WASHINGTON: “The Secret Service has investigated the matter and determined that background cheeks and clearance were not completed in a timely manner regarding certain members of the (Pakistani) press that were denied entrance to the White House,” the Department of State said in a formal diplomatic note to the Pakistan government on January 22, 1999. […]
ISLAMABAD, JANUARY 28: The National Assembly on Thursday discussed the on-going tussle between Senator Saifur Rehman and Jang group of publications amid a half hearted walkout by newsmen from the press gallery. The government was persistent in guarding it’s action against the group while terming it a legal course within the parameters of law but […]
ISLAMABAD: Cases of tax evasion against Jang Group of Newspapers are legal and justified as these were filed on the basis of solid documentary proofs of tax embezzlements by this group through different tactics. This was stated by Regional Commissioner Income Tax Corporate Region Karachi Dawood Khan speaking in PTV discussion on Wednesday. Other participants […]
ISLAMABAD: The Jang group and journalist’s unions filed petitions in the Supreme Court on Wednesday see relief against the government’s efforts to stifle the freedom of press in The petition filed on. behalf of Mir Shakil ur Rehman, chief executive of the Jang group of companies, outlines the arbitrary actions that the government has taken […]
ISLAMABAD: President Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Abdul Hameed Chapra and Secretary General All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (APNEC) Pervaiz Shaukat on Wednesday filed a joint petition before the Supreme Court for a declaration to abolish the Ministry of Information. Filed under Article 184(3) of the Constitution, the petition sought Supreme Court’s direction to […]
ISLAMABAD (APP): Microsoft, the world leading software company, Tuesday announced to start its operations in Pakistan, to drive the growth of the advanced technology industry and market in Pakistan. The decision came after a three-member high-powered Microsoft delegation called here on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The company will initiate its business by opening an office […]
LONDON: The Ehtesab Bureau Chief Senator Saifur Rahman denied that he had initiated any endeavor to resolve the tax cases against the Jang Group. He told the BBC that the Jang Group had expressed a desire to settle the matter and had requested him to take back the income tax notices and clear all the […]
KARACHI: Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ-Dastoori) has vehemently condemned the alleged actions of the government against Jang Group of Newspapers and expressed solidarity with the group. In a statement on Tuesday, the KUJ President Rashid Aziz and Sec. General Sohail Afzal reiterated that journalist community would continue to strive for the freedom of press . […]
KARACHI (PPI): Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in collaboration with the Thompson Foundation UK and the common wealth Media Development Fund will organize a two week workshop for journalists in Karachi from March 8, 1999 on news and feature writing with an emphasis on covering issues relating to gender, minorities and human rights. The object of […]
ISLAMABAD, JANUARY 25: Mir Shakil ur-Rehman, editor-in-chief of the Jang group of publications, stated here on Monday that his organization would go to a court of law over the government’s demand for payment of Rs. 2 billion in taxes. “We will,” he said at a seminar on “The government versus the press”, organized by the […]
ISLAMABAD, JANUARY 23 (APP): The PTCL has budgeted Rs. 14 for installation of 500,000 telephone lines during the year 1998-99, official sources said here on Saturday. Private sector participation of 270,000 lines and WLL project of 160,000 lines was also under active consideration, sources said. Provision of additional telephone lines, improvement of the existing system […]
KARACHI, JANUARY 23 (PPI): The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and All Pakistan Newspapers Society have strongly condemned the threat to life hurled at “Khabrain” chief editor Zia Shahid on the floor of the Punjab Assembly. Taking note of the recent proceedings of the provincial legislature in Lahore, CPNE president Syed Fasih Iqbal and […]
KARACHI: A.M.A. Qaiyum, a veteran journalist and trade union leader, died here on here on Tuesday. He was laid to rest at Sakhi Hasan graveyard on Wednesday. Fateha Soyem will be held after Friday prayers at the Sharfabad mosque for men while for the ladies arrangements have been made at his residence house no. 355, […]
ISLAMABAD, JANUARY 15: A local press photographer sustained serious burn injuries in a demonstration held here under the aegis of Imamia Students Organization (ISO) when the protesters set on fire effigies of the US president Bill Clinton and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A number of press photographers in an effort to catch a good […]
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