LAHORE- Launching ceremony of a new Urdu magazine Badalti Dunya will be held at the Lahore Press Club on Sunday (today). The ceremony will be presided over by Ahmad Bashir while Fakhar Zaman will be chief guest. Source: The Nation Date:11/25/2001
TORKHAM BORDER- Some 120 foreign Journalists who were stranded in Afghanistan as they did not possess visas to reenter Pakistan, were rescued by Pakistan through special arrangement and arrived in Pakistan. The journalists had earlier rushed to Jalalabad on hearing of the fall of Kabul, but while they were still awaiting their, onward journey to […]
PESHAWAR- The dead bodies of four foreign journalists killed in Afghanistan were shifted from Torkham to Islamabad from where these will be sent to their native countries. The four journalists were killed by unknown criminals at Rekhmeen Tangi between Jalalabad and Sarobi towns of Kabul province. Their bodies were brought to Torkham in a Red […]
SWABI- The Abaseen Union of Journalists has expressed anguish over the delay in the registration of case against an army major who had physically assaulted Dawn’s senior staff reporter Faraz Hashmi. Mohammad Farooq and Haji Wali Mohammad, president and patron-in-chief of the union respectively, in a press statement said that the non-registration of case against […]
RAWALPINDI- The Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi bench, directed the Islamabad police to register an First Information Report (FIR) against an army major for attacking Dawn’s staff reporter under section 154 of the CrPC and record the complainant’s statement. Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan also directed the police not to arrest Faraz Hashmi till Friday when his […]
JALALABAD- The bodies of four international journalists have been recovered and were identified by colleagues, a day after their convoy was ambushed in a narrow mountain pass on the road to the Afghan capital, Kabul. The four journalists had been reported missing and feared dead in the wake of the ambush as they drove from […]
SHEIKHUPURA- The Pakistani Journalists Council has condemned the physical assault on Dawn’s staffer Faraz Hashmi by an army officer in Islamabad the other day. At meeting, councils district president G.R Shahzad and central president Rai Asad Kharal said if a punitive action was not taken against the army officer, the journalist community would not hesitate […]
KARACHI, Nov 19: Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) has condemned the manhandling of Dawn’s Islamabad staff reporter Faraz Hashmi by an army major and demanded that an First Information Report (FIR) be registered against the major. In a press release, KUJ president Sarfaraz Ahmed and general secretary Tahir Najmi demanded that President Pervez Musharraf take […]
ISLAMABAD- The senior superintendent police (SSP), Islamabad, Nasir Khan Durrani, has asked Dawn to join a conciliatory committee to probe into an attack on its reporter instead of registration of an First Information Report (FIR) in view of the sensitivity of the incident and the pressure involved. In a letter to the resident editor of […]
PESHAWAR- Unidentified armed men ambushed a convoy of foreign journalists in Sarobi area, south of Kabul, and reports are that four foreign and a local journalists, associated with Reuters had been killed. The convoy was heading towards Kabul from Jalalabad. Reports said that two of them were Italians, one Spanish, one Afghan photographer, working for […]
PESHAWAR- Foreign Journalists who had left Peshawar for Afghanistan have been moved to the Governor House, Jalalabad for security reasons. The journalists booked rooms in a newly constructed hotel near a police check post as Sabeen Number, the official hotel of Jalalabad, was under the control of occupational forces. As soon as their stay at […]
PESHAWAR- Japanese freelance journalist Daigen Yanagida arrested by the Taliban on October 22 was received by Japanese ambassador Sadkai Nemata at the Torkham border at 5.20pm on Saturday. The Taliban arrested the Japanese journalist in Kunar province for suspicion of spying and kept him at Jalalabad. When the opposition forces entered Nangarhar province some four […]
ISLAMABAD- Major political parties and unions of journalists and newspaper employees have condemned the incident in which an army officer attacked the senior Dawn journalist, Faraz Hashmi. Chief of Muttehida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain while condemning the attack on the journalist by the serving army officer, Major Fawad Hafiz, demanded immediate registration of first […]
ISLAMABAD- A senior Dawn staffer, Faraz Hashmi was physically assaulted by a serving army officer after their cars collided at a sharp U-turn near the Press Information Department offices. As the two cars stepped, following the not so serious collision, Maj. Fawad Hafiz rushed out of his car (S-4563) and started punching and kicking Mr. […]
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