• March 11, 2023
• General News

ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions court in the federal capital on Saturday disposed of a petition seeking the registration of a separate first information report (FIR) against police for manhandling journalists outside the Islamabad High Court on February 28 and ordered to record the statements of the media persons in the terror case already filed […]

• March 11, 2023
• Obituaries

KARACHI: Senior journalist and editor of Urdu language daily Express Tahir Najmi passed away here on Friday after a brief illness. He was 68. He had been ill for the past few weeks and was under treatment at a private hospital. He is survived by a widow, a son and a daughter. Tahir Najmi had […]

• March 11, 2023
• General News

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Governor Haji Ghulam Ali on Friday said he would hold talks with the chief election commissioner (CEC) next week to confirm the date for holding the elections of the provincial assembly. Talking to a delegation of journalists from the Nowshera Press Club, the governor said that the Supreme Court had ordered for conducting […]

• March 11, 2023
• General News

Islamabad police said on Thursday night that journalist Abid Mir, who was earlier reported to have gone “missing” in the capital, had returned home while his family refuted the claim. In a tweet, the capital police said that a “false impression” of Abid going missing had been created after the journalist lost contact with his […]

• March 11, 2023
• General News

KARACHI/LAHORE: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed TV channels to not broadcast content about the conduct of sitting high court and Supreme Court judges, Dawn.com reported on Thursday. In the prohibition order, the regulator referred to previous directives to “refrain from telecasting any content against state institutions”. The authority noted that despite […]

• March 11, 2023
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Friday banned airing of a show on a private TV channel for two weeks with immediate effect. The show was banned in the backdrop of a false news shared by a political analyst who also made baseless comments regarding the aid given by the Sindh government to […]

• March 10, 2023
• Access to Information

A petition filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday sought that Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi and his cabinet submit the details of their assets and liabilities before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). The petitioner further requested the court that to ensure transparency as well as the fundamental right to access […]

• March 10, 2023
• Broadcasting

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Thursday prohibited the broadcasting and rebroadcasting of content pertaining to the conduct of sitting high court and Supreme Court judges on electronic media with immediate effect. In the prohibition order, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, the regulator referred to previous directives wherein all licencees […]

• March 10, 2023
• Broadcasting

The Lahore High Court (LHC) Thursday suspended the ban imposed by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on the live telecast of speeches and press talks by Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). The verdict was announced by Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza, who also sent the matter to a full bench for […]

• March 10, 2023
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has delisted the suo motu case regarding journalist Arshad Sharif’s murder, scheduled for hearing on March 10 (today), due to unavailability of one of the bench members. Law officers, advocate generals and prosecutor generals were intimated that the instant suo moto case fixed in the supplementary cause list on March 10, […]

• March 10, 2023
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Abid Mir, a human rights activist and journalist from Balochistan, has gone missing from Islamabad, a leading newspaper reported. According to his family, he disappeared after going to an ATM on Wednesday evening. Mir, who is known for his social media activism and his work on human rights in Balochistan, was last seen at […]

• March 10, 2023
• General News

KARACHI: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) have strongly condemned the arrest of Bol News Co-Chairman Shoaib Shaikh. Secretary General of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Rana Azeem said that the journalist community strongly condemns the arrest of Bol News Co-Chairman Shoaib Shaikh. He said that the arrest […]

• March 9, 2023
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Aurat March, Wednesday, turned ugly when the marchers started chanting slogans against the government and the media and as a result violent clashes broke out between the police and the marchers while the marchers also launched an attack on media persons covering the event. The organizers of the Aurat March started their programme […]

• March 9, 2023
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Special Joint Investigation Team (SJIT) probing the murder of journalist Arshad Sharif on Wednesday filed its 15-day progress report with the Supreme Court of Pakistan in a sealed envelope. A five-member larger bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Umar Ata Bandial, on the last hearing, had […]