KOHAT- Bahar Studios are launching a local news channel after the district government formally approved the project for Kohat only, it is learnt. The channel would telecast only news and documentaries in local dialects. The chief executive of the TV channel, Abdul Rehman Dilawari said that preparations were underway to launch the channel as soon […]
ISLAMABAD- The Taliban said they would release British female journalist Yvonne Ridley, arrested a week ago for entering Afghanistan illegally. Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef told the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) that Ridley would be released “either today or tomorrow.” Taliban leader (Mullah Mohammad Omar) issued the order following the British government’s […]
PESHAWAR- The political authorities in the Khyber agency have arrested and charged two French journalists with illegal entry into the tribal area, an official said. The official said that Ravanello Oliever and Mar Cantetti Jerom of the TFI news channel were arrested and booked for entering the tribal area without government’s permission. Rifatullah, a Pakistani […]
PESHAWAR- The Taliban have found no evidence suggesting detained British journalist Yvonne Ridley was spying but have moved her to Kabul for further investigations, a Taliban intelligence source said on Friday. The source said that Ridley had been shifted from Jalalabad to Kabul but gave no indication when she might stand trial or be released. […]
ISLAMABAD- In its 18th meeting being last of the 7th Wage Board Award, the representatives of the employers and employees presented their comments on the reports of the economic experts. The meeting was chaired by chairman 7th Wage Board justice Raja Afrasayab Khan. It discussed the economic experts reports and the comments of the representatives […]
ISLAMABAD- A female British journalist arrested by the Taliban for illegally entering Afghanistan is to face trial ‘for violating the laws of our country’, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported Thursday. The Taliban’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mullah Abdul Rehman Zahed said the Taliban had also yet to determine whether Sunday Express reporter Yvonne Ridley ‘is […]
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 […]
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