KARACHI- Kidnappers holding missing US journalist Daniel Pearl Friday demanded two million dollars within 36 hours for his safe release, a police officer said. The anonymous call late Friday to the US consulate in Karachi, also demanded the release of the former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior police official told the […]
KARACHI- A suspect wanted in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping case has died. When a police party reached his residence in Ahmedpur Sharqia to investigate, fateha was being offered for the suspect Arif, said Sindh police chief Syed Kamal Shah, here on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference at the Central Police Office, the Inspector General […]
ISLAMABAD- Director-General ISPR Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi said here on Thursday that investigations conducted so far in the mysterious disappearance of American journalist Daniel Pearl strongly indicated “Indian linkage” to the episode. Gen Qureshi, who was speaking at the daily press briefing at the Foreign Office along with its spokesman Aziz A. Khan, was responding to […]
KANDAHAR- Pakistani journalists were banned to attend the daily briefings of US Marines at ‘Kandahar airport’ after being declared as security risk. Major Chris Hughes conveyed the decision, which was attributed to higher US authorities, to Pakistani newsmen at the main airport gate the other day. The journalists have been denied permission on one pretext […]
Islamabad- A new genre of Jihadi journalism with its wide range of media products has grown up on Pakistani media landscape with some of the militant organisations bringing out a wide range of publications, a study by a German Non Governmental Organization (NGO) reveals. The study titled “Mediaeval Mindset, Modern Media: Kabul to Kashmir,” published […]
ISLAMABAD- A joint resolution was adopted by the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) and Ministry of Information saying the evening newspapers would avoid sensationalism while news reporting and would not publish obscene material. The resolution was adopted at the joint meeting held with Interior Minister Moinuddii Haider in the […]
HYDERABAD- Hundreds of people from all walks of life at a public meeting pledged to defend the freedom of press and condemned the registration of a false case against the editors of daily Kawish. The public meeting was held under the aegis of the Hyderabad Press Club. Addressing the meeting, press club president Lala Rehman […]
HYDERABAD- A strike was observed outside the press club to protest against the registration of a false case against the editor and executive editor of daily Kawish and harassment and victimization of the working journalists in interior Sindh. A large number of working journalists, workers associated with newspapers industry, hawkers, including the central president, All […]
KARACHI- Member-editors of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) from the province of Sindh strongly deplored the new tendency on the part of the police to indirectly intimidate and pressurise newspapers and newsmen by registering false cases against them and including their names in the First Information Reports (FIRs). The meeting specially took note […]
PESHAWAR- On the orders of the chairman, Implementation Tribunal for Newspapers Employees, Justice (retd) Jawed Nawaz Gandapur, appointment letters were issued to 12 employees of a local Urdu newspaper. The chairman was informed by the management of daily Al-Akhbar that it had issued appointment letters to 12 of its employees. The employees had filed applications […]
QUETTA- The police have arrested an accused involved in shooting at a newspaper editor and threatening the BBC correspondent and other newsmen. Balochistan police inspector general said at a press conference that the accused had admitted opening fire on Majeed Asghar, editor of an Urdu daily, and threatening BBC Correspondent Haroon Rashid. “The accused belongs […]
HYDERABAD- Hundreds of working journalists and employees of different newspapers took out a protest rally to condemn the registration of a case against the editor and executive editor of daily Kawish and the police action against journalists all over Sindh on different occasions. The journalists claimed that the rally marked the beginning of a long […]
HYDERABAD- A large number of working journalists of Hyderabad held a protest meeting at the local press club against the registration of a false criminal case against the editor of daily Kawish , Ali Kazi, and executive editor Ayub Kazi. The meeting was of the opinion that the case was registered against the editor and […]
ISLAMABAD- A 27-member team of foreign journalists comprising print and electronic media from the United States, Denmark, Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Egypt, China, Turkey and Abu Dhabi visited the Line of Control at Chakothi sector in Azad Kashmir. The visiting journalists were briefed on the current tense situation on the LoC and the historical background […]
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