ISLAMABAD: Sixteen police officials are being interrogated over the attack on the offices of Geo television channel on March 16, Secretary Interior Syed Kamal Shah told a National Assembly committee here on Tuesday. Shah informed the Standing Committee on Interior that a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) was probing the incident under Section 19 of the […]
KARACHI: Another bomb threat was sent to the Geo News office on Tuesday, which created panic among the staff of Geo Networking. Most of them were of the opinion that it was the enemies of Geo who were trying to divert concentration and stop them from covering the truth. Last Friday, the Geo news office […]
ISLAMABAD (APP) – President Musharraf Monday categorically said there was no such situation in the country to impose state of emergency and assured that the next general elections would be held according to schedule after assemblies complete their term. In an interview with a private TV channel, the president dispelled the rumours about imposing any […]
KARACHI (March 20 2007): The lawyer of an Islamist militant sentenced to be hanged for his role in the 2002 murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl said on Monday that he would use a top al Qaeda militant’s confession to support an appeal. British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, or Sheikh Omar, was sentenced to death […]
BAHAWALNAGAR, March 18: The local police on Sunday booked 25 journalists for protesting against the police action on Geo TV office in Islamabad and violence against lawyers. Reports said that press club members had gone to the hunger camp of lawyers on the premises of the district courts and expressed solidarity with them. Similarly, eight […]
PESHAWAR/MARDAN, March 18: A watchman was killed and two people were injured in attacks on video shops in Peshawar and Mardan on Sunday morning. In Peshawar, an explosive device went off in a video market, damaging three shops. “An unidentified man had left a plastic bag with the watchman of the Gulshan CD Market on […]
SHEIKHUPURA, March 17: Scores of journalists hailing from Nankana Sahib and Sheikhupura districts took out a protest rally here on Saturday. They were carrying placards and banners inscribed with anti-government slogans to express solidarity with the journalists of Islamabad. Addressing at the local press club, speakers said assault on a private TV channel in Islamabad […]
HYDERABAD, March 17: Journalists and political and social activists brought out rallies across the province on Saturday against police attack on the offices of a private TV channel and an English daily in Islamabad. In Hyderabad, journalists staged a rally, which started from the local press club and got back to its starting point where […]
PESHAWAR, March 17: Journalists in large numbers took part in a demonstration on Saturday which was held to protest against an attack by policemen on a news organisation on Friday. The demonstration was organised by the Khyber Union of Journalists to denounce what was termed ‘state-sponsored terrorism unleashed against the countryÂ’s print and electronic media’. […]
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has called for the formation of an independent judicial commission headed by a judge of the High Court to investigate the attack on GEO TV’s Islamabad offices. In a joint statement on Saturday, Huma Ali, President of PFUJ, and Secretary-General Mazhar Abbas, said the commission […]
KARACHI, March 16: Bodies representing the media have come out with the strongest words against the government over Friday’s attack on the offices of Geo News in Islamabad, imposition of ban on a talk show a day earlier and threats issued to other news channels by the government. They called for disbanding of the Pakistan […]
KARACHI (March 17 2007): Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society Kazi Asad Abid, has strongly condemned the attack on the premises of Jang, The News and Geo at Islamabad. He also flayed the restrictions being imposed on the press. “The APNS considers such actions as strangulating the free press, reiterates its commitment to […]
ISLAMABAD (March 17 2007): President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday strongly condemned the police action against the Geo TV and apologised over the sad incident. In a telephone call to the Geo TV, aired live, the President condemned the incident in the strongest terms. “In my view this is a sabotage of whatever we stand […]
KARACHI (updated on: March 16, 2007, 18:04 PST): The Punjab police on Friday left three staffers injured and almost the entire building ransacked of a TV channel and an English daily in a raid, for unknown reasons, in Islamabad. Police, ransacking the entire infrastructure of the prominent media institutions, attacked the offices of Geo television […]
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