LAHORE, May 03,2005: According to the monthly reports of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), a total of 91 karo-kari cases were registered in the rural areas of the country during the first three months of 2005. These killings in the name of honour were reported by HRCP correspondents and newspapers from January to […]
KARACHI: May 3, 2005: The April 22 incident where a man allegedly killed his wife and four sons in the KMC Quarters was a ‘well-thought planÂ’, say the police officials associated with the investigation of the case. They ruled out altogether that the man, Nadeem Ahmed, had committed the murders under any psychological disorder. Police […]
KARACHI, May 03, 2005: Political leaders, media experts and senior journalists felt that to attain the objective of good governance, print and electronic media should join hands for ensuring freedom of expression and access to information. This was a general opinion of the speakers in the discussion organized by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in memory […]
SLAMABAD, May 05 2005: According to a report titled “Media in Pakistan: Growing Space, Shrinking Freedoms”, more journalists and media organisations were attacked and intimidated during May 3, 2004 to May 3, 2005 involving 120 journalists as against 70 journalists during May 3, 03 to May 3, 04. The report, released on the occasion of […]
KARACHI, May 3, 2005: The press in Pakistan was subjected to violence, pressure and harassment in 2004-5 and journalists were subjected to physical torture despite ‘a façade of freedom of the press’. This was stated by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in its annual report issued on the eve of the International Press […]
New York, May 3, 2005: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today’s attacks by police on journalists in the cities of Lahore and Islamabad. During peaceful demonstrations in honor of World Press Freedom Day, approximately 50 journalists were injured when police baton-charged demonstrators marching in the center of Lahore, and as many as 60 journalists […]
Shafqat Munir This May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day, marks the launch of a new website to facilitate exchanges among journalists within the country and with the foreign press. The website, www.asiamediaforum.org, was conceptualised at a meeting in Koh Samui, Thailand in October 2004, at the Asia Media Forum (AMF) initiated by editors from across […]
Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 18 Date 5/2/2005 Download ppf newsletter no 18.pdf
KARACHI, May 02,2005: Chief Executive Officer TATA Consultancy Services, Subramanian Ramadorai on May 1 invited Pakistani IT, financial, textile and other institutes to earn benefit from the TCS experiences and expand their respective industry through TCS’s generated global business practices. S. Ramadorai, who is also Chairman National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASCOM), was […]
LAHORE, May 2, 2005: The South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) arranged a dinner for Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) and Lahore Press Club (LPC) office bearers at Hotel Avari on May 1. SAFMA secretary general Imtiaz Alam, PUJ president Raja Jalil Hasan Akhtar, senior vice president Anjum Herald Gill, LPC president Arshad Ansari, secretary […]
KARACHI, May 01, 2005: National Productivity Organisation (NPO), Ministry of Industries, Production and Special Initiative has launched web based software Information Communication Technology (ICT) to enhance manufacturing, productivity and quality in the Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) sector. The NPO launched ICT software in collaboration with Belmah Strategies (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. and MoU was inked […]
ISLAMABAD, April 30, 2005: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on April 29 took serious notice of cases of nepotism and administrative and financial lapses in the information ministry and its subordinate departments. The committee gave directives to Information Secretary Shahid Rafi, PTV Managing-Director Arshad Khan and PBC Director-General Tariq Imam to end the undue patronization […]
BAHAWALPUR, April 30, 2005: There are bleak chances of suicide in the case of a lady health visitor Tasleem Bibi who was found dead in a room of Ahmedpur East police station. One of the doctors involved in the postmortem examination of the woman’s body at the Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital told Dawn, requesting anonymity, that […]
KARACHI, April 30, 2005: Sindh Minister for Information Technology, Syed Mustafa Kamal, said on April 29 that 15 more Free IT Awareness Centres would be opened in the next three months in the province. Inaugurating the 23rd Free IT Awareness Centre at Jehangir Road No 2, he said opening of such centres would help jobless […]
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