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IFJ calls to ensure press freedom

Karachi , by an agency, harassing and threatening him of dire consequences ,has demanded of the Chief Executive and President Musharraf and Federal Minister for Inforamtion Nisar Memon to ensure freedom of journalism in the country. In an e-mail message fo them IFG expressed on Friday their grave concern on the unfortunate incident of abduction […]


Government lifts ban on eveninger

Karachi: The Sindh government has lifted restriction on daily Mashriq eveninger Special Karachi and the newspaper is preparing to resume publication from Friday, a statement of the Mashriq Management Private Ltd. Said here on Thursday. It said the removal of restriction followed a meeting of office bearers of APNS and CPNE on Saturday last with […]


EC formulating code of conduct for electronic media

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has started formulating a Code of Conduct for the state-controlled electronic media under which every political party would be given share in time to reach to the public. EC sources told Dawn that the details of the code would be unveiled after the lifting of ban on political activities. […]


High density communication chip designed

ISLAMABAD : A team of Pakistani engineers have designed a high density chip for multimedia communication over Internet protocol which is seen as a breakthrough in telecommunications field. The team working with Communications Enabling Technologies (CET) R&D facility of expatriate Pakistani owned Avaz Networks Inc USA is focusing on next generation telecommunication solutions over Internet […]


Hearing of Omar case on Aug 13

KARACHI, July 31: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Wednesday fixed state’s anti-terrorism appeal for Aug 13, seeking death penalty for the three accomplices of Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh in Daniel Pearl case. When the matter came up before the bench, comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Musheer Alam, the court […]


PTA, PTCL accused of harassing SAMW

KARACHI : The South Asian Media Wise has denied allegations of illegal voiceover Internet protocol termination. In a press release issued on Wednesday, SAMW said a team of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the Pakistan Telecommunication Company officials was handed over access to the servers. The team members looked at the configuration and the SAMW […]


New press law in a month, LHC told

LAHORE : The Press and Publications Ordinance of 1963 is the existing law that regulates the press but a new law is on the anvil and is likely to be promulgated within a month, Deputy Attorney-General Khwaja Saeeduz Zafar submitted in the Lahore High Court on Tuesday. Assisting the court in adjudication of two cross […]


Beating of journalists, teachers condemned

LAHORE: The Pakistan Federal Union of journalists has condemned police action against journal­ists at Islamabad and teachers at Lahore and other places of the Punjab. In a statement here on Tuesday, PFUJ president I.H. Raashed said that the newsmen who included photo journal­ists had been mercilessly beaten up and their cameras snatched by police which […]


Paknet launches high-speed wireless Internet service

KARACHI: Paknet, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and subsidiary of PTCL, has launched an­other innovative product and new service in the field of networking called ‘High-speed Broadband Wireless Internet’. The service has been made available from Tuesday as the company has initially introduced the technology in Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore. Wireless Internet Service is […]


SAMW Online office raided

KARACHI: The vigilance team of FWL and Telecommunication Authority (FTA) on Tuesday raided the office of an internet service provider, SAMW Online, and seized latest equipment allegedly used for voice mail facility for by­passing the PTCL gateway exchange, thus causing huge loss to the national exchequer. The PTCL and PTA found that during last 10 […]


Police open fire on photojournalists

ISLAMABAD- The police opened fire on press photographers in an attempt to stop them from taking snaps of a violent encounter between the law enforcement agencies and the villagers of Pind Sangrial and Sri Saral on the site of Sector D-12 near Golra. The journalists, after having been stopped at a police- picket some three […]


Journalist Seham Mirza passes away

KARACI-H: The founder of monthly magazines Dosheeza and Sachi Kahanian and senior journalist, Seham died here on Monday night. He had been suffering from cancer for the last six months. He leaves his widow and three daughters. Ik lfirza had also remained associated with monthly magazines Show Business, Bachchon Ka Risala, Sports Magazine, Fanoos and […]


Government confirms DNA tests show body is Pearl’s

KARACHI: Authorities in Karachi said on Saturday DNA tests carried out locally showed that a decapitated body found in Karachi in May was that of mur­dered Wall Street Journal re~ Daniel Pearl. Interior Minister Moin uddin Haider told reporters here. that separate DNA tests carried out by the United States and provided to Pakistan had […]


ISPs directed to help govt track e-mails of suspects

ISLAMABAD: The government is working on a security project to eavesdrop on computer communications by suspected criminals and allow its use for prosecution in court of law. Sources said the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country are coordinating with the law enforcement agencies for tracking internet communications. Major ISPs were directed to install technology […]