HYDERABAD- Senior journalists at an urgent meeting held at the Hyderabad press club, considered the situation arising out of the armed attack on the Daily Ummat Bureau office threats to the bureau chief Abdul Hafeez Abid, and other newspapers and mounting pressure on the newsmen with a view to preventing them from performing their professional […]
KARACHI- Kazi Asad Abid, Secretary General, All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), in a press statement has strongly condemned the mysterious burning of the offices of daily Balochistan Times and daily Zamana situated on 1.1. Chundrigar Road, Karachi, and noted with concern that such incidents appear an act of harassment to the newspapers. Earlier, in Hyderabad […]
KARACHI- The All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) strongly protests the exclusion of Freedom of Information Ordinance from the package of Press Laws being promulgated by the Federal Government, stated the APNS spokesman. The President APNS Hameed Haroon in a Press statement welcomed the announcement by the Federal Secretary Information Anwer Mahmood that the Federal Government […]
KARACHI- A large number of newspaper editors and pressmen in Karachi have expressed their shook and surprise over the tire on the eighth floor of Landmark Plaza on 1.1. Chundrigar Road in which the offices of Balochistan Times and Zamana were totally gutted and destroyed. “This is a strange target oriented fire that destroyed only […]
KARACHI- A division bench of Sindh High Court directed the trial court to record statements of prosecution witnesses within 30 days on a bail application filed by an activist of Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) Muhammad Ozair Qureshi an accused allegedly booked in a bomb blast case at the office of a local daily Nawa-i-Waqt in […]
KARACHI- Zahid Malik secretary-general Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) has expressed dismay and shock over a number of incidents of harassment of newspapers in Sindh in the last few weeks. In a statement after-visiting the burnt offices of daily Balochistan Times and daily Zamana at Land Mark Plaza, 1.1. Chundrigar Road, he said it […]
KARACHI- An emergency meeting of the Executive Committee of the APNS for the year 2001-02 is scheduled to be held on Thursday at 5:00 pm at the APNS office, Karachi, to discuss and decide the Wage Board Award announced by the chairman 7th, Wage Board on October 8, Secretary General, Kazi Asad Abid announced on […]
LONDON- A UK journalist was attacked and viciously beaten by a mob of Afghans in Pakistan before being saved by a religious leader, a news agency said. Robert Fisk, 55, a veteran foreign correspondent for “The Independent,” was assaulted when his car broke down on the road between the border city of Quetta and Charnan. […]
KARACHI- A massive fire gutted the offices of two newspapers in Landmark Plaza on 1.1. Chundrigar Road. The fire, whose cause could not be ascertained immediately, broke out on the eight floor of the nine-storied Landmark Plaza, which housed the offices of Balochistan Times and Daily Zamana around 9 pm. It also damaged some other […]
HYDERABAD- Various political and social organizations have condemned the attack on Hyderabad bureau of daily Ummat and demand an inquiry into the incident. The Hyderabad bureau of the daily was attacked, the staff severally beaten and the office ransacked. The incident took place at about 8.25 pm at the office located in the Circular Building, […]
ISLAMABAD — Federal Secretary for Information and Media Development Syed Anwar Mahmood said that Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority would be formulated soon after final approval from cabinet. Speaking at the oath taking ceremony of Pakistan Television (PTV) Executive Association, Anwar Mahmood said that the authority which will regulate and license private TV channels, will […]
HYDERABAD- About one dozen armed men barged into the office of “Daily Ummat” located on the second floor of circular building on Risala road at about 8:30 pm, ransacked the office, broke the furniture, computers, television, fax machine and telephone sets, beat up two persons Lala and Shahid and escaped from the scene issuing threats […]
KARACHI- The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has condemned the attack on a newsman of Quetta and called upon the Balochistan government to take action against the attackers. Kazi Asad Abid, secretary-general of the APNS, in a, statement expressed concern over the attack on Majeed Asghar, editor of daily Jang Quetta, and said such incidents […]
LAHORE- The Government of Pakistan will breathe a new life into the Repealed Press and Publication Ordinance (RPPO) by announcing a new set of equivalent press laws as “Eid gift’ to make its abiding commitment of the free press in Pakistan fulfilled. Federal Secretary Ministry of Information and Media Development Anwar Mahmood disclosed this here […]
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