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 […]
KARACHI – Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari, Federal Minister for IT and Telecom said on June 7 that the ministry is trying its best to provide an apt environment to entrepreneurs for setting up their businesses in Pakistan. “The government is very much committed to extending whatever support it can to the Business Process Outsourcing industry […]
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 […]
KARACHI – Around 10 per cent of the innocent children who are sexually assaulted or harassed may commit suicide, deeming it the only way to get rid of the extremely demeaning and humiliating hang-over. Child abuse in any form can create a psychological crisis among those displaying suicidal tendencies. The situation is accentuated if the […]
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) expressed relief today at the commuting of the double death penalty imposed on Rehmat Shah Afridi, chief editor of the Peshawar dailies The Frontier Post and Maidan. Two judges of the Lahore High Court replaced them on June 3 with life imprisonment as Afridi continued to protest his innocence […]
ISLAMABAD – 12 more satellite TV channel licences will be awarded in the second phase of the process currently underway. This was disclosed by M. Noor Sagheer Khan, Executive Member, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) in an exclusive interview with the Pakistan Press International (PPI) here on June 5. He said there is a […]
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