KARACHI, April 6: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited has proposed to invest Rs l.250 billion in its subsidiaries Pak Telecom Mobile Limited, Paknet Limited, Telephone industries of Pakistan Limited and ICO Pakistan Limited. The PTCL has proposed to invest one billion rupees in Pak Telecom Mobile Limited, Rs 50 million in Paknet Limited, Rs l00 million […]
KARACHI: The APNS, at its extraordinary meeting held at Karachi Mariott on March 31, ’99, presided by Hameed Haroon, the chief executive of Dawn Group of Newspapers, adopted a resolution for a reserved seat for woman publisher. This was indeed a historic step and a most encouraging move taken by APNS members. The newly-elected Executive […]
QUETTA, (PPI): A division bench of the Balochistan High Court on Tuesday issued bailable warrant of arrest Editor-in-Chief of Daily Jang Mir Shakeel-ur-Rahman. The bench, comprising Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Mr. justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmad, issued the warrants of arrest while hearing the contempt of court case against Jang for publishing objectionable statement […]
KARACHI: Journalists took out a protest rally from Karachi Press Club to Governor’s House on Monday to condemn the harassment of journalists by police and an MPA belonging to the ruling party. They allegedly chanted slogans against an MPA of Rahoki on whose ‘instance’, cases were allegedly registered against the local correspondents of two Sindhi […]
LAHORE: Supporting the stance taken by the Khyber Union of journalists on Rehmat Shah Afridi’s arrest in a narcotics case, the Punjab Union of journalists adopted a resolution on Monday condemning the arrest. With Rooman Ehsan, its president, in the chair, the meeting termed the arrest as part of government efforts to strangulate the voice […]
KARACHI, (APP): Local journalists held a demonstration from Karachi Press Club (KPC) to Sindh Governor’s House on Monday to protest the arrest of two journalists in Golarchi, district Badin. Representatives of Karachi Union of Journalists (both groups), members of KPC and Sindh Journalists Action Committee attended the rally. They raised slogans against the MPA from […]
PESHAWAR: A protest demonstration was held by journalists and hawkers here against the arrest of Chief Editor of The Frontier Post and Maidan, Rehmat Shah Afridi. . The protest demonstration began from the Peshawar Press Club (PPC) and culminated in front of the Governor House. The participants of the demo also staged a sit-in. Later, […]
KARACHI: Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, President of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), has expressed concern over the arrest of Rehmat Shah Afridi, Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of ‘Frontier Post’ and ‘Maidan’, on the charge of possessing drugs. In a press release, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman said that the arrest of a newspaper owner on such a serious charge was […]
LAHORE, April 2: The owner of The Frontier Post, Rehmat Shah Afridi, was arrested here early on Friday by the army-run Anti Narcotics Force on the charge of possessing 20kgs of charas and three guns. This was stated by the ANF Regional Director Brig Riazullah Khan Chib at a news conference at his office who […]
KARACHI: The Chief Executive of Jang Group of Publications, Mir Shakeel-ur-Rahman and the Deputy Chief Executive, Daily Business Recorder Arshad Zuberi were elected President and Secretary .General of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) in Karachi on Wednesday. The General Council of the Society met under the presidentship of the Chief Executive Dawn Group Hamid Haroon […]
ISLAMABAD, March 27: Pakistan Television is likely to shift very soon from AsiaSat-1 to more powerful satellite recently launched Asiasat-3S and will enjoy higher power and wider service area. Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat), Hong Kong recently announced that AsiaSat-3S has successfully been launched on March 21, 1999 and will soon replace AsiaSat-l. The new […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited would generate additional revenue of Rs 500 million per year through Prepaid Card Service (PCS), being introduced on March 25 throughout the country. This was stated by PTCL Chairman Naseem S. Mirza while addressing a joint news conference with Mumtaz Syed, Chief Executive of “World Call Limited” here on […]
ISLAMABAD, MARCH 24: The photographer of a local English language daily, Ishaq Chaudhry, who was picked up by an intelligence agency, was released after 24 hours of interrogation by a joint investigating team. Mr. Chaudhry was taken into custody by plain-clothes men from his room at a local hostel late on Sunday night. His family […]
WASHINGTON (AFP): At least 24 journalists were killed for doing their jobs in 1998 while 118 were in jail, the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Thursday. In its annual report “Attacks on the Press in 1998,” the CPJ said Colombia, where 43 journalists were murdered in the past decade, remained the most deadly […]
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