KARACHI:Jan.28:The Commonwealth PressUnion (CPU) in collaboration with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association has invited entries for the 2004 Commonwealth Photographic Awards.1st Prize 2000 sterlin with cash prizes. This is an open competition for all Commonwealth resident,,Entrants have been invited to interpret the theme as freely as they like.Photos will be judged on both technical quality and […]
ISLAMABAD: Jan 30:Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shaikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday said present government has successfully. projected the Kashmir issue and declared that government would never compromise e on this vital issue. Addressing a seminar on “IndoPak relations and Kashmir issue” organised by ‘The Nation-Nawa- e-Waqtl here he said, present govemment has seriously raised […]
KARACHI Jan .26:-Pakistan Television Newscaster Shahabuddin Shahab has protested on being neglected for the Twelfth PTV Award 2002 and has demanded of the Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad to take notice of is”disregard of merit.” In a statement issued here on Sunday he said he was associated with PTV, Karachi Centre for last 21 […]
KARACHI:Jan.26:When Seema Mustafa, an Indian journalist, challenged Qazi Hussein Ahmed, one of Pakistan’s staunchest Islamists, on television, telling him that his mind-set was harming future generations, she was not expecting the Geo effect. “It was amazing,” said Ms Mustafa, the New Delhi correspondent for the Indian newspaper The Asian Age, and one of hundreds of […]
Date: January 26-30, 2004 Location: Karachi Internews, an international organization, working for journalism development in the developing countries conducted the workshop. Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister on Information and Archives Salahuddin Haider was the chief guest at certificate awarding ceremony on Friday, January 31, 2004. He deplored that some reporters working for local dailies don’t […]
SHIKARPUR, Jan 26: The adviser to the prime minister on social welfare and women development, Nelofar Bakhtiar, has said a bill to eliminate Karo-kari will soon be presented before the federal cabinet after which legislation will be made against the custom in parliament. She was speaking at an open kutchehry in Lakhi Ghulam Shah here […]
NEW YORK: A US-based international human rights group on’Saturday demanded the immediate release of a Pakistani journalist arrested last month while working with two French journalist Human Rights Watch (HRW),in a”statement issued here urged the President Pervez Mushaeeaf to order the release of Khawar Mehdi Rizvi. Rizvi and two French journalists, Marc Epstein and Jean-Paul […]
KARACHI: Jan.25: The PFUJ,has called for the release of freelance journalist, Khawer Mehdi Rizvi, who continues to remain in custody in an undisclosed location, thouugh his French colleagues, Marc Epstein and Jean-Paul Guilloteau, who were put on trial for breaking the Foreigners Act 1964 by traveling to Quetta without special permission, have gone back to […]
LAHORE: Jan.25: Pakistan Telecommunication Company. Limited (PTCL) has reduced fixed circuit charges by 17 perÂcent to facilitate mobile phone ,e companies to bring down their,. Tariffs.TaWing to newsmen at the inaugural ceremony of a free Intemet. facility at University of Central Puiyab here on Saturday, Federal Information Technology and Telecommunications Minister, Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari […]
LAHORE: Jan.25: Pakistan Telecommunication Company. Limited (PTCL) has reduced fixed circuit charges by 17 perÂcent to facilitate mobile phone ,e companies to bring down their,. Tariffs.TaWing to newsmen at the inaugural ceremony of a free Intemet. facility at University of Central Puiyab here on Saturday, Federal Information Technology and Telecommunications Minister, Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari […]
KARACHI, Jan 23: Speakers at a seminar on Friday urged the government to revise the existing laws that affect the press and enforce new ones in consultation with working journalists.The seminar, which was titled “Press laws in Pakistan”, was organized by the Karachi Union of Journalists at the Karachi Press Club. The speakers also demanded […]
Sheikh Saadi Shirazi said that Luqman being a wise man of great reputation in ancient Arabia was once asked about the source of his learning wisdom. He replied, ‘I learned wisdom from the blind who does not put his foot forward without feeling the ground. There can never be a spoken or written word from […]
LAHORE: The Punjab government is learnt to have decided not to invite the Pakistan Television for coverage of its activities as a protest against the cold shoulder given by the PTV during last one week as no coverage has been given to Punjab in its various news bulletins, including Khabarnama. Official sources, while confirming the […]
KARACHI, Jan 26: About 236 women prisoners, with their 48 children, are lodged against a capacity of 105 prisoners at the women’s prison Karachi, Ms. Sheeba Shah, Superintendent Karachi Women Prison said. Giving away certificates to the participants at the concluding session of a two-day sensitization training on human rights, organized by the Lawyers for […]
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