ISLAMABAD- The government constituted a task force to suggest measures and to ensure the security of newspapers offices. The interior ministry notified. Setting up of the task force, which was announced by Minister for Interior Lt. Gen (retd) Moinuddin Haider in a meeting with a joint delegation of APNS and CPNE. The terms of the […]
PESHAWAR- Expressing grave concern over recent bomb explosion at the daily Nawa-i-Waqt office in Karachi, the journalist community from Peshawar staged a protest demonstration in front of the Governor House. The protest demonstration was arranged by Peshawar Press Club (PPC) and it was also attended by stalwarts and members of Khyber Union of Journalists, as […]
PESHAWAR- The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) at its meeting held with its President Arif Nizami in the chair at Peshawar decided to observe a Protest Day to condemn the bomb explosion in the Karachi office of daily Nawa-e-Waqt as well as to denounce the bomb scare reports in the offices of daily Jang […]
KARACHI- Journalists and other workers expressed concern at the recent bomb blast at a newspaper office and hoax bomb calls at various other newspaper offices and the Karachi Press Club. They were speaking at a meeting held under the auspices of the Karachi Union of Journalists at the KPC. A resolution adopted on the occasion […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) has raised salary and allowances of its employees. According to the Charter of Demands agreed between the PTV management and workers unions, the management agreed to revise workers salary, allowances and canteen subsidy, said President Workers Union (Hqs) Musharraf Khan and Secretary General Mushtaq Qadri. Under the revised Formula, group […]
PESHAWAR- Like other parts of the country, people from all over NWFP and adjacent tribal areas have expressed resentment over tragic bomb explosion at the building of daily Nawa-i-Waqt, Karachi and urged the government o arrest the culprits. The Awami National Party (ANP) Central President, Asfandyar Wali Khan while expressing concern over the tragic bomb […]
KARACHI- Condemning the bomb blast at the office of a local newspaper in which three persons were killed and many others injured, political circles termed the act failure of the government to protect the lives and property of the citizens. The leaders of different political parties visited the site of the bomb blast and inquired […]
KARACHI: A joint emergency meeting of the executive committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), representing the editors and publishers of the print media in the country, strongly condemned the wanton bomb attack on the office of the Nawa-e-Waqt in Karachi. They called for immediate government […]
LAHORE- Former Federal Information Minister Javed Jabbar has contended that the present military government has been committed to free Press and has taken a number of initiatives to strengthen it since its inception last October. Jabbar, who recently resigned from his office, made this statement in his reply to a letter written by Mr Johann […]
ISLAMABAD- Javed Jabbar tendered his resignation as Minister for Information and Media Development and as Advisor to the Chief Executive on National Affairs, a Cabinet Division notification said on Saturday. “I have resigned on my own. No body asked me to do so,” Javed Jabbar said. The notification reads: “It is notified for general information […]
ISLAMABAD- On a direct complaint from the management of Herald Publications, Chief Justice Irshad Hassan Khan has summoned Attorney-General Aziz Munshi and also a representative of daily Dawn to a hearing in his chamber on October 26 at 1 pm. The Chief Justice called the Attorney General to his presence and, giving him a copy […]
KARACHI- More than three dozen journalists representing almost all the newspapers and news agencies of the country and also the Pakistan Television team of cameraman carrying security clearance cards of the Press Information Department were pushed out from the banquet hall where the Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf was the chief guest at a businessmen […]
KARACHI- The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors declared its total solidarity with the member publication Dawn and maintained that the raid by the joint Army-KESC team for the purported purpose of checking of electricity consumption was a covert method of pressure which ran counter to the assurances on Press freedom given by the Chief Executive […]
KARACHI- Chief Executive General Pervaiz Musharraf, amid thunderous applause, handed over the first All Pakistan Newspaper Society’s (APNS) ‘Best Personality of the Millennium Award’ to SH Hashmi, Managing Director of Orient MeCann-Erickson, at an impressive ceremony. Hashmi has been selected for the award, announced on February 21, on the basis of his ideal relationship with […]
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