• September 3, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

ISLAMABAD: The Independent Media Corporation, Independent Newspapers Corporation and News Publications through their counsel Khalid Jawed Khan advocate served legal notice on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for leveling false, defamatory and misleading allegations against the media group and its owner Mir Shakil ur Rehman. Following is the text of the legal notice. This […]

• August 14, 2014
• Print Media

KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) Wednesday paid tributes to Majid Nizami, publisher/chief editor, Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications, the Executive Committee members offered Fateha and expressed their profound grief over the sad demise of the veteran colleague. In a press release APNS Secretary General Sarmad Ali stated that the Executive Committee of APNS held […]

• July 27, 2014
• General News

KARACHI: APNS President Hameed Haroon and Secretary General Sarmad Ali have expressed profound grief over the sad demise of their veteran colleague, Mr. Majid Nizami (former president APNS & CPNE) and Publisher / Chief Editor of Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications. In a statement issued on behalf of the office bearers and members of the APNS, […]

• July 4, 2014
• Print Media

KARACHI: A joint meeting between the All Pakistan Akhbar Farosh Federation and APNS was held here on Wednesday. According to a press release, the meeting was chaired by APNS president Hameed Haroon. The APNS was represented by Sarmad Ali, secretary general, Ilyas Shakir, Chairman Marketing & Distribution Committee, and Niloufer Patel, vice chairman of the […]

• June 6, 2014
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: The government’s committee is inching closer to revamping the code of conduct for print and electronic media, according to Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Affairs Irfan Siddiqui. On Thursday, Siddiqui told The Express Tribune that the code would not only ensure freedom of expression but also set certain red lines’. “We are […]

• June 3, 2014
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

Zafar Aheer, Resident Editor of “Daily Jang” was attacked by unknown armed men while returning home from work on May 31, 2014 in the city of Multan of Punjab province. He was shifted to the hospital and is in stable. Aheer told Pakistan Press Foundation that he was going home from work when six masked […]

• June 2, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) strongly condemned the continued acts of vandalism, harassment and intimidation unleashed against a particular and targeted media house, stated a press release issued on Sunday. The APNS noted with concern that in the wee hours of Sunday morning, some hooligans attacked, abused and brutally tortured Zafar Aheer, Editor […]

• May 29, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

KARACHI: Editors and office-bearers of the Karachi Press Club have appealed to all channels and newspapers to avoid confrontation because the recriminations of the last few weeks have put the “lives of journalists and other workers in danger”. The editors, who met here on Wednesday at the Karachi Press Club, called upon all channels and […]

• May 23, 2014
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid said on Thursday that there was no justification for shutting down a channel and if it had made a mistake, realised it and tendered an apology, it should be accepted. He said that it was advisable to follow the policy of live and let others live […]

• May 22, 2014
• Front Page, Media and Governance

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Senator Pervez Rashid said on Wednesday that the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), being an autonomous body, had the full authority to resolve issues relating to its domain, including the current one involving Geo network. “Pemra is an independent body and the government does not want to interfere in its matters,” […]

• May 19, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

Media is under attack within and without — raft with dangers of its crumbling as a fourth pillar of the state. The whole edifice of democratic dispensation will also teeter as a consequence if this divisive tide continues to sway the media landscape of the country. Indeed the vision of Pakistan of the founding founders […]

• May 19, 2014
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has said that the government believes in freedom of expression but it is the need of the hour to exercise this freedom with utmost responsibility. Talking to reporters after visiting an expo at the Pak-China Friendship Centre on Sunday, he said the government was committed to protecting media freedom but […]

• May 13, 2014
• Obituaries

KARACHI: Iqbal Manjal, a former Managing Director of Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt) Ltd, publishers of Dawn, died in Karachi early Monday after a brief illness and was laid to rest at Cutchi Memon graveyard. He was 84. For a man in his eighties, Mr Manjal was maintaining good health. However, about two months ago he […]

• May 10, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Civil Society Network on Friday staged a protest rally against the attack on senior journalist Hamid Mir and possible curb on the Jang Group, the country’s largest media organisation. Led by Awami National Party leader and former provincial minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) vice-president Shamim Shahid, […]