• April 29, 2022
• advertising

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) here on Thursday advised societies operating without proper No Object Certificate (NOC) to refrain from advertising the illegitimate business on social media platforms. According to a press release, PTA has been approached by Lahore Development Authority (LDA) pursuant to the direction issued by Lahore High Court in a writ petition […]

• April 28, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday issued a stay order on the transfer of the suspended director news and two other senior officials of the state-run PTV to the far-flung area of Turbat, Baluchistan, by the previous government. Suspended Director News Rashid Baig and reporting head Shahid Ajmal Malik from the PTV’s Islamabad […]

• April 28, 2022
• Radio

ISLAMABAD: Officials of the information ministry on Wednesday informed a parliamentary committee that the project to convert radio from analog to digital technology would cost approximately Rs3.5 billion. The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting, which met here with Senator Faisal Javed in the chair, was briefed by the officials about the ‘Digital Radio […]

• April 28, 2022
• General News

Speakers at the media launch of Public Service Messages for TV and Radio focused on Peace and Interfaith/Sect Harmony on Wednesday asked the mainstream and social media to play an effective important role in inter-faith harmony in Pakistani society for the progress and prosperity of the country. They expressed such views while speaking on the […]

• April 28, 2022
• General News

Islamabad: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Wednesday that the present democratic dispensation strongly believed in freedom of expression and unlike the past four years, no news channel would be off-aired, no talk show or programme would be banned and no newspaper would be closed during its tenure. The minister was speaking […]

• April 27, 2022
• Social Media

PESHAWAR, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Swat who is also District Magistrate Tuesday took stern action against persons involved in exploitation and humiliation of a special person Bakht Rahman on social media platforms. He ordered to send three accused of humiliation and defamation including Iftikhar, Saeedullah and Gul Saeed from Khawaja Khel Tehsil to Buner Jail for […]

• April 27, 2022
• General News

British High Commissioner Christian Turner called on Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb in Islamabad on Tuesday. The British High Commissioner congratulated Marriyum Aurangzeb for assuming office as the Minister for Information and Broadcasting. He expressed the desire to work together for strengthening and expansion of bilateral relations between the two countries. During the […]

• April 26, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD—Television presenter Gharidah Farooqi has filed a complaint with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against PTI workers who displayed placards against her during the party’s recent Lahore rally. Farooqi warned on Twitter that those who spread insulting remarks about her would have to face the law. “I’ve complained in FIA against obnoxious, harassing, derogatory banners […]

• April 26, 2022
• General News

TELEVISION doesn’t get an Eid break, so those of us who make a living from this medium are more than familiar with the idea of an Eid show. As Ramazan enters its last week and the pious retreat to mosques or secluded corners of their homes to pray, TV wallahs enter a hectic race to […]

• April 26, 2022
• General News

KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has welcomed Sharjeel Inam Memon on assuming the charge of Information Department as Minister Government of Sindh, says a press release. Sarmad Ali, President and Mrs. Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani, Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have congratulated Sharjeel on appointment for the second term as Minister […]

• April 25, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD—Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) has strongly condemned the harassment of its former Vice President Aun Shirazi by the ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s chief of staff Shahbaz Gill in the presence of the former premier. In a statement issued by General Secretary Tariq Ali Virk, RIUJ said that Gill had harassed and abused […]

• April 25, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Paki­stan Federal Union of Journ­alists (PFUJ) presented its charter of demands to the government on Sunday, calling for an end to “state persecution of journalists”. A PFUJ delegation led by its president, Shahzada Zulfiqar, presented the char­ter of demands to Mub­ashir Hassan Khan, Prin­cipal Information Officer of the Press Information Depa­rtment (PID), at […]

• April 25, 2022
• General News

District administration has illegally occupied the building of Attock Press Club (APC) for the last eight years and despite of making all efforts by the journalists nothing could be done to get this building back. Chairman Attock Press Club Attock Sheikh Faisal stated this while talking the members of APC after hosting an iftar dinner […]

• April 24, 2022
• General News

That Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb put anything and everything to do with the controversial Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) to rest as soon as she took office shows that PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz) learnt valuable lessons not just from its previous stints in government, but also during its time in the political wilderness. It also […]