ISLAMABAD, July 26 2005: Federal Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari on Monday (July 25) said an overland fibre optic link through India would become operational within a few weeks while another connectivity channel was coming up by October. Speaking at the concluding ceremony of 15th All-Pakistan Software Competition and exhibition held under […]
ISLAMABAD, July 26 2005: The government has decided to launch two IT educational channels for the promotion of information technology in the country. “The channels will be on air in the mid of July next year and will start its test transmission from Lahore in next couple of months. The Virtual University has given the […]
Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 30 Date 7/25/2005 Download ppf newsletter no 30.pdf
By Nadeem Saeed MULTAN, July 23 2005: As many as 262 men and 125 women were killed while 201 women were subjected to criminal assault in south Punjab during the first half of the current calendar year. This was revealed by a recent report of the Multan task force of the Human Rights Commission of […]
Editorial THE raids on the offices of some newspapers and weeklies, and the arrest of several journalists and even newspaper hawkers in Karachi by the law enforcement agencies were both unwarranted and arbitrary. This view has nothing to do with one’s condoning the publication and distribution of hate literature. The point is that if any […]
NAWABSHAH, July 22 2005: Members of the Nawabshah Press Club have strongly condemned registration of an FIR against Bux Ali Jamali, Khalid Ahmed Farooqui and Ahmed Zia, president, general secretary and treasurer of the Nawabshah Press Club, respectively, by one Hakim Ali Khaskheli at the A-section police station. A meeting of the general body the […]
ISLAMABAD, July 22 2005: The government is all set to launch E-services in all the press clubs of the country for the benefit of print and electronic media. The project was approved by a high-level meeting chair by information technology minister Awais Ahmed Khan Laghari a few months back. A sum of Rs 34.5 million […]
PESHAWAR, July 21 2005: Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court, Justice Tariq Pervez, on July 20 took suo motu notice of assault and killing of an 11-year-old handicapped orphan girl in Chamkani. The chief justice directed the Chamkani police station SHO to appear in the court along with the case record on Thursday, said […]
KARACHI, July 21 2005: Two journalists were remanded to judicial custody by two judicial magistrates here on July 20 after they were charged with fanning religious hatred by publishing objectionable material. Judicial Magistrate (South) Zeeshan Akhtar remanded Abdul Lateef Abu Shamil, associate editor of Friday Special, till Aug 2. He was booked under section 153 […]
Islamabad, July 21 2005: The government on July 20 said that the work on laying alternative Internet fibre optics link between Lahore and Amritsar has been initiated and it would be fully functional by the end of this year. Talking to the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited […]
ISLAMABAD, July 20 2005: The government on July 19 admitted its inability in bringing back Pakistani children being used as camel jockeys and stranded in the Gulf states, but played down their number by putting the figure at only 1,000 as against 7,000 reported a few days ago. At a Senate Standing Committee on Labour […]
Police in Karachi, the largest city and media centre of Pakistan, raided the offices of a daily newspaper and three weekly magazines on July 19 and arrested two journalists for publishing hate literature. Police also picked up newspaper vendors from various localities for selling these magazines. Police raided the office of Urdu weekly “Friday Special”, […]
KARACHI, July 20 2005: The budget allocation on IT (information technology) related projects in Sindh province has risen to a record amount of Rs735 million, this was stated by the Sindh IT Minister, Mustafa Kamal here at a local hotel on July 19. Addressing a press conference to introduce the mega IT event – Connect […]
Date: July 19-21, 2005 Location: Vehari Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in coordination with FES organised a Journalism Training Workshop at Vehari, Punjab for local journalists and women from 19-21 July 2005. Vehari, with a population of about one lacs people, is an important market town deep inside Multan Division’s cotton growing area. Located at a […]
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