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Time for media to introspect

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IF you follow the media, as I suspect most of us do, you would have realised that these days it seems obsessed with itself. But are you so deeply interested in these media houses’ tiffs and tussles that you eagerly await the next news bulletin on TV or desperately reach out for the day’s newspaper […]


ABS and his tribe of the pen

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Those enchanted evenings where novices like me could hone their skills by sharing a toast with the learned and the accomplished have long left our press clubs. But we, the products of those evenings, are still around to tell the story. It was the start of the depressing decade of 1980s. The cacophony of General […]


Call for legislation on ratified human rights conventions

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HYDERABAD: Experts and human rights activists lamented on Thursday that though Pakistan was signatory to a number of international conventions, successive governments hadn’t formulated any laws for ensuring basic human rights to people such as education, health and livelihood. They were speaking at the launch of a national mobilisation campaign for ‘International Covenant on Economic, […]


Reviving PTV’s glory days

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WITH its 49th anniversary, the state-run Pakistan Television has entered its golden jubilee year. A journey that began nearly five decades ago is now reaching another milestone very fast. Since its inception, the people associated with it ensured the quality and production value of the programmes telecast by it, which lasted for a long span […]


Celebrating Human Rights Day

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Sir: International Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year. This day is significant for the world leaders to recognise the rights of human beings, declared by the United Nations in the Universal Human Rights Convention (1948). Recalling human rights and their implementation are two sides of the same coin. Today, the world […]


The Nation photo journalists steal the show

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ISLAMABAD: Assistant Inspector General of Islamabad capital Territory police on Tuesday awarded two photojournalists of The Nation with certificates of performance for their efforts to highlight crime-related issues in Press. AIG Sultan Azam Taimuri spoke highly of the works of photojournalists including The Nation’s chief photographer Javed Nasir and photojournalist Syed Medhi and awarded them […]


HRCP speaks out for women’s cause

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LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday observed the International Human Rights Day by focusing on the local theme of violence against women. It also organised a demonstration and a number of activists, holding placards that depicted data about violence against women, stood at Liberty roundabout for more than two hours to […]


PPP signs 15-point human rights pledge

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KARACHI: While commemorating the Universal Human Rights Day, Pakistan Peoples Party patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday vowed never to compromise on people’s right to liberty, equality, non-discrimination, assembly and free speech. He was speaking at a ceremony held at the CM House to sign 15-point PPP’s human rights pledge solemnly undertaken to strive to create […]


The SC disposed of 187,754 HR cases under CJ

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ISLAMABAD: Giving an exceptional performance, the Supreme Court of Pakistan under Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry decided 187,754 out of a total of 232,265 human rights cases, an astounding 80 percent. These cases were in addition to 114 suo moto notices disposed of relating to problems and difficulties faced by the common people during his […]


World Human Rights Day today

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Lahore: Like other parts of the globe, World Human Rights Day-2013, marking the adoption of ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10th 1948, is being observed here with a resolve to continue efforts for protection of human rights. To mark the day, different organisations will hold seminars, walks, […]


Prepare journalists to save lives

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KARACHI: Provincial Secretary Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Sindh Kanwar Waseem said first aid training was very important for media practitioners whether they were in field or at home. He was addressing the concluding ceremony of the three-day Red Cross & Red Crescent Movement Dissemination and First Aid Training Workshop for media personnel, which began […]


Translation of Sabihuddin Ghousi’s work launched

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KARACHI: The Sindhi translation of a collection of articles by the late Sabihuddin Ghousi, a journalist associated with Dawn for decades, was launched at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday. ‘Khushhal Sindh, badhaal manhun’ has been translated and compiled in a book form by Hamsafar Gadahi. The organisers of the book launch informed the audience […]


Media: a war-winning constituent

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There is a requirement to form an independent media policy after essential input from all political parties, intelligentsia and other stakeholders The media, as a significant instrument of national power, may have emerged in the late 20th century but the relevance of media is by no means a new phenomenon. The media has always been […]


CPNE vows to safeguard freedom of press

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LAHORE: The general body meeting of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) elected Mujeebur Rahman Shami, the chief editor of Daily Pakistan, Lahore, as its president Dr Jabbar Khattak, the chief editor of Daily Awami Awaz, Karachi, as its general secretary on Saturday. Mujeebur Rahman Shami said that the organisation has a long history […]