CHITRAL- Police stopped two foreign journalists from crossing into Afghanistan via Shah Salim, Garam Chashma. Richard and Michel from the UK were trying to cross into Badakhshan province, but the police advised them to return Peshawar. The journalist told that they had home secretary permission for going to the border and there was no justification […]
ISLAMABAD- The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (APNEC) have regretted the refusal of the employers to implement the 7th Wage Award announced by the Wage Board chairman Justice Raja Afrasiab Khan on October 8. “The newspaper owners had never willingly given the wage awards announced in the past […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan is considering deporting the journalists found near Pak-Afghan borders or who cross into Afghanistan without valid documents in violation of the immigration laws. “We are considering that if some incident occurs where a journalist is found near the border or crosses the border without papers we will have to cancel his visa and […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN- Peter Palm Halm South Eastern Correspondent for Daily Independent, New Delhi, who arrived here in D.I.Khan the other day, was arrested by the local police on Thursday evening but was released later on. He was accompanied by his Pakistani interpreter who belonged to Norowal (Sialkot). Peter Palm Halm arrived here and after […]
ISLAMABAD- The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has assured the government that the Press in Pakistan will play a positive and helpful role during the critical situation the country is faced with. In a joint statement, the president of the CPNE, Mujib-ur-Rahman Shami, and the secretary general, Zahid Malik, have welcomed the written assurance […]
KARACHI- A joint meeting of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) and the Karachi Committee of the All-Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (Apnec) has thanked President General Pervez Musharraf, Federal Labour Minister Omar Asghar Khan, Chairman of the Seventh Wage Board Justice Afrasiab Khan and Information Secretary Syed Anwar Mahmood on the announcement of the wage […]
ISLAMABAD- Taliban have allowed foreign journalists to visit Afghanistan to see if them is any terrorist camp. “Foreign journalists will be welcome here if they want to know about our claims that civilian targets have been hit and that there are no training camps here. These journalists can contact our Islamabad- based embassy or our […]
ISLAMABAD- PakistanÂ’s Foreign Office has warned journalists, especially the foreigners now covering the Anglo-American operations against Afghanistan, with action if they violated its consular regulations. Addressing his daily briefing the Foreign Office spokesman said that the Afghan authorities had arrested within their territory four journalists for entering their country with proper documents. Two of these […]
KARACHI- The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has rejected the 7th Wage Board Award and expressed its profound disappointment and distress at the crippling wage increase announced for newspapers’ employees by the Chairman of 7th Wage Board. In a Press release, APNS Secretary-General Kazi Asad Abid stated that an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee […]
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN AGENCY- Tribal Union of Journalist (TUJ) South Waziristan Agency has threatened that if the tribal journalists were not released in two days then they would start protest movement in Kanigaram. Addressing the Tribal Union of Journalist meeting the union president Irfan Barki said that three journalists of Khyber agency were arrested by the […]
ISLAMABAD- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the immediate release of three journalists, who were arrested on Oct 5 by authorities in the Khyber Agency along with two French journalists working for the Paris-based television news channel (LCI). They included Rifatullah Orkazai, a reporter for the Peshawar-based Khyber Mail; Muhammad Iqbal Afridi, […]
PESHAWAR- Pakistan border security forces arrested a French journalist at Ghulam Khan in the North Wazirsitan Agency (FATA). Official sources said that Algerian-born French journalist Aziz Zamouri was trying to enter Afghanistan illegally. He was handed over to the joint interrogation team. It may be mentioned here that the Taliban authorities had arrested three journalists, […]
ISLAMABAD- Taliban charged an arrested French reporter and two Pakistani guides with espionage, Islamabad based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said. Taliban said that they had found spying equipment with the three. The Afghan authorities plan to try them in a special court. “They have been charged with spying,” Taliban intelligence chief Mullah Taj Meer was […]
JAMRUD- Abdul Wadood, Ameer of Jamat-i-Islami (JI), Khyber Agency, and Haji Shakirullah Khan Afridi, chief of Tehreek Azad Qabail and an eminent leader of JI, in a joint statement have said that like other parts of the country the people of tribal areas also keen to get themselves informed about the current situation of the […]
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