ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has stopped private TV channel BOL News from broadcasting or rebroadcasting any content against the Geo Group, its management and their families immediately. In case of non-compliance, legal action would be initiated against M/s Labbaik (Pvt) Ltd, the parent company of BOL News. In its order, it […]
LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday sent Jang group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman to jail on judicial remand as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) did not seek his further custody in a 34-year-old case of 54-kanal land allegedly allotted to him by then Punjab chief minister Nawaz Sharif. At the outset of the remand hearing, […]
KARACHI/LAHORE/RAWALPINDI/PESHAWAR: The journalist community,media unions, civil society, political leaders and advocates of independent media continued their countrywide protest on the 44th day against the unjust arrest of Jang Geo Group editor-in-chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman outside the Jang-Geo Groups’ offices, terming it an unfortunate trend to coerce independent media into submission. In Karachi, speaking to the demonstration, […]
LAHORE/KARACHI: Senior journalists, civil society members, office-bearers of media unions and trade union bodies have demanded immediate release of Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. They warned that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government could not continue its dictatorial policies to suppress the freedom of expression and force economic murder of the media workers for long. They were speaking […]
LAHORE: Former federal minister Pervaiz Saleh has said that undue arrest of Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman has not only evoked anger and condemnation in Pakistan, but also throughout the world. In a press release, the former minister said the condemnation is not confined to the journalistic community, rather all sections of society including lawyers, civil […]
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will present Jang-Geo Media Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman (MSR) before an accountability court today (April 18) in a 34-year old private property case. The court had extended the editor-in-chief’s physical remand on April 7 till today. During the hearing on April 7, MSR’s counsel Amjad Pervez presented his arguments […]
KARACHI: The International Press Institute (IPI), in a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, has expressed extreme concern over the continued detention of Mir Shakilur Rehman, editor-in-chief of the Jang Media Group. The IPI is an umbrella group of editors, media executives and journalists working for press freedom. In his letter to the prime minister, […]
KARACHI: The Jang-Geo joint action committee on Thursday decided to ramp up struggle against the unlawful and unjust detention of group’s Editor In Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and to seek his release by holding hunger strike camps in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi. Presiding over a meeting at the union office, President of The News union Saeed Mohiuddin […]
LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday extended physical remand of Jang group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman for another 11 days in a 34-year-old land allotment case, while the Lahore High Court dismissed two identical petitions for his bail and quashment of the remand. Earlier, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) produced Mr Rehman before the trial […]
LAHORE: Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan told the Lahore High Court on Thursday that the National Accountability Bureau arrested Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman in a false property case for highlighting news against National Accountability Bureau (NAB) authorities. A two-member bench headed by Justice Sardar Naeem Ahmad was hearing two petitions challenging Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman’s arrest in a 34 […]
Jang Group’s publisher Mir Javedur Rehman passed away in Karachi on Tuesday, Geo TV reported. Mir Javed was fighting lung cancer and was undergoing treatment in Karachi, senior anchorperson Hamid Mir told Geo News. The deceased was the older son of Mir Khalilur Rehman, the founder of Jang Group and the brother of Mir Shakilur […]
LAHORE: PML-N President and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif and PML-Q President and former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain have demanded release of Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. In a message on Monday, Shahbaz prayed that God gift health to Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman’s elder son Mir Javed Rahman. He said Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman should be released on humanitarian […]
KARACHI: Roznama Jang and The News Publisher and Printer, Chairman Jang Group and Editor-in-Chief of Weekly Akhbar-e-Jahan Mir Javed Rahman, the eldest son of Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman, and brother of Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, is in critical condition. Mir Javed Rahman is being treated at a private hospital in Karachi. According to the hospital report, he is suffering […]
ISLAMABAD: Leading businessmen and office-holders of different chambers of commerce have condemned the arrest of Editor-in-Chief of Jang and Geo Group Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and demanded his immediate release. Former senior vice president of FPCCI, Secretary General United Business Group (SZ) and Chairman Baig Group Mirza Ikhtiar Baig said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman has […]
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