• September 19, 2023
• Radio

ISLAMABAD   –   Caretaker Minister for In­formation and Broadcast­ing Murtaza Solangi, in his address to an international conference in Amsterdam on Saturday, highlighted the significant achieve­ments made by Radio Paki­stan in its digital migration journey. Addressing the international conference on Radio Resource Control and Management via Zoom, he said Radio Pakistan had achieved significant mile­stones in […]

• September 19, 2023
• RTI

In 2010, the insertion of Article 19A in the Constitution, through the 18th Amendment, was a significant development for promoting transparency, accountability and for considering access to information as a constitutional right in Pakistan. Article 19A guarantees the right to information (RTI) and enables citizens to access information held by public bodies, subject to reasonable […]

• September 18, 2023
• Broadcasting

The Islamabad high court has suspended the order of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) against the TV drama Hadsa, which is closely based on the motorway rape case. On August 30th, the regulators banned the drama serial and said in the notification that the drama had caused public outrage. Lawyer Khadija Siddiqui filed […]

• September 18, 2023
• Arts and Entertainment, Broadcasting

The now-banned drama serial ‘Hadsa’ caused a lot of stir during its short run on a private entertainment TV channel, for similarities with the terrifying rape incident which occurred in September 2020 on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway. Complaints against the drama were filed by activists with Pemra, the regulator of electronic media in Pakistan, which soon […]

• September 17, 2023
• General News, views and opinions

Nearly a decade ago, Shehzada Zulfiqar, a Balochistan-based reporter and broadcaster, was abducted by an unknown armed group from Khuzdar district. Zulfiqar is a veteran war correspondent with over 30 years of covering conflicts in southern Afghanistan and Balochistan. Despite being well aware of the law of the land through his long career of reporting […]

• September 17, 2023
• General News

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists Workers (PFUJW) on Saturday condemned the attack on the house of Azam Chaudhry, president of the Lahore Press Club. President PFUJW Shamim Shahid, secretary general Raja Riaz, and office-bearers of the affiliated units said some unknown assailants tried to barge the Mr Chaudhry’s house, and when the family […]

• September 17, 2023
• Right to Information

Islamabad: Pakistan Information Commission (PIC), a body entrusted by law with the assignment of ensuring the citizens’ right to know, is tasting the medicine it has been prescribing for others: to share the information. Now, as it has been asked to share the information about one of its three commissioners, the PIC has started dilly-dallying […]

• September 16, 2023
• General News

Journalists on Friday held a protest demonstration in front of Sukkur Press Club, demanding immediate arrest of the killers of their senior colleague Jan Muhammad Mahar shot dead here in an armed attack on August 13 night. The protestors described the fatal attack on Mahar as a failure of Sukkur police and vowed to start […]

• September 15, 2023
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The top court of the country on Thursday acquitted Ammad Yousaf, the president of a priate television channel, in a sedition case and terminated actions against him. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan announced the verdict after hearing arguments from both sides. Justice Shahid Waheed, a member of the bench, questioned: if […]

• September 15, 2023
• Obituaries

Senior journalist and former reporter for The News Shahid Hussain passed away in Karachi after losing his battle with lung cancer on his 73rd birthday on Thursday. According to his family, he was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago, and his treatment was underway at a hospital in the city. On Thursday his […]

• September 14, 2023
• General News

KARACHI: Prof Shahida Kazi, former journalist, news producer of Pakistan Television (PTV) and head of Karachi University’s Department of Mass Communication, was on Wednesday awarded lifetime membership of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) in recognition of her services to education and journalism. Speakers at the ceremony—mostly her students working in the mainstream media and teaching […]

• September 13, 2023
• General News

  The Speakers at a seminar to commemorate Defence Day and the Death Anniversary of the father of the nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah urged civil society and media to safeguard the prestige and honour of the martyrs and national heroes for transferring the true guiding examples to the coming generations. The Pakistan Federal Union […]

• September 12, 2023
• General News

President of Quetta Press Club Abdul Khaliq Rand says that many of our comrades have escaped from us in bomb attacks and target killings in Balochistan. Now the field is not safe in its place, not even the newsroom. The incident that happened in the news agency office is a clear example of this. All the journalist […]

• September 12, 2023
• General News

While the age-old adage, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse,” holds true, a painful reality emerges in the case of Balochistan regarding the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2021. This extensive legislative mandate, aimed at enlightening the province, currently finds itself trapped in a vague twilight zone two and a half […]