KARACHI:- The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has expressed its disapproval over the press ordinances approved by the federal cabinet and the National Security Council (NSC) as these ordinances were contrary to the consensus draft of press laws agreed to by the Ministry of Information and the organisations of newspaper industry i.e., APNS and the […]
ISLAMABAD- The Ministry of Information & Media Development , commenting on statement of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), said that no change of any significance has been brought in the draft of the “Press, Newspapers, News Agencies, Books Registration Ordinance 2002” which was the result of painstaking efforts of the APNS and Council of […]
KARACHI- The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has expressed its disapproval of the press laws announced by the cabinet on August 31, 2002, as the laws in their present form are a breach of the APNS-government agreement. The APNS said that it was agreed that the package of laws, including freedom of information act, would […]
KARACHI- Iqbal Zuberi, a former chief editor and chief executive of the Urdu daily Mashriq daily, died here on Tuesday after protracted illness. He was 70. Iqbal Zuberi, who leaves widow and four married daughters, was born in Bhopal in 1932. He began his journalistic career in 1951 with the daily Tameer in Rawalpindi. His […]
ISLAMABAD- The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has asked the government to release texts of the ordinances relating to press council and press laws as approved by the cabinet on August 31. In a statement issued here Monday, Jamil Athar, acting President of the CPNE, Zahid Malik, Vice President and Mahmudul Aziz, Secretary General, […]
ISLAMABAD- Keeping in view the special requirements of software exporters, educational institutions, corporate customers and other small and medium IT users, the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will be introducing two new bandwidth packages. A PTCL spokesman said the packages would be introduced with significantly reduced rates to help the users to compete in the […]
ISLAMABAD- The federal cabinet approved on August 31 the setting up of proposed press council, publication of press and periodicals registration ordinance and defamation ordinance 2002. Giving details of the cabinet decisions at a news conference, Information Minister Nisar A. Memon said it was a long-awaited demand of the people that there must be certain […]
ISLAMABAD: The capital police manhandled and detained three photojournalists for taking snaps of the jailed PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari, when he was being brought to an accountability court in Rawalpindi on Thursday. The police also baton charged the Pakistan People’s Party workers, who had gathered outside the court. The action was taken when a […]
ISLAMABAD, Ag 29! Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed cable TV operators to immediately stop showing banned channels, vulgar films, pornographic materials and violence related programmes. According to Pemra officials, the operators have been warned earlier to take due care of the social, religious, cultural and traditional values of the Pakistani society. Although […]
KARACHI: The standing committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors at its meeting here on Thursday urged the federal government to promulgate without any further delay the agreed legislation on newspapers and periodicals since the absence of this legislation was creating tremendous difficulties for member publications even in their day-to-day work. The committee meeting […]
KARACHI (APP) -Two new laws pertaining to the press namely the Newspaper/ News Agency/ Book Registration Ordinance 2002 and the Press Council of Pakistan Ordinance 2002 will be presented before the next meeting of the federal cabinet. This was stated by Principal Information Officer (PIO), Mohammad Akram Shaheedi, while talking to senior journalists at a […]
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – A prominent journalist said Friday that police have registered a criminal case against him after he wrote a series of articles in his Internet weekly journal accusing, President Pervez Musharraf’s regime of corruption. Police in the nearby district of Rawalpindi confirmed a case had been registered and said it related to a […]
LAHORE-The commercial awards ceremony of Radio Pakistan Lahore Station was held at Alhamra on Thursday night. The awards were given in sales and commercial categories. The Categories included life time achievement awards as well as the better commercial voice, commercial traffic department and the leading commercial voice of the year. The life-time achievement awards were […]
ISLAMABAD : Minister for Science and Technology Dr Ata-ur-Rahman on Friday said that 25,000 school teachers will be trained under Information Technology training programme. He was addressing the two-day 3rd All Pakistan Members Meeting & Exhibition of Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) here. Dr Ata said that by December this year about 15,000 to 18,000 […]
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