Emergency hurts free press,freedom of expression, say media bodies KARACHI: A joint meeting of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE), the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) was held here to consider the present state of press freedom in the country. The […]
The World TV Day was observed throughout the world on November 21 as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1996. Ironically, however, in Pakistan the most important means of information – that is, television – is braving against all odds and is facing oppression at the hands of the government. Since the imposition […]
Newspaper editors’ national body Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has said free media and free and fair elections are impossible under the emergency rule and demanded immediate end to emergency and ban on Geo and ARY news channels. CPNE made these demands by passing unanimous resolutions in a meeting in Lahore, jointly presided over […]
(New York, November 20, 2007) – The Dubai government should allow Geo Television and ARY Digital, which broadcast from Dubai and function as Pakistan’s most independent and respected television stations, to resume operations immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 17, the Dubai authorities summarily gave Geo Television and ARY Digital two hours to […]
KARACHI – Various units of the Karachi Union of Journalists and its affiliates held protest meetings on Monday condemning imposition of emergency in the country and curbs on the media and harassment of journalists. In their meetings they demanded immediate lifting of the draconian law and curbs on the media. These meetings were organized in […]
In a few short hours, the country was dragged into the dark ages of the 1980s. The PTV khabarnama is back and so is rumour, misinformation, denial and all their attendant evils. On Friday, when Benazir Bhutto was under detention and violence was erupting on the streets from Rawalpindi to Karachi, the lead story of […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists Friday observed ‘black day’ throughout the country on the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) against the imposition of emergency in the country, ban on private TV channels and new curbs imposed on media. Journalists of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad observed black day on Friday. They (journalists) boycotted […]
LAHORE, June 3: Two TV channels went off air in different parts of the country on Sunday night. The switch-off in case of Geo TV, according to its website, was almost countrywide while Aaj TV blackout was in Lahore and Islamabad. “The government has blocked the transmission of the Geo News TV channel across the […]
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern over the deteriorating media environment in Pakistan, including business retaliation and outright attacks on media companies. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the media watchdog group noted that “Pakistan’s largest independent English-language media group, the Dawn Group of Newspapers, distributed a letter on Friday from […]
Handlers’, ‘coordinators’ and ‘butterers’ appointed ISLAMABAD, July 26 2006: In a major PR exercise, the government of Shaukat Aziz has prepared a list of 33 columnists, writers and reporters in the English and Urdu print media of Pakistan and assigned its top “spin doctors” to neutralise the “negativism” of these writers by making them “soft […]
Date: July 19-21, 2005 Location: Vehari Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in coordination with FES organised a Journalism Training Workshop at Vehari, Punjab for local journalists and women from 19-21 July 2005. Vehari, with a population of about one lacs people, is an important market town deep inside Multan Division’s cotton growing area. Located at a […]
LAHORE, June 24 2005: The President of Indian Newspaper Society and Chief Executive Officer of Zee News, Pardeep Guha has said that Indian media is fully backing the peace process, and playing its due role in forming public opinion. Speaking at a luncheon hosted in the honour of visiting INS delegation (in Pakistan for their […]
KARACHI, February 01,2005: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has condemned the Friday night attack on the offices of Jang and Geo Television, terming it an assault on freedom of the press. APNS general secretary Muhammad Aslam Kazi, in a statement issued here on Monday, expressed concern over what he called the revived phenomenon of […]
KARACHI,January 30,2005: An armed group attacked the offices of Jang group of newspapers at I. I. Chundrigar Road late January 28 night, ransacked its ground floor, and damaged at least 13 cars parked outside the office, police and witnesses said. They said that a group of about 30 youth damaged the cars parked outside the […]
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