KHAAR, Feb 25: A little known organisation, Mujahideen Bajaur, has distributed pamphlets in different areas of the Bajaur agency calling on drivers of public transport to stop playing music in their vehicles, residents said on Sunday. They said that the pamphlets warned that if the drivers continued with this un-Islamic activity, they would be responsible […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: The fact-finding mission of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has observed that media in Pakistan was facing a crisis of safety and social rights and expressed concern over the rising violence against journalists in the country. Speaking at a press conference, IFJ President Christopher Warren said the mission was concerned over […]
HYDERABAD: Seven armed men on Sunday kidnapped the younger brother of Additional Inspector General (AIG) Sindh jails, Ashiq Ali Memon. Amjad Memon was abducted from his petrol station near Hala bypass at about 8 p.m. The Sindh AIG confirmed that his brother was kidnapped and added that different police parties have been dispatched for his […]
ISLAMABAD (February 26 2007): The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFJU) and the International Union of Journalists (IUJ) held a roundtable discussion on the ‘State of press freedom in Pakistan’ here on Saturday. Minister of State for Information, Tariq Azeem, and opposition leaders Raza Rabbani, of PPPP, and Hafiz Hussain Ahmad, of MMA, were also […]
WASHINGTON: Among those imprisoned at Guantanamo is a journalist who was handed over to US forces by Pakistani authorities in December 2001. Sami al Hajj, a 38 year old Sudanese, was in Afghanistan as a photographer for the AI Jazeera TV network. According to a report by AP, he was stopped at the Afghan border […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) President Christopher Warren and UK’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Chief Chris Morley on Saturday expressed their concern over the growing incidents of violence against journalists in Pakistan. Speaking at a roundtable conference on “State of Press Freedom in Pakistan”, organised jointly by the IFJ and the […]
KARACHI: Journalists held a protest demonstration outside Governor House Friday, demanding the government lift a ban on three Urdu-language publications, Daily Islam, Weekly Islami and Monthly Al-Abraar. A meeting of working journalists’ bodies, KUJ and PFUJ, headed the demonstration at the press club. Speakers condemned and criticised the government’s decision, which they said was a […]
ISLAMABAD: Senators from both the treasury and opposition benches on Thursday criticised the government and private TV channels for calling Muhammad Sarwar, the assassin of the Punjab social welfare minister, a “maulvi”. Senator Dr Abdul Khaliq Pirzada of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), raising the issue on a point of order, said that a conspiracy […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has banned the portrayal of wicked characters as heroes in motion pictures and refused permission to release four new movies of this nature. “The central censor board has been ordered to decline permission to films that glorify villainous characters,” Culture Minister Dr G G Jamali told the National Assembly during the question […]
PESHAWAR: Tribal political authorities on Wednesday recovered Daily Express Resident Editor Sohail Qalandar and his friend Niaz Mohammad from Bara in Khyber Agency after 53 days in captivity. “The kidnappers kept me in a mountainous area and also tortured me. I was asked to sign an agreement to stop writing against kidnappers, smugglers and anti-state […]
KARACHI: The High Court of Sindh (SHC), on Monday adjourned hearing of appeals filed by Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh and three others convicts against their conviction in US journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapping and killing case due to non-appearance of appellants’ counsels. The adjournment came as Khawaja Sultan, Sher Afghan, Khawaja Naveed Ahmed advocates, appearing for […]
PESHAWAR (February 14 2007): The broader Action Committee of Khyber Union of Journalists, Peshawar Press Club, political parties, religious groups, trader bodies and civil society organisations unveiled the protest plans to secure a safe release of senior journalist Sohail Qalandar and his friend Niaz Mohammad. Making the decisions public at the Press club, the committee […]
PESHAWAR (February 14 2007): The broader Action Committee of Khyber Union of Journalists, Peshawar Press Club, political parties, religious groups, trader bodies and civil society organisations unveiled the protest plans to secure a safe release of senior journalist Sohail Qalandar and his friend Niaz Mohammad. Making the decisions public at the Press club, the committee […]
KARACHI: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) President Syed Faseih Iqbal and Secretary General Wamiq Zuberi condemned failure of the government and law-enforcement agencies to recover kidnapped Sohail Qalander, resident editor, daily Express, Peshawar. Despite a lapse of over six weeks and identification of the area where Qalander is held in captivity the government has […]
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