ATTOCK- The local journalist community has protested against an assassination attempt on a Kaller Syedan based-journalist, Akramul Haq Qureshi, allegedly by drug mafia. The central union of journalists (CUJ), Attock, in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Qazi Shoaib Khan, condemned the incident and attributed it to the negligence of law enforcement agencies. The […]
LAKKI MARWAT- Enraged workers of a student organisation attacked the offices of a news agency at Serai Naurang and set ablaze copies of various newspapers. Some 40 workers of Jamiat Talabal-i-Islam, a student wing of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, armed with rods and sticks, attacked the offices of Ashfaq News Agency on the Bannu-Dera Road. The attackers […]
QUETTA- The 12th meeting of the Seventh Wage Board for newspapers employees was held with its Chairman Justice Raja Afrasiab Khan in the chair. The meeting was attended by representatives of the newspapers workers, Chairman of All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (APNEC) Abdul Hameed Chapra, Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) President I.H Rashid, APNEC […]
ISLAMABAD- The government has decided to set up a separate university for print and electronic media by merging three academies functioning under the ministry of information and media development, according to Information Secretary Syed Mehmood. Academies of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, Pakistan Television and the one under the direct control of the ministry of information and […]
PESHAWAR- Paris-based Reporters sans Frontiers protested against the harassment of Hayatullah Khan, Correspondent of the national Daily Ausaf in the Tribal Areas (North-West of the country). In a letter addressed to the NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, RSF asked to stop physical threats and to drop out charges filed against the journalist as the […]
MUZAFFARABAD- Relatives of a former Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) minister beat and injured a senior journalist in the southern Rawalakot city of Azad Kashmir after inviting him at the ministerÂ’s residence on the pretext of holding talks. According to the First Information Report (FIR), lodged by Sardar Nazar Mohammad Khan, Rawalkot-based correspondent of an Urdu […]
KARACHI- Muhammad Aslam Kazi, Acting Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has announced that the Chief Executive of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf has lifted the ban which was imposed in 1997, on public sector organizations from participating in newspapers supplement through advertisements and sponsorship and allowed these organizations to henceforth place advertisements and […]
PESHAWAR- Sher Khan Afridi, Central President of Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ) condemned the attitude of political authorities of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) with journalist community and vowed to protect the rights of their members at any cost. Talking to a delegation of tribal journalists here, he said that the Political Agent of (NWA) Mushtaq […]
KARACHI- Maulana Rizwan Meraj, an accounts clerk of a religious Urdu weekly, Zarb-i-Momin, was gunned down in Nazimabad No 4. It is reported that he was a resident of Block G, North Nazimabad. When he reached office, two armed men riding on motorcycle fired shots on his head and fled. He was seriously injured and […]
GILGIT- The declaration of Weekly K-2, Gilgit Baltistan, was restored on Friday, after cancellation of its declaration by local Deputy Commissioner in August 2000. K-2 banned for almost an eleven-month period for reportedly carrying some “objectionable material” in its previous editions. In a board and philosophically worded editorial on Friday, the editor of Weekly K-2 […]
LAHORE- A recently formed association of Pakistani journalists in the United States has sought ‘fair’ retrial of Rehmat Shah Afridi, owner-editor of the The Frontier Post. The South Asian Journalists Union of North America (SAJUNA), as the body has been named, recently took up Mr. Afridi’s case with the Committee for Protection of Journalists (CPJ) […]
ISLAMABAD- A spokesman of the government said that it would continue to uphold the freedom and independence of the press. The spokesman, in a statement took strong exception to the contention of a news reporters organisations namely “The Reporters sans Frontiers” (RSF) that the chief reporter of an Urdu daily was shifted from reporting on […]
KARACHI- A seminar for journalists on Agra summit under the caption of “the Journalists’ Perspective” was held under the aegis of the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) on Friday at the PPF-Vicky Zeitlin Media Library. The role of the electronic and print media in the image projection and diplomatic affairs of a country was explicitly elaborated […]
MINGORA- An armed group of timber mafia on Thursday stabbed and seriously wounded a journalist for writing about cutting of trees in Dir. Ahmed Ali Shah, a correspondent of Peshawar-based Urdu daily Mashriq, in Khall, Dir had been receiving threats from timber mafiamen who wanted a news blackout of their activities in Dir district and […]
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