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Issues of TV drama and films highlighted

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The second day of the Pakistan Literature Festival (PLF) on Saturday again roped in hundreds of literature and art lovers at the Alhamra Art Centre. One of the sessions, titled TV Pakistani Samaaj Ka Tarjumaan, featured veteran actor Munawar Saeed, playwrights Noorul Huda Shah, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Bee Gul and Amna Mufti, director Kashif Nisar […]


Journalists rendering best professional services deserve appreciation: Aasma Butt

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President of All Pakistan Chinese Overseas Youth Federation (APCOYF), Aasma Ismail Butt, on Sunday said the journalists who have rendered the best professional services in every era would be appreciated as they always raised the voice of truth with their pens as the fourth pillar of the state and the mirror of the society. She […]


Dawar Visits Miran Shah Press Club

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Chairman, National Democratic Movement (NDM) MNA Mohsin Dawar visited Press Club Miran Shah on Sunday and congratulated the newly president Safdar Dawar and president of Union of Journalists, Syed Ayub and their cabinets. Speaking on the occasion, MNA Mohsin Dawar said that press clubs play a crucial role in creating awareness in the society and […]


Umar Akmal loses his cool at journalist over question on fitness

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Quetta Gladiators batsman, Umar Akmal, lost his cool and snapped at a journalist, after being questioned about his Tiktok videos and fitness. While speaking to media on Sunday in Karachi, the hard-hitting batsman wasn’t amused with the line of questioning and requested the media to refrain from talking about his personal life. “Who has told […]


The media muzzle-puzzle

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General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s dernier military dictator, was interred in Karachi on Tuesday after he was recalled by his Creator last Sunday. He had not been well for some time and passed away in self-exile in Dubai. Pakistan has had several military dictators since the 1950s. Musharraf, however, was different in many ways. Apart from […]


Autobiography of KU teacher Shahida Kazi launched

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“It’s been 60 years since I took admission in the journalism department of the University of Karachi. The department itself was barely one-year-old then and I didn’t realise at the time that I was the first female enrolling in the course back then. Then there were other firsts, too, such as my bagging first position […]


Inside the Red Zone: Saving journalism

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Journalism in the digital age is a challenge that many established practitioners are struggling with. In Pakistan, this struggle manifests itself daily on newspapers pages and television screens as reporters, editors, anchors and media executives try their best to retain readers and viewers that only a few years ago constituted a captive audience. So where […]


Pakistan Information Center (PIC) to organize workshop on “Documentary Film Making”

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Pakistan Information Center PIC, Press Information Department (PID) Gilgit will organized a 2-day long training workshop on “Documentary Film Making” to enhance journalistic capacity of local journalists at Central Press Club Gilgit. The workshop will be held on 13th and 14th of this month. Digital media Experts have been hired as a resource persons they […]


Journalists demand control of Attock Press Club

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The journalistic community of occupied Press Club Attock have stressed upon the Care Taker Chief Minister Punjab Syed Mohsin Naqvi to get the building of Press Club Attock vacated from the clutches of district management Attock enabling them to continue their solidarity with their subjugated Kashmiri journalists  of Jammu & Kashmir till their liberation from […]


Services of veteran journalists, columnists, broadcasters acknowledged

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Senior working and retired journalists, photojournalists, columnists and broadcasters were given awards to acknowledge their contributions and services at a prestigious and memorable function of “First Media Awards 2022-23” here at Rawalpindi Arts Council. Veteran politician and artiste Senator Taj Haider, former Naib Tehsil Nazim Sajjad Khan, President of All Pakistan Overseas Youth Federation Asma […]


SMBR for action against illegal occupants in journalists’ colony

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LAHORE: Senior Member Board of Revenue Punjab Nabeel Javed chaired a meeting in the board committee room regarding the matters of the Punjab Journalist Housing Foundation. The Member (Colonies) Shahid Niaz, DGPR Rubina Afzal, Haseeb Zaidi and others were present in the meeting. A detailed briefing was given by the member (colonies) while the SMBR […]


Media role in country’s first digital census sought

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LAHORE: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) is all prepared to hold country’s first digital census. In this regard, the PBS conducted an interactive session with senior media personnel at Provincial Census Coordination Centre (P3C) here on Thursday. The main purpose was to brief media personnel about the scope, background and importance of Pakistan’s upcoming first […]


Media body concerned by challenges to journalists

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KARACHI: The Association of Electronic Media Editors and News Directors (AEMEND), in a meeting held in Lahore on Thursday, raised concerns over the hurdles and challenges faced by journalists and mediapersons across the country. The meeting, chaired by AEMEND President Azhar Abbas, was also attended by stakeholders from Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, and Islamabad. In the […]


Pakistan Telecommunica­tion Authority (PTA) barred from blocking websites without consultation

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ISLAMABAD: The government has barred the Pakistan Telecommunica­tion Authority (PTA) from blocking any website without consulting the Minis­try of Information Tech­nology and Tele­communi­cation. The decision was made in a ministerial committee meeting chaired by IT Minister Syed Aminul Haque. The committee was established by the prime minister on Feb 6 after PTA blocked Wikipedia, the […]