Transmission of three leading private television news channels were intermittently blocked in many parts of Pakistan since June 1, apparently in an attempt by the government to control the media coverage of crisis that has engulfed the country since President Pervez Musharraf suspended the Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and filed a judicial […]
The Pakistan government has prohibited independent television channels from televising programmes, including live talk shows and discussions, on the judicial crisis facing the country following presidential reference against Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. A letter issued to television channels the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) said that live talk shows and discussions […]
Karachi May 31: Renowned musician Salman Ahmed disclosed that MQM activists threatened him several times in the last fifteen years. He stated on one occasion, when he refused to perform at the chief of MQM’s Altaf Husaain’s marriage function in Karachi and London where other artists, including Ali Azmat, were browbeaten to perform, he was […]
PESHAWAR, May 24: Unidentified armed men attempted to enter the house of Daily Times cartoonist Muhammad Zahoor late on Thursday night and fired shots at an area watchman when he tried to stop them. Zahoor, who has won four APNS awards for best cartoonist, said that the men rang his doorbell at 2am but he […]
Mohajir Rabita Council (MRC), an ethnic political group in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, has denounced twelve Pakistani journalists as being ‘chauvinists,’ and criticized their role in the violence during protest rallies held in Karachi on May 12, 2007, during the visit of the suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhary to the city. […]
CHARSADDA: The 25-year old man arrested Monday night on charges of bombing a music shop in Sherpao village used to lead Friday prayers at a mosque in a poor locality in Charsadda town and often gave sermons on the blessings of jihad. Sources told The News that Saeed, son of Zafran, used to lead the […]
NOWSHERA, May 17: Unidentified persons here delivered pamphlets to owners of video and CD shops asking them to wind up their business within 10 days. Some shop-owners here at the Flying Coaches stand market on the Cavalry Road claimed that when they opened their shops in the morning they found pamphlets in Urdu on the […]
ISLAMABAD (May 13 2007): Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) has strongly condemned attack on the independent private TV channel, AAJ, and criticised the provincial and Federal governments for their failure to provide protection to one of the most respected and popular TV channels of the country for six long hours. The members and office bearers […]
‘Aaj’ TV, a leading television channel of Pakistan, came under gunfire attack for almost six hours on May 12 during clashes between government supporters and opposition activists that took the lives of 36 persons in Karachi, the country’s largest city. The attackers also set ablaze vehicles in the parking lot of the television network. Elsewhere […]
HYDERABAD, May 13: Journalists in several districts and towns of the province staged rallies on Sunday in protest against attack on Aaj TV and media men in Karachi. The Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ) held a demonstration outside the press club. Leaders of the union who led the protest demanded that the government should take […]
KARACHI, May 12: Armed men attacked the office of a private television channel and set on fire more than a dozen vehicles in its parking lot here on Saturday. The Aaj TV was telecasting live footage of youths brandishing guns in front of its offices on the Business Recorder Road and firing on their rivals […]
CHARSADDA: An attempt to blow up music shops has been foiled here on Tuesday. Saboteurs planted explosive material outside five music shops in a plastic bag. On suspicion, area residents informed the police, which reached the scene but the saboteurs fled. Fortunately, the explosive material did not go off. The police have taken the explosives […]
MIRAMSHAH, May 7: The local Taliban Shoora on Monday imposed a ban on sale of CDs and cassettes and music in buses and passenger coaches in North Waziristan. The Shoora also ordered owners of music and video shops in Miramshah to wind up their businesses immediately. Armed volunteers raided music centres and CD shops in […]
Threatening pamphlets continue to harass Dir people DIR: Police are still clueless about elements responsible for issuing threatening letters and pamphlets to barbers and video shop owners. After barbers, hotel owners and nurses, now fresh threatening letter have been issued to public call offices (PCOs) and mobile phone sellers for displaying “obscene” pictures to attract […]
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