PESHAWAR- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has resented the comments reportedly made by a senior official in Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban militia, accusing British journalist Yvonne Ridley of “ill intentions’ and calling her as an agent of “special forces. According to a Press release issued here US-based by CPJ, Taliban soldiers arrested Ridley, a reporter […]
PESHAWAR- A female British journalist arrested by the Taliban for entering Afghanistan illegally is being quizzed to assess whether she is a spy, a Taliban source said. The source said an investigation team from Kabul had arrived in Jalalabad to question reporter Yvonne Ridley. However, security sources said that no formal charges had yet been […]
PESHAWAR- The Taliban on relaxed the veil (burqa) system for women and has directed the women entering to Afghanistan to keep their faces uncover for identity, say reports reaching here from the war-torn country. The religious Taliban militia after the tightening of control over Afghanistan in September 1996 announced strict Islamic laws directing women to […]
PESHAWAR – The NWFP Home and Tribal Affairs Department relaxed its decision regarding imposition of a ban on the visit of foreign journalists to the tribal areas with allowing a limited number to cover Torkham from Mechani check post. The NWFP government in the light of ISPR Director General Maj. Gen. Rashid Qureshi and Federal […]
PESHAWAR- Secretary Information Anwar Mehmood and Information Secretary to President Maj. Gen. Rashid Qureshi said the government had no intention to put restrictions on the movements of foreign journalists rather it wanted to facilitate them in the coverage of the events in this part of the country. Briefing foreign journalists they said, “we restricted their […]
KARACHI- The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has strongly urged upon the federal government to promulgate the Publications and Press Registration Ordinance without further delay as there existed no press laws in the country, stated a press release of the APNS. Kazi Asad Abid, Secretary-General APNS, announcing the decisions taken at the Executive Committee meeting […]
ISLAMABAD- They flooded in with hopes of scoops from Afghanistan, got stuck behind closed borders in Pakistan and their numbers have reached such a critical mass that the dateline joke is of ‘Journalistan.’ Since the start of the current crisis surrounding Afghanistan, the Pakistan authorities have registered 450 newly arrived jounalists in the country, although […]
KARACHI- Nayyar Alvi, senior journalist and editor of Urdu newspaper Express, died of heart failure. He was 62. He was buried in COD graveyard in the afternoon. According to members of his family, Mr Alvi felt pain in his chest after dinner, he was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on […]
PESHAWAR- Pakistan: Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban militia said it was questioning a British female journalist, arrested for entering the country illegally and hinted that she could be tried for spying. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press quoted a Taliban official as saying on Sunday Express reporter Yvonne Ridley was being held in the eastern Afghan city of […]
KARACHI- Software with the capability of automatically translating English Web pages into Urdu is being developed. The first phase of the project has been completed, and a demonstration of the software will be presented. Tasfeer Ahmed, a Pakistani software engineer, has developed an automated English-to-Urdu translator which is available to users on the Internet. It […]
ISLAMABAD- The Taliban said they had arrested a British journalist who had entered the country illegally. The journalist was identified as Yvonne Ridley, a correspondent for London’s Sunday Express. According to a Taliban spokesman, Ridley was arrested near Jalalabad along with two guides. Source: Dawn Date:9/29/2001
KOHAT- The Inter Services Intelligence arrested a Japanese journalist who was trying to enter the tribal area of Kurram Agency bordering Afghanistan in violation of a ban imposed by the NWFP government on the movement of foreigners in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The ISI officials sent the Japanese, Mr. Saturo, to Peshawar after confirming […]
ISLAMABAD- Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) appointed Ashraf Nadeem as Executive Director of the council. This was announced by the Secretary General of the CPNE, Zahid Malik. Ashraf Nadeem who retired recently as Additional Secretary to the Government of Pakistan, will now run the secretariat of the CPNE. Secretary General of the Council said […]
CHANGA MANGA- District Government Kasur is launching its website for the benefit of general public. This was disclosed by District Nazim Rana Imtiaz Ahmad Khan. Spelling out the details of the site, the District Nazim told that it would contain information about all the departments of the district as well as District Assembly and police. […]
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