KARACHI – A large number of newspaper editors in the country have sent messages of felicitations to Majid Nizami, the Editor in Chief of the Nawa-i-Waqt, on having received the award as the best newspaper of Pakistan in the year 2004 from the Pakistan Advertising Association. It may be mentioned here that the award committee […]
KARACHI – The veteran journalist and former news editor of Business Recorder, Zamir Niazi, has been hospitalized after his condition deteriorated on Tuesday. The author of highly acclaimed books Press in Chains, Press Under Siege and Web of Censorship has been suffering from respiratory disorder. Niazi has been admitted to Patel Hospital in Gulshan-e-Iqbal where […]
PESHAWAR – Local police on June 8 arrested some students, including girls, and a local journalist from a cyber cafe on the Peshawar University campus. The campus police arrested the students and the newsman, Mujeeb Khan, when they were busy in their routine work. Later, they were released on the intervention of senior police officers. […]
LAHORE – An Inter-Provincial Conference of Information Technology Ministers of all the four provinces is being held here on June 9. Punjab IT Minister Abdul Aleem Khan will preside over the conference aims at devising a joint strategy for expansion of the IT sector in the country. According to Mr. Aleem Khan, through the conference, […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Advertising Association (PAA) on June 7 announced the 18th PAA Excellence Awards-2004, for its member advertising agencies, for the period from January to December 2001-02. Synergy Advertising got the top position with seven awards, followed by Interflow Communication with four, and Paragon Advertising with three awards. Two special awards were also […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Advertising Association has announced the Best Mass Media Excellence Awards-2004. Daily Nawa-i-Waqt won the award in the newspaper category for its best performance during the year 2004. PAA Chairman S.H. Hashmi, Award Committee Chairman Mahmood Paarekh and Vice Chairman Jamshed Qureshi announced the awards during a Press briefing held here at […]
KARACHI – The Geo television channel has won electronic media award of the 18th PAA Excellence Awards-2004. The award distribution ceremony would be held in the last week of this month. This was announced by Mahmood Parekh, Chairman, 18th PAA Excellence Award-2004, at a press conference at a local hotel on June 8. He said […]
KARACHI – The National Committee for Maternal Health and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is celebrating the International Day of the Midwife by holding a seminar on Midwifery and SafeMotherhood. Dr. Saeeda Malik, Minister for Women Development, Social Welfare and Special Education, Government of Sindh will be the chief guest. The National Committee for Maternal […]
PESHAWAR – The NWFP government has abolished the Peshawar Software Technology Park and Information Technology cell projects. Officials say that the software business is not viable under current circumstances in the province. After abolishing the software park and the IT cell, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government is planning to set up a centre of excellence for […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Advertising Association (PAA) on June 7 announced the 18th PAA Excellence Awards-2004, for its member advertising agencies, for the period from January to December 2001-02. Synergy Advertising got the top position with seven awards, followed by Interflow Communication with four, and Paragon Advertising with three awards. Two special awards were also […]
LAHORE – The Lahore High Court has restored the intra-court appeal of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) that challenged the sixth wage award for journalists and other newspaper employees. The appeal was dismissed on April 17 this year for non-prosecution. It was revived after an application in the high court filed by advocate Abdul […]
GUJRANWALA – A minor girl was found slaughtered at her house in People’s Colony on June 5. According to reports, the girl who was getting education at a local school was alone at her house, as her parents had gone to market. Unidentified men peaked into the house and allegedly slaughtered the girl after criminally […]
SUKKUR – Two women were killed on the preÂtext of karo-kari in separate incidents in the Ghotki district on June 5 night. Sultana, wife of Swtan Sapio, was shot dead allegedly by her brother and his accomplices in the Shadi Wala village, near Ubauro. In the Bachal Shah village, Yaroo Lund police station jurisdiction, Abdul […]
QUETTA – Khawar Mehdi Rizvi, a freelance Pakistani journalist, went on trial on June 8 in an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in the southwestern city of Quetta on charges of sedition, conspiracy, and impersonation, according to the journalist. The charges against him carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Rizvi told CPJ that several witnesses for […]
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