents which […]
By: Malik Asad ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) chairman caused a stir in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday when he informed Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui that lawyer Akram Sheikh, pleading the petition that Pemra stop TV channels from airing anything defamatory to the judges, himself had participated in such a […]
With a petitioners’ plea in the Supreme Court that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was given Rs 4.98 billion to be spent on the ‘welfare’ of the journalists, it is in the fitness of things that details of how and to whom this largesse was distributed should be made public. As the SC has […]
Karachi: Speaker Sindh Assembly and acting governor Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Wednesday alleged that a certain section of the Sindhi media was provoking violence among people over the Sindh Peoples Local Government Act 2012. In a statement, Khuhro said certain section of the media had given an ‘unnecessary hype’ to the issue of local government […]
ISLAMABAD: A spokesman of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has strongly rejected contents of a news item published in dailies “The News” and “Jang” on October 17, 2012, alleging that government TV will be used to ridicule the judiciary. The spokesman said that the government and its institutions respect the judiciary as an important […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court altered on Tuesday its earlier restraining order under which secret funds of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had been frozen. The order had stopped the disbursement of salary of employees working in the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), a government-funded think tank. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday barred all television channels from broadcasting any kind of contemptuous or ridiculous material against the judiciary and judges. Through an interim order, Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to ensure implementation of the court’s order pertaining to a ban on airing […]
By: Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: Following strict orders from two high courts not to violate the Constitution by attacking and abusing judges in TV programmes and press conferences and the cancellation of a press conference in Rawalpindi, the PPP government has decided to use the state-owned TV channel for the purpose as now most private TV […]
By: Malik Asad ISLAMABAD: As some petitioners battle it out in the court to prevent the broadcast of criticism of the judiciary on news channels, the government has silently passed new regulations that will allow free discussion of sub judice issues. Pemra told the Islamabad High Court on Monday that it had passed its much-awaited […]
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