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Development of cable industry top priority of Pemra: Iftikhar

ISLAMABAD, April 05,2005:Pakistan Electronic Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Iftikhar Rashid on Monday said Pemra was thrashing out criteria and broader framework for functioning of cable operators and to ensure provision of quality cable TV service to the public. Talking to representatives of cable operators here, Chairman Pemra said the cable operators and Pemra are partners and […]


Shoaib Hashmi to write for TV after 25 years

LAHORE, April 05,2005: Veteran playwright Shoaib Hashmi will pen the script for a comedy series that will be his first piece for television in nearly 25 years, TV celebrity Samina Ahmed told Daily Times on Monday. “I will produce the series, and he (Shoaib) will write the script.” Ahmed said that she would also produce […]


Veteran journalist passes away

KARACHI, April 04 2005 : Veteran journalist Safdar Barlas died here of prostate cancer on Sunday evening. He was 78. Barlas, who worked in Dawn on many senior positions for over four decades, graduated from Lucknow University in 1947. He subsequently obtained a Master’s degree from Karachi University. Earlier, he had worked with Dawn for […]


Private TV channel misreported PIA incident

Karachi, April 03 PPI: A private TV channel misreported an incident related to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Dubai-bound flight PK-213 that left Karachi on April 1 early morning.The channel has reported smoke coming out of the aircraft and the clip showed a Boeing 747 whereas the aircraft in reference was A130.The Smoke Detection System of […]


Khawar Mehdi acquitted

QUETTA, April 24,2005: An Anti-Terrorism Court here has acquitted three persons, including journalist Khawar Mehdi Rizvi, who were arrested along with two French journalists allegedly involved in making fake Taliban training video film in the Pakistani territory near Afghanistan border. Judge Mohammad Shaukat Rakshani on April 23 acquitted the three persons when the prosecution failed […]


Protest against campaign to close down FM stations

LANDI KOTAL, April 04,2005: Hundreds of Malikdinkhel tribesmen held a demonstration at Qambar Abad, near Bara Bazaar, on Sunday in protest against the Khyber Agency political administration’s campaign against FM radio stations in the area. The Bara political administration on March 27 issued a notice to the Malikdinkhel tribesmen to immediately stop transmissions from their […]


Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 14

Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 14 Date 4/4/2005 Download ppf newsletter no 14.pdf


Schoolgirl gangraped, culprits at large

HYDERABAD, April 04,2005: A 14-year-old schoolgirl was gang-raped at Ratodero town in Larkana district on March 31. The girl was abducted and then subjected to gang-rape allegedly by three men, Samar Shah, Kamran Shah and Arif Shah. The three men are, reportedly, from an influential family of Ratodero town and they are at large. The […]


Former PTV programme director dies

LAHORE, April 03 2005 : Fazal Kamal (81), founder of PTV drama, former PTV programme director and spouse of renowned artist Nayyar Kamal died in Islamabad on April 02. Lahore PTV general-manager Muhammad Ashraf Azeem and staff in an emergency meeting expressed their heartfelt and profound grief over the demise of Fazal Kamal. Source: Business […]


FM-103 case: Pemra directed to file report, comments

LAHORE, April 03 2005: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on April 01 called for report and comments from Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) seeking cancellation of notice issued to the petitioner’s private radio FM-103 for April 14. The court inclined to suspend the operation of FM-103, however, restrained the petitioner from re-broadcasting the BBC […]


Afreen Baig case hearing deferred

KARACHI, April 3, 2005: The Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) strike call affected court proceedings and hearings were ultimately deferred on April 02. The accused in Afreen Baig murder case, TV Producer and Afreen’s husband, Farooq Mengal, Khuda Bukhsh Umrani and Zahida, could not be produced before District and Sessions Judge (South), who eventually put off the […]


Four booked for assaulting girl

LARKANA, April 3, 2005: Police registered a case against four people for allegedly assaulting a girl in Ratodero on March 31 night. The victim in her FIR, lodged under the Hudood and Zina Ordinance, stated that she was kidnapped by Syed Arif Shah, Syed Samar Shah and Syed Kamran Shah while she was going to […]


FM-103 stopped from BBC broadcast

LAHORE,April 02,2005:Justice Syed Zahid Husain of the Lahore High Court on April 01 restrained FM-103 radio from broadcasting the news bulletin of the BBC Urdu Service. The court also issued notice to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority to explain its position in regard to its notice to the radio, requiring it to stop broadcasting […]


Rape victim attempts self-immolation

HYDERABAD, April 2, 2005 : The police foiled an attempt of self-immolation by a woman outside Hyderabad Press Club on April 01 and took her into protective custody, witnesses said. The 30-year-old woman attempted self-immolation in protest against the release of her alleged rapists by the police, her younger brother told the Daily Times. He […]