KARACHI – A seminar on ‘Karo Kari’ is being held under the aegis of the Secretariat of Provincial Ombudsman Sindh in Karachi at a hotel on Friday, September 17. An announcement on September 16, said that the moot will be presided over by the Sindh Governor, Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan. Sindh Minister for Planning and […]
HARIPUR – A two-day workshop on capacity building of district correspondents of Hazara Division concluded in Haripur on September 13, evening at the Bara Gali summer campus of Peshawar University. The workshop was organized by the department of journalism and mass communication, in collaboration with a German NGO Fried rich Ebert Stiftung and Havelian Press […]
MIRPURKHAS – The private cable operators in City were violating the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) rules and regulations by running the private advertisement directly. This was stated by the officeÂbearers of Crime Control and Social Welfare Association Mirpurkhas Afaq Ahmed, Qamaurddin, Lala Akbar Khan Pathan and Syed Muhammad Jaffar Hussain Shah, while talkÂing […]
ISLAMABAD – The government on September 14, informed the National Assembly that opposition to the proposed enforcement of Hudood laws was being given serious consideration and a bill would soon be moved to amend the controversial law. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Sher Afgan Niazi said this in response to a bill sought to be moved […]
PESHAWAR – A video based on a song was screened by the Aurat Foundation to depict the plight of women in the male-dominated society, at the Peshawar Press Club on September 14. Bibi Sheernay is a famous folk song picturised in the mountainous areas of the province. It depicts women as hard workers who get […]
HYDERABAD – Sindh Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president MNA Asadullah Bhutto has demanded that the government should allow parliamentarians, journalists and human rights activists to visit tribal areas where an army operation is going on. Talking to journalists at the residence of party MPA Abdul Rehman Rajput here on Tuesday, he said the MMA believed that those […]
SUKKUR – A journalist and his staff member were attacked by four police gunmen in his office on September 14, 2004. According to the details, two days back, Allah Waraio Bozdwar a journalist had an argument with Taluka police officer Niaz Chandio. As a result, Niaz Chandio came to his office with four armed gunmen […]
JAMSHORO – The Sindh University Jamshoro has not yet started the MA journalism classes in its affiliated colleges despite laps of three academic years, highly placed sources told in Jamshoro on September 13. They said that the University had banned private admissions and examinations of Masters in Journalism programme carried out for last many years, […]
ISLAMABAD – The ministry of information technology has approved 15 projects worth Rs266.06 million for the uplift of information technology and telecom sector in the private and public sectors of the country. The approval was accorded at a meeting of the Departmental Development Working Party (DDWP) presided over by Secretary for Ministry of Information Technology […]
KARACHI – The Karachi Union of Journalists is holding a seminar on “Media Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities”, on the eve of the 10th death anniversary of former Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists president Nisar Osmani, on September 16 at 4 p.m. at the Karachi Press Club, according to a press release. The speeches will be […]
QUETTA – Participants of a meeting organized in Quetta by Oxfam have called for a joint struggle by all the stakeholders of the society against honour killing. The chief of programme of Oxfam in the country, Dr Abid Qayum Suleri, said the organization, with its partners and stakeholders, would launch a campaign to end violence […]
KARACHI — In the present day world, women are playing a significant role in the progress and development of society. They are working side by side with men in every domain of life besides successfully discharging their prime duty of grooming future generations, and joining hands with society for their social uplift”, says a ISPR […]
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) today urged President Pervez Musharraf to get the armed forces spokesman (ISPR), Gen. Shaukat Sultan, to withdraw comments in which  in an attempt to defend the army’s tough restrictions on journalists in the northwestern Tribal Areas  he accused the Pakistani press of ‘selling the national interest in […]
KARACHI – The governor of State Bank of Pakistan, Dr. Ishrat Hussain, has expressed hope that publication of South Asian Journal will disseminate new ideas on the issues that confront the South Asian countries and bring people of the region closer. He was speaking at the formal launching ceremony of South Asian Journal, a publication […]
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