PESHAWAR – The NWFP government plans to convert the recently established the girls campus of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) into a women’s medical college within a year after it fulfils the criteria of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC). “Those female medical students who do not want to study in mixed environment would […]
KARACHI – The annual general meeting of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) will be held on Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at the Islamabad Club at 11 am to consider a four-point agenda which includes the consideration of the annual report of the CPNE for 2003-04 to be presented by Secretary-General Jabbar Khattak, the […]
ISLAMABAD – Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on August 21, said that the policy for regularisation of over 1000 Resource Persons in PTV would be presented to the new government. This he stated while talking to a delegation of newly elected PTV Employees Union in Islamabad. The minister advised that the PTV […]
KARACHI – Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on Environment and Alternate Energy Noman Saigal has said that to disseminate information on environmental issues with the judicious use of media, a series of seminars and workshops for media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders will be held to increase the level of awareness. He was […]
LAHORE – First-ever video trial of criminal cases in Pakistan through video conference system (VCS) was held at the court of Senior Civil Judge Syed Zafar Ali Shah here on August 21. This system of trial has been introduced on experimental basis. During the trial of the case, the judge remained present in his courtroom, […]
ISLAMABAD – A woman legislator has sought a writ from the Supreme Court to enforce “fundamental rights of equality of the women for the full and mature participation of women in the national life”. A petition filed by Sherry Rahman, Member of National Assembly, in Islamabad on August 21, under Article 184(3) of the Constitution […]
ISLAMABAD – Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on August 20 said that the government will soon present a draft bill in the National Assembly to amend cross media laws, allowing newspaper owners to establish television and radio channels. He said that during his tenure as information minister screening of Indian movies would not […]
KARACHI – The APNS has strongly rejected the linkage of government advertisements with the implementation of Wage Board Award, stated a press spokesman of the Society. The Executive Committee of All Pakistan Newspapers Society, which met under the chairmanship of its President, Arif Nizami, considered the news report relating to the decisions of the Federal […]
MIRPURKHAS – Two parallel enquiries have been ordered against Rangers officials, who confined two journalists and damaged their cameras, and films near Mithi on the occasion of Tharparkar’s by-election. Two journalists – Muhammad Khalid of the Geo TV Network and Zubair Mujahid of the daily Jang were stopped by Rangers personnel for checking when they […]
ATHENS Greece – Pakistan’s teenage swimmer Rubab Raza made history here at the Aquatic Centre even as she barely managed to finish fifth in her qualifying heat on August 20. Rubab, 14, became the first Pakistani woman to take part in the Olympic swimming competition, finishing fifth with a time of 30.10 seconds in her […]
Despite protests from the opposition, the media and the legal profession, the ruling party has pushed through the National Assembly a defamation law that serves to curb freedom of the press. The aim behind the amendments to the Defamation Ordinance of October 2002 seems to be to unduly restrict the scope of the watchdog functions […]
ISLAMABAD – Following is the ful1 text of the Defamation Bill 2004 passed by the National Assembly as recommended by the Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights. A Bill to amend the defamation Ordinance, 2002 the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the […]
ISLAMABAD – Rejecting opposition’s objections, the ruling coalition on August 19 passed the controversial Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2004 in the National Assembly, Pakistan’s lower house of parliament. The bill is designed mainly to protect public figures from slander by enhanced punishment, including imprisonment of up to five years and/or a minimum fine of rupees one […]
ISLAMABAD – Rejecting opposition’s objections, the ruling coalition on August 19 passed a defamation bill designed mainly to protect public figures from slander by enhanced punishment and speedier trial. Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was present in the National Assembly to oversee the passage of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill that he had vowed to bring […]
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