By: Nisar Ahmad Khan MANSEHRA: Local police on Saturday arrested a man over a girl’s rape and began raids in different areas of Mansehra for the arrest of three other accused. The girl told police that Mohammad Bashir and his three associates kidnapped her from her house last week after spraying her with an intoxicant […]
THE landmark ‘Anti-Women Practices (Criminal Law Amendment) Act, 2011’ bill was finally approved in the National Assembly unanimously. Its laudation is in order for the government for taking an extremely positive step towards women emancipation. In a society that is strictly tied to its cultural and traditional roots, women are treated more as a commodity […]
By: Shoaib Ahmed LAHORE: Morality and the use of morphing technology to distort or transform: these were the issues a day after actress Veena Malik found herself mired in yet another controversy over her depiction by FHM, a Mumbai-based magazine. In talk with Dawn on Saturday, Ms Malik denied having posed for the magazine as […]
KARACHI: A 32-year-old woman who has been arrested for killing her husband and attempting to dispose of the body by boiling its parts refused to record her confessional statement before a judicial magistrate on Friday. The woman, Zainab Bibi, and her 22-year-old nephew Zaheer were arrested in Shah Faisal Colony on Nov 24 for killing […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday called the banning of BBC and other foreign news channels across Pakistan in the last few days arbitrary, futile and a violation of citizens’ right to information and freedom of expression. A statement issued by the commission on Friday said: “The ‘unofficial’ ban on BBC […]
ISLAMABAD: The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) on Friday announced the support for a media development programme, which aims at mainstreaming gender in the Pakistani media industry as well as working towards creating a more balanced report on gender issues in Pakistan. The programme was launched at a ceremony held at Fatima Jinnah Women University […]
KARACHI: At least 16 journalists were killed and 47 injured during the eleven months of 2011 in Pakistan, the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) said in a report on Wednesday. Among the 16 journalists, five journalists were abducted allegedly by the state intelligence agencies, and their bullet-riddled bodies were dumped at roadside. Five […]
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates announced on Wednesday that children of Emirati women married to foreigners could apply for citizenship once they turned 18, moving closer to giving women the same nationality rights as men. President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahayan decreed that the “children of women citizens married to foreigners should be treated […]
Date: January 6 to 8, 2007 Location: Naushehro Feroze Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), with support from the European Union (EU), organized a three-day training workshop on “Media and Local Governance” for journalists in Naushehro Feroze from January 6 to January 8, 2007. The objectives of the workshop were: 1.To develop the capacity of journalists in […]
Hazrat Khan Mohamed, Bureau Chief of private TV channel “ATV Khyber News” was injured when a team of their TV channel was attacked by unknown armed men on Monday, August 22, 2011 in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The team was returning after enquiring about the health of Provincial Education Minister Sardar Hussain Babak […]
Date: 09-13 October 2011 Location: Karachi DANIEL PEARL-SALEEM SHAHZAD MEDIA TRAINING PROGRAM SUMMARY Drawing inspiration from Daniel Pearl and Syed Saleem Shahzad — American and Pakistani journalists killed in the line of duty while covering a common war against terror in Pakistan — the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships (AFPF) and the Pakistani Press Foundation (PPF) […]
Media Coverage of Pakistan Stokes Global Terrorism Fears: Study Maryland, April 16: The top newspapers in the United States failed to challenge the Bush administration’s representation of the dimensions and immediacy of the threat of terrorism in their coverage of one of the major theaters of the “War on Terror,” according to a new study […]
The house of Jawed Noor, senior correspondent of daily “Mashriq” and the president of Wanna Press Club was blown up with explosive device placed by some unknown miscreants in the midnight of Thursday, October 20, 2011, at Wanna, the headquarter of South Waziristan Agency of Federally Administrated Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Noor told PPF that […]
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