KARACHI- Three persons were arrested by the police for allegedly running TV cables without authorization in interior Sindh. Raids were conducted in Larkana and Nawabshah on a complaint of Royal Intellectual Property Rights Security Services (Pvt) Limited. Police seized several electronic items including five decoders, two splitter, one video CD player and about nine video […]
KARACHI- Senior journalist and elder brother of renowned film and TV artiste and producer Omer Sharif, Usman Yami died late on February 1st 2003. He was 58. He was laid to rest at Azizabad graveyard. Presently, Usman Yami was associated with Geo TV. Other than his relatives, Farooq Sattar, Khalid Bin Walid, Shahzad Raza, Liaquat […]
KARACHI- Senior producer Shahid Iqbal Pasha has been appointed as the Acting Programme Manager of Pakistan Television (PTV) Karachi Centre. Shahid Iqbal Pasha is associated with Pakistan Television Karachi Centre since the last many years. He also played an important role in international dubbing section. Source: The Nation Date:2/2/2003
KARACHI- Kazi Asad Abid, Secretary-General, All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS), has announced names of the winners of APNS awards for journalists and advertising agencies. The Secretary General, APNS has announced that the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, has very kindly consented to be the chief guest at the 16th APNS Awards ceremony […]
OCCUPIED SRINAGAR- A journalist in occupied Kashmir died on January 31, 2003 after unidentified gunmen burst into his office and shot him, police said. His death brought to at least seven the number of journalists who have been killed by gunmen in occupied Jammu and Kashmir since a uprising against Indian rule erupted in 1989. […]
WASHINGTON- Ejaz Haider, the news editor and a columnist of The Friday Times, was arrested by US officials for failing to register with the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS). He spent 12 hours in a lock-up and was released only after Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri spoke with senior officials here. Mr Haider is a […]
PATTOKI- A local World Cable, considered to be a sign of vulgarity, profanity and nudity, has been set ablaze. A local World Cable being run by Sheikh Abdul Waheed and Raza projecting various channels to the city dwellers was attacked by some masked miscreants on January 30th, 2003. They tortured the proprietors and set the […]
KARACHI- The state-owned telecom giant, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has asked the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications to let it retain the ban about which PTA, the telecom regulator had directed it to lift from January 1, 2003 following strong uproar from Internet service providers. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) had put a […]
ISLAMABAD- Chairman, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), Mian Muhammad Javed, said on January 28, 2003 the authority would only issue licences to Pakistani firms to set up private television and radio channels. The chairman said the authority is all set to issue licences to the private television channels in the second phase, especially for […]
LAHORE- Veteran Journalist and columnist Syed Aali Rizvi died of a protracted illness on January 29, 2003. Aali Rizvi, 72, started his career as a journalist with defunct daily Kohistan and remained associated with the profession for well over 40 years. He remained editor of defunct daily Mashriq. For the last some years, he was […]
HYDERABAD- Employees of daily Sindh, led by its editor Ghulam Rasool Sehto, observed a token hunger strike outside the local press club on January 28, 2003. They are protesting against what they describe the discriminatory attitude of the Sindh information department in respect of advertisements for the regional press, particularly daily Sindh. Talking to journalists, […]
SUKKUR- The heirs of a murdered journalist were compensated by the father of the accused in a well-attended Jirga on January 28, 2003 at Kandhkot in Jacobabad District. Journalist Shahid Soomro, father of five children, was gunned down outside his house in October last. His brother Aziz Soomro had nominated Wahid Ali, son of Sardar […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has urged TV viewers not to pressure their cable operators into showing those channels which have been banned by the government, says a press release. It says Pemra offices receive hundreds of calls daily demanding relaying of illegal channels which is against the national interest. “Due to […]
MINGORA- Unidentified assailants shot dead three people, including a writer whose work was viewed as critical of Osama Bin Laden and former Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The 40-year-old Afghan writer, Fazal Wahab, who was, reportedly, engaged in a hostile debate with some pro-Taliban Ulemas, was living as a refugee in Swat, North West Frontier Province […]
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