ISLAMABAD: Directions have been issued to the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) to release the pending dues of employees before Ramazan 20. A Senate committee on Friday also suggested that vehicle owners should be charged up to Rs5,000 for subscription to Radio Pakistan because the national broadcaster needed to be steered out of a financial crises. […]
Pakistan has expressed concern over the arrest and about the safety of senior journalist and human rights defender, Irfan Meraj and dozens of other Kashmiri journalists and human rights activists, including Khurrum Perviaz, languishing in prisons across India and Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Foreign Office Spokesperson, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, at her weekly press […]
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has conferred civil awards on 135 national and foreign citizens on Pakistan Day in recognition of their excellence and gallantry in their respective fields. The awards were conferred at an investiture ceremony held at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Thursday. The awards were conferred on politicians including Sartaj Aziz, late Mir Hasil […]
KARACHI: The APNS expresses its pleasure on the conferring of Hilal-e-Imtiaz to the veteran editor and former President of APNS, Mujib-ur-Rahman Shami by the President of Pakistan. Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani, President and Sarmad Ali, Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have congratulated Shami on receiving the prestigious award in recognition of his lifelong […]
There has been a sea change in how we view our broken digital public spaces. We now understand that the intentional design practices of large tech companies are amplifying misinformation and vitriol to keep us engaged and online to increase their advertising revenues. A Seattle school district recently filed suit against Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, […]
TOBA TEK SINGH: Samundri city police on Wednesday booked a reporter and cameraman of two private TV channels for allegedly instigating the people seeking free flour under Ramazan package against the government. The complainant, a police Sub-Inspector Wali Muhammad, alleged in the FIR registered under section 16 of The Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance […]
ISLAMABAD: Bol News Islamabad Bureau Chief Siddique Jan has been discharged by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) today, Bol News reported. As per details, the detained journalist was presented before the court where his counsel maintained that Siddique Jan has no role in the case being built against him. Meanwhile, the police demanded a five-day remand […]
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police and federal information secretary to respond to a petition seeking a ban on interviewing suspects in police custody by journalists and individuals running social media channels. A bench consisting of Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan and […]
KARACHI: Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani and Sarmad Ali were elected unanimously as president and secretary general, respectively, of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) on Monday, according to a press release. The annual meeting of the body’s general council elected Imtinan Shahid as senior vice president, Muhammad Aslam Kazi as vice president, S.M. Munir Jilani as […]
KOHAT: Unidentified terrorists attacked the house of a journalist, damaging the abode partially here on Tuesday. The police said that unknown terrorists carried out a blast on the main gate and then opened fire with automatic weapons on the house of Syed Yasir Shah, district correspondent for The News International and Geo. However, the inmates […]
An Islamabad anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday granted police one-day physical remand of Siddique Jan, a journalist affiliated with Bol News, who was apprehended last night in connection with the violence and rioting that erupted outside the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) when former premier Imran Khan attended a hearing related to the Toshakhana case. Hours-long […]
Tall. Handsome. Royal. Fearless. Full of wit. Master creator of headlines. Thoroughly professional subeditor. This was Masudullah Khan, who left us sad this month. I had the pleasure of staying with him for about a week in July 2021 at his house in Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore. His wife was a great host. I was […]
National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has proposed to facilitate dialogue and reconciliation among political factions and stakeholders to overcome the current crisis and find a way forward. Speaking to representatives of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), he emphasized the importance of a collaborative political culture where compromise is possible and stressed that […]
Veteran author, broadcaster and journalist Syed Rashid Ashraf, known for his long association with BBC Urdu, passed away early on Saturday morning at his home in the Bromley area of London. He was 91. Mr Ashraf joined BBC Urdu in the 60s and remained associated with the publication even after retirement, mentoring young journalists. Born […]
