SUKKUR: Members of the standing committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) on Friday visited the Sukkur Press Club, where they lit candles in front of a big portrait of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed, kept on a platform of the club. On arrival at the club, they were warmly welcomed and given a round […]
SUKKUR: A meeting of the CPNE standing committee was held at a local hotel on Thursday for holding a condolence reference for slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto. The two-hour-long reference was addressed by more than 30 members of the CPNE, while its president Arif Nizami chaired the meeting. A resolution was passed by the committee […]
Despite President Pervez Musharraf’s reassuring statements, Pakistan’s media are not free to provide proper coverage of the legislative elections scheduled for 18 February because of a climate of censorship that is sustained by the permanent threat of fines, closures of news media and arrests of journalists, Reporters Without Borders said today. The government has introduced […]
ISLAMABAD: Opposition leader in the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani on Wednesday demanded that the two ordinances namely the Press, Newspapers, News Agencies and Books Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 2007 and the Pemra (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 2007 be repealed immediately. “If these ordinances are not repealed, the combined opposition in the Senate will move resolutions of disapproval […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has demanded repeal of the two ordinances namely the Press, Newspapers, News Agencies and Books Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 2007 and Pemra (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 2007 issued on November 3, 2007. This was stated by a delegation of PFUJ led by Huma Ali and accompanied by Mazhar Abbas, C […]
KARCHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) on Tuesday expressed concern over prevailing situation of media freedom in Pakistan. An informal meeting of the Karachi-based CPNE members held here with its president Arif Nizami in the chair. The meeting reviewed different administrative matters of the CPNE and discussed in details the prevailing situation regarding […]
KARACHI, Dec 15: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has concluded that “engagement with the ministry of information under prevailing circumstances is a futile exercise as the government is consistently curbing the expression of press freedom through arbitrary actions”. The executive committee of the APNS, which met here on Saturday under the chairmanship of Hameed […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 10 – Nearly all private television channels blacked out last month by President Pervez Musharraf’s emergency decree are back on the air. But the country’s once-thriving television news media remain largely muzzled by sweeping new restrictions that journalists and Western diplomats say stifle criticism of the government. A giant television screen in […]
ISLAMABAD: Nearly all private television channels blacked out last month by President Pervez Musharraf’s emergency decree are back on the air. But Pakistan’s once thriving television news media remain largely muzzled by a sweeping new “code of conduct” that journalists and Western diplomats say stifles criticism of the government. After the blackout cost leading channels […]
LAHORE – A delegation of newspapers editors headed by President Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors and Editor daily The Nation Arif Nizami visited the protest camp set up by the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) at Lahore Press Club to express solidarity with the journalists against government curbs on media. The delegation comprised former President […]
LAHORE: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors has expressed solidarity with the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) and vowed to fight for the freedom of press. Editors of various newspapers accompanied by journalists visited the Lahore Press Club on Thursday and expressed their resolve to fight for the freedom and independence of press and media. […]
LAHORE – A delegation of newspapers editors headed by President Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors and Editor daily The Nation Arif Nizami visited the protest camp set up by the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) at Lahore Press Club to express solidarity with the journalists against government curbs on media. The delegation comprised former President […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: The government will revoke some clauses of the ordinance promulgated by President Gen Pervez Musharraf hours after the imposition of emergency to restrict freedom of the print media and withdraw cases registered against journalists. The assurance was given by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Nisar Memon to representatives of the Pakistan Federal […]
KARACHI, Nov 23 (IPS) – From being the liberal President under whom Pakistan’s independent electronic media was born and flourished, Pervez Musharraf is now seen as the military general who imposed emergency rule on Nov 3 and suspended the Constitution and the independent judiciary. Musharraf also blocked all independent television channels on the cable network. […]
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