KARACHI- An American website ogrish.com has put online again the videotape which contains scenes of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl’s slaying, despite the fact that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Pearl family do not want to show the videotape. But in Pakistan the authorities are not in a mood to provide […]
LAHORE- The proposed Defamation Ordinance, 2002, provides full rights to journalists if the matter commented on is fair and in the public interest and published in good faith. It further says that it will not infringe upon the rights of journalists if the matter published or produced is based on truth and reflects public good. […]
QUETTA- At an emergency meeting of Balochistan Newspapers Editors Council a demand was made for immediate release of a senior journalist Abdul Rasheed Butt senior news editor, Urdu dailies Lashkar and Ba Khabar. Criticizing the arrest if journalists by the police, the council claimed that Rasheed Butt’s detention by the police is an attack on […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (Apnec) have urged President Pervez Musharraf to take notice of the proposed new anti-journalists defamation law which, if introduced, is bound to estrange the government’s relations with working journalists. In a joint telegram to the president, the leaders of the two […]
HYDERABAD- The Anti-terrorism Court (ATC), Hyderabad, on Saturday examined Rao Aslam, the first investigating officer of the Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping-cum-murder case. During his cross-examination, which continued till the court adjourned the hearing till June 5, Rao Aslam deposed that ‘for security reasons’ he avoided making any entry at the Rawalpindi police station or calling police […]
KARACHI- The prosecution in the Daniel Pearl murder case on Thursday frustrated attempts of the four accused to obtain video of the gruesome incident, when it secured an order from a division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) to suspend the operation of the order of the trial court until June 4. The anti-terrorism […]
ISLAMABAD- The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has condemned the government’s intentions to introduce new defamation laws. A joint telegram in this regard was sent today to the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Khalid Ranjha by the President of the CPNE Mujibur Rehman Shami and Secretary-General Zahid Malik as well. The telegram expressed […]
ISLAMABAD- Information Minister Nisar A Memon said on Thursday that Pakistan Television (PTV) and Radio Pakistan will be granted institutionalised freedom through a clearly laid out policy to bolster the quality of their news. “The freedom of the two channels will be permanent so that nobody may attempt to reverse it in future – the […]
ISLAMABAD- Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), Mian Muhammad Jawed said that the regulatory authority would only issue licenses to Pakistani firms to set up private television and radio channels. The chairman said that the regulatory authority is all set to issue licenses to the private television channels, radio transmission stations and cable networks, […]
ISLAMABAD- The law ministry has approved a draft law on Accreditation Council for Education in IT after constant persuasion by science and technology minister Dr Attaur Rehman. “Now the draft ordinance, intended to streamline and standardize the mushroom growth of different IT institutes in the country, is ready to be submitted before the Cabinet for […]
ISLAMABAD- The information technology and telecom division will set up a university of IT and management sciences at Quetta. According to a press release issued here on Thursday, Rs39 million has been allocated by the ministry for the first phase of the project. The president during his visit to Quetta in March 2001 had announced […]
HYDERABAD- The defence counsel, Rai Bashir Ahmed, has filed a criminal miscellaneous application before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge, Syed Ali Ashraf Shah, on Wednesday, raising objections on the grant of stay, withholding the release of video cassette to defence lawyers. The stay was granted for 72 hours by the court on Tuesday on an […]
HYDERABAD- The judge of Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC), Syed Ali Ashraf Shah, here on Tuesday ordered the release of a video cassette showing the slaughter of Daniel Pearl on an application filed by the defence counsel. But soon after passing of the order, the court stayed operation of the same order for 72 hours on another […]
ISLAMABAD- The Musharraf government has finalized new defamation laws for working journalists, editors and publishers carrying penalties ranging form fine of Rs 1 million defined as “special damage” and apology or both, reveals a Law Ministry summary submitted to the federal cabinet for approval. Under the new press laws, the journalists will have no right […]
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