KARACHI- Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has demanded early promulgation of Press and Publication Ordinance, Press Council Ordinance and Access to Information Ordinance. The demand was made through a resolution adopted at the CPNE meeting in Karachi. The meeting also reviewed in detail the relation between the government and the Press. CPNE President Mujibur […]
WASHINGTON- British-born militant Ahmed Saeed Omar Shaikh was indicted on two counts of hostage taking in the kidnapping and slaying of US reporter Daniel Pearl, according to documents released by the Justice Department on Thursday. The indictments were handed up by a federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey, and charged him with one count […]
ISLAMABAD- The federal government has directed the provincial home secretaries to stop the publications of all the banned militant organizations which continued to appear in the market despite freezing of their assets and accounts. Investigations revealed that a number of publications and websites were still being maintained by the militant organizations despite the government ban. […]
KARACHI- All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (APNEC) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and all their affiliated unions and units have rejected the proposed setting up of a Press Council and press regulatory laws the government has decided to introduce to “regulate” the press, through an ordinance. After a hurriedly-called conference of the office-bearers […]
KHAIRPUR- The district Nazim (Councillor), Khairpur, Ms Nafeesa Shah said that Sindhi journalists were playing an important role in the development of the province and creating awareness among the people. She said this while talking to the journalists of Khairpur at a dinner hosted by her in their honour. She said that there should be […]
LAHORE- A man appeared in the office of an Urdu daily on Thursday, claiming to have killed US journalist Daniel Peal. However, later talking to newsmen, he confessed that he did own the killing in a bid to save Ahmed Omar Sheikh, one of the prime suspects in Pearl’s murder case. The man identified himself […]
ISLAMABAD- Launching what its inventors have described with an unusual name of “Virtual University”, an institution for higher learning in the information technology, President General Pervez Musharraf has said the institution will provide a linkage between education and industry. Musharraf said this was imperative for the economic development and this connection had not been emphasised […]
ISLAMABAD- Federal Minister for Information and Media Development Nisar Memon has asked the Press to give priority to national interests while reporting things in newspapers and try to project the country’s image as a progressive, liberal and moderate Islamic state. The minister was talking to a delegation of Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) headed […]
ISLAMABAD- The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has termed the military regime’s banning the entry of journalists into the accountability court in Attock as sheer “perversion of justice”. The party urged upon the human rights bodies and lawyers to take notice of this “blatant violation of the civil and human rights of Senator Zardari” and force […]
KARACHI- Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, prime suspect in the Daniel Pearl case, told the court on Tuesday that if he is killed in a fake encounter at the behest of the US, America would suffer. He claimed that if he is extradited to that US, it would return him the same way as India had […]
KARACHI- Inspector General of Police Sindh, Syed Kamal Shah said on Tuesday that Daniel Pearl was over-intrusive. He was addressing the members of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) at its office. Assistant Inspector General (AIG), Asad Jehangir, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Investigation, Fayaz Leghari, DIG Traffic Saud Mirza, Anti Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) […]
STOCKHOLM- More than 3,000 Pakistanis want to become citizens in the northern European nation of Ladonia, the country’s state secretary said. Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist. Ladonia is a piece of land in southern Sweden only one square kilometre (half-mile) in size, and as a nation exists mainly on the Internet (http://www.aim.se/ladonia) and in the mind […]
KARACHI- Justice Shabbir Ahmad of Sindh High Court (SHC), in his capacity as the Administrator Judge of ATCs, allowed Khwaja Naveed Ahmad advocate to meet his clients Fahad Nasim and Syed Salman Saqib inside jail. The accused, who are involved in the abduction and subsequent murder of Wall Street Journal’s reporter Daniel Pearl, are in […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan has asked the US to allow a senior FBI agent to appear before the court in Karachi as a witness in the case of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, sources said. A formal request by Pakistan’s Foreign Office to the US State Department was made last week seeking the appearance of […]
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