Islamabad- Minister for labour, manpower and overseas Pakistani’s Omar Asghar Khan, confirmed that the wage board award for the newspaper employees has been notified. “The wage board award has been notified,” he said replying to a question at a press conference. He said the government was always ready to hold talks on its implementation with […]
Karachi- Anthrax has surfaced in an Urdu daily with the laboratory which examined the contents of the envelope received by the paper confirming that they were anthrax spores. According to Jang, a reporter received a contaminated envelope about a week ago supposed to contain a press release. Instead, it contained white powder, which was immediately […]
LAHORE- While demanding of the government to formally notify the 7th Wage Board Award, hundreds of the journalists took to the streets, urging the newspapers owners to implement the Award announced by the Wage Board Chairman, former Justice Raja Afrasiab Khan. The journalists’ leadership has warned the government that their protest campaign will continue till […]
WASHINGTON- Bowing to official pressure, the Cable News Network (CNN) chairman has ordered his staff to balance images of civilian devastation in Afghan cities with reminders that the Taliban harbors murderous terrorists, saying it “seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan.” In a memo to his international correspondents, Walter […]
NEW DELHI- Pakistan, responding to criticism from an international journalist rights group, said that Indian reporters hoping to cover the US attack crisis had been denied travel visas for their own safety. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a letter to President Pervez Musharraf this Week that the restrictive policy” had seriously impeded […]
KARACHI- All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (APNEC), Karachi and Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) have decided to observe solidarity day on November 7. In a press statement, a joint meeting of APNEC and Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) was held at Karachi Press Club with All Pakistan Newspapers-Employees Confederation (APNEC) Chairman. Qamar Rizvi in chair, […]
KARACHI- Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are still awaiting announcement of co-location policy by the Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Ltd (PTCL) despite the fact that it was to be made public on August 28. “We are requesting the PTCL to follow the directives of Federal Minister for Science and Technology Dr Atta-ur-Rehman who had given August 28 […]
KARACHI- The All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (APNEC) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have, in a rejoinder to All Pakistan Newspapers Society, appealed to President Pervez Musharraf to take cognizance of the “inaccurate and misleading” representation made by the APNS with a view to pressuring the government to do its bidding. In a […]
LAHORE- Federal Labour, Manpower and Local Government Minister Omar Asghar Khan said that the government was keen on upholding the cause of journalists and was ready to discuss any issue with the owners of newspapers on wage award. Commenting on an All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) appeal to reverse the Seventh Newspapers Employees Wage Award, […]
KARACHI- Representatives of employees of the newspaper industry have urged the government not to be influenced by representatives of the All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS), a body of newspaper owners. In a statement, the chairman and secretary general of All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (APNEC) Abdul Hameed Chhapra and president Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists […]
PARIS- A French reporter arrested by the Taliban may be put on trial in the next few days, his employer said. Alain Genestar, managing director of weekly magazine Paris Match, said he understood that detained journalist Michel Peyrard would probably face a Shari at court in Jalalabad. Paris Match executives recently returned from Pakistan where […]
KARACHI- An emergent meeting of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), which comprises the leading newspaper publishing houses of the country, has appealed to the President of Pakistan to reverse a “disastrous pay award” announced by the chairman of the 7th Newspapers’ employees Wage Board and to repeal the Newspapers’ Employees Conditions of Service Act, […]
LAHORE- Speakers at a workshop have stressed the need of setting up of a training institute for the grooming and training of journalists, so that they could perform their duties in professional manner. They were speaking at a workshop on Editing Sills Development” jointly organised by the Lahore Press Club and the British Council, Lahore. […]
ISLAMABAD— The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has expressed its deep concern over the inordinate delay in promulgation of the Press & Publications Ordinance, which is causing numerous administrative and legal problems for the Press. The Standing Committee of the CPNE met under the chairmanship of the President of the Council, Mr. Mujibur Rahman […]
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