MULTAN (September 15 2003): Federal Minister for Telecommunications and Information Technology Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has said that Wireless Local Loop System (WLLS) exchanges would be established from the rural plane tracts near the river Indus to the mountainous territory in south Punjab next year. “No such areas would remain deprived of communications facility […]
KARACHI, Sept 13: The APNS executive committee will meet in Peshawar on Sept 18 under the chairmanship of Mr Arif Nizami, to focus on the problems faced by member publications based in the NWFP, an APNS spokesman said. Muhammad Aslam Kazi, the APNS secretary-general, has announced that in pursuance to the decision of the society, […]
KARACHI, Sept 13: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan has emphasised that stability of democratic institutions lay in national stability, progress and betterment of people. “A healthy press is also one of the pillars of democracy and its stability is as much essential like other co-factors,” he said while talking to different groups of newspaper […]
PESHAWAR, Sept 13: NWFP Assembly Speaker Bakht Jehan Khan on Friday assured local newsmen of his full cooperation during the coverage of the Assembly’s proceeding in future. Speaking to newsmen here at the Peshawar Press Club, where he came to clarify his position in connection with the Wednesday’s ugly incident, he denied that he had […]
PESHAWAR (September 13 2003): Chief Minister of NWFP Akram Khan Durrani said the provincial government has cordial relations with journalists’ community. Talking to a delegation of senior journalists at the Frontier House, the chief minister said that both the journalists and the government people belonged to same society and shared each other problems and joys. […]
LAHORE, September 13: After failing to find a single buyer for local telecommunication giant the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, government on the advise of donor agencies have decided to corporatise it on WAPDA’s pattern. Sources informed The Nation that the PTCL board in its recent meeting has taken a decision in principle to divide the […]
KARACHI, Sept 11: An anti-terrorism court withdrew on Thursday the contempt of court proceedings against the officials of a private TV channel after the judge accepted the unconditional apologies of all the contemners. Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the ATC-3 had initiated the contempt proceedings against the officials of the ARY Digital and others for […]
Date: September 11, 2003 Location: Karachi Pakistan press Foundation (PPF) at its Vicky Zeitlin Media Library organised a seminar for journalists The media’s role in promoting Quaid’s Values on September 11, to mark the death anniversary of the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The speakers’ consensus was that despite facing constrains, and impediments print media in […]
KARACHI, Sept 10: Malice must be proved as a fact in a suit for defamation independently of any inference arising from the allegedly libelous character of a publication, Justice Muhammad Moosa K. Laghari of the Sindh High Court observed on September 10 while dismissing a case against this newspaper. A suit was instituted by M/s […]
PESHAWAR: Allegedly, on the directives of the speaker NWFP Assembly, the entire security and other staff members of the Assembly Secretariat encircled the journalists covering the proceedings of the assembly on Wednesday. Sticks and iron bars carrying infuriated secretariat staff members damaged all the motorcycles of the journalists’ parked in front of the press gallery. […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The government has initiated a consultative process by involving the stakeholders for minor adjustments in the recently announced telecom deregulation policy, said the information technology minister , Awais Leghari, here on September 10. “After removal of flaws pointed out by different quarters, the draft policy would be presented to the cabinet for […]
Karachi, ministry of Information Technology and Telecom will formulate mobile cellular policy a move it says is essential for the growth of the sector sources in the ministry say. They said the policy was essential in the current deregulated scenario and hops that the ministry would announced it in a few months. The mobile sector […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: ‘Kashmir Channel’ and ‘PTV Home Channel’ will start transmissions in which special programmes concerning Kashmiri women and children will be aired , said the PTV managing director, Akhtar Waqar Azeem, while speaking at a meeting with the private production producers held at the PTV headquarters. At present, the private productions were being […]
KARACHI, September 4:The Secretary General, Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), Dr Jabbar Khattak, expressing his deep concern over the ruthless murder of the Chief Reporter of Daily ‘Asas’, Mohammad Akbar condemned the ongoing killing spree in the city. He also appealed to the government to take strong notice of the incident, apprehend the real […]
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