LONDON: A strong message of support for the Jang Group of Publications from the Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) was voiced in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The letter, also forwarded to the Secretary General of The Common wealth and The Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth affairs, reminded Prime Minister […]
KARACHI: Routine work at the bureau office of daily Ausaf Islamabad was affected on Friday as two digital phones of the office were closed. The Islamabad daily has been supporting the Jang group in its struggle for freedom of press. Earlier, editor of the newspaper were threatened and hurdles were created in the distribution of […]
KARACHI, Feb 5: The Action Committee of the Karachi Union of journalists (KUJ) has condemned the high-handed and arbitrary stance of the government towards the Jang Group and other newspapers and announced the launching of a token hunger strike campaign. The first batch of journalists will go on hunger strike on Monday at 6pm at […]
KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has no instructions from the government to stop the release of newsprint for the Jang Group of Newspapers and the Thursday’s incident was between the workers and the Customs officials, Chairman KPT Vice-Admiral Khalid Mir told The News. “We have not received any instructions from the government to stop […]
KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has no instructions from the government to stop the release of newsprint for the Jang Group of Newspapers and the Thursday’s incident was between the workers and the Customs officials, Chairman KPT Vice-Admiral Khalid Mir told The News. “We have not received any instructions from the government to stop […]
KARACHI (PPI)-The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (P’FCL) has withdrawn the monthly fixed flat rate facility for digital telephones in the country, The officials told the agency here on Wednesday. The decision will he treated as implemented from January 1999, however, the officials said the facility will remain in practice for non-digital telephones. They said the […]
ISLAMABAD: PTV has decided to honour madam Noor Jehan and Ustad Fateh Ali Khan by bestowing a life time achievement award to them at the PTV award ceremony to be held on February 6th. This was said by MD PTV Mirza Yosuf Baig, during a brief Press conference, on Tuesday. Commenting on the possibility of […]
IAHORE: About 4,000 journalists, political and Human Rights activists and lawyers staged a march here on Wednesday to condemn the official treatment of Jang Group of Newspapers. The rally was held on the call of the Committee for a Free Press of the Lahore Press Club in support of Jang Group against intimidation by the […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has asked the local lawyer M. D. Tahir to place on record the evidence and the documents to prove that his case was different from the case filed before the Supreme Court of Pakistan by the Jang Group’s management. These directions were passed by the court in a writ […]
ISLAMABAD, FEBRUARY 3: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the government to release 200 reels of newsprint to the Jang group of newspapers and issued notice to the chairman of the Central Board of Revenue why Customs authorities had not released 1,093 reels of newsprint as was directed by the court in its order passed […]
KARACHI: Sindh Home Department has banned pieces of literature allegedly mailed by Indian agency RAW to various persons in Pakistan/Azad Kashmir, containing subversive materials, official sources stated here on Wednesday. The literature banned: i) My Father – A Kashmir Betrayed. ii) Incomplete partition – The Genesis of the Kashmir Dispute 1947-1948. iii) A Law That […]
ISLAMABAD, (APP/PPI): Federal Minister for Information Mushahid Hussain Syed told the Senate on Wednesday that the government was strongly committed to the freedom of the Press and it intended to have the best of relations with the press. He said he had held a positive meeting with Editor-in-Chief of Jang, Mir Shakilur Rehman, on Wednesday […]
PESHAWAR: Journalists here staged a demonstration on Wednesday to condemn government’s action against Jang Group of Publications and vowed to continue their protest to preempt moves at muzzling the press. In a rare show of unity, journalists from the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ), its Dastoori faction and workers, associated with the newspaper industry, marched […]
KARACHI, FEBRUARY 3: Karachi Union of journalists has condemned the registration of sedition cases against three newspapers and the government’s “intimidatory” actions against Jang publications. A resolution adopted at the KUJ’s executive committee meeting, held under the chairmanship of KUJ president Wirasat Hasnain at Karachi Press Club on Wednesday, demanded an end to the government’s […]
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