KARACHI, January 25 2006: The Standing Committee of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors CPNE has rejected the proposed amendment in draft Press Council saying that such amendments would give it an status of ‘Special Court’ against the newspapers instead of an independent and volunteer body. The meeting, presided over by CPNE chief Arif Nizami, noted […]
ISLAMABAD, January 25 2006: An international media watchdog renewed a demand for the release of a Pakistani journalist abducted last month after reporting a US missile strike in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan. A government official said Tuesday January 24 the journalist may have been abducted by Islamic militants. But the New York-based Committee […]
LAHORE, January 25 2006: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Tuesday January 24 announced continuation of a drive against the literature containing sectarian hatred and warned that strict action would be taken against those writing, publishing or printing it. He was speaking at a meeting of the Ittehad Bainul Muslimeen Committee which was attended by over […]
LAHORE, January 25 2006: The Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) held four-hour long negotiations with Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (CAP) on Monday January 24 to resolve the ban imposed on GEO network in Pakistan (outside Sindh province) by the cable operators. PBA was presented with a six-point demand by CAP (listed below) for consideration and […]
JACOBABAD, January 24 2006: Two illegal detainees were recovered from a police station near here, after a raid conducted there on the order of a court. According to details, one Bahauddin Tanviri had moved the district and sessions court Jacobabad that his two relatives, Karim Bux and Gulsher were detained illegally by SHO Mubarakpur at […]
GUJRANWALA, January 24 2006: Five women were molested in different incidents here and around on Monday January 23. In the first incident, ten people, including Khalil, Akhtar, Sarwar, Salman, Nasir, Shahid, Shan and Viki, allegedly entered the house of Jahangir Masih and molested his cousins Arshad Bibi and Iqbal Bibi. The Baghbanpura police are investigating. […]
Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, January 24 2006: Social activism saved an eight-year-old girl in Mardan district from being given in marriage under the custom of Sawara to pay for the murder committed by her uncle. Samar Minallah, an anthropologist working in the area, told Dawn that the girl’s family backed out of the Sawara deal when […]
NAWABSHAH, January 24 2006: A TV journalist was beaten and arrested by Railway Police while he was making footage of railway police action against the encroachment on Railway Land at Nawabshah on Monday 23 January 2006. According to press report, Railway Police snatched camera, press card and cash along with other papers from Rizwan Thebo […]
KARACHI, January 24 2006: Prominent writer, intellectual and critic Prof Riaz Siddiqui, 62, died on Monday January 23 at the Jinnah Hospital, where he was shifted after being injured in a traffic accident on Sharea Faisal in the morning. He has left the widow, a son and a daughter. He was buried in the Liaquatabad […]
TIMERGARA, January 24 2006: PTV’s Pushto language channel will begin transmission from March 23, says Federal Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmad. He was inaugurating a television booster here on Monday January 23. Shaikh Rashid said work was under way on launching separate PTV channels in regional languages. He said the booster had cost Rs30.5 million […]
LAHORE, January 24 2006: It would take years for Pakistan to improve its record with regard to press freedom, as it has been placed at 150th in the world ranking by an international NGO, Reporters Without Borders. The French organisation in its third annual worldwide index of press freedom has observed that in Pakistan, army […]
ISLAMABAD, January 23 2006: At least 4,383 Pakistani women were victimized by the social vice of honour killing during last four years, according to an official report. The report says that more than half of these cases occurred in Sindh. It says that despite continuing campaigns by the government and non-government bodies, the evil continued. […]
SYDNEY, January 23 2006: A total of 150 journalists were killed last year in wars, assassinations, natural disasters and accidents while on duty, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said on Monday January 23. The year was the worst on record for an increasingly dangerous profession, the IFJ said in a statement released here to […]
NEW DELHI, January 23 2006: Films from India’s prolific Bollywood movie industry – officially banned for decades in Pakistan but still watched by millions there – have become legal, the head of a Pakistani producers’ group said on Sunday January 22. Pakistan outlawed public screenings of Indian films in 1965. But now, both countries are […]
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