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Safety of journalists during polls coverage demanded

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KARACHI: In Pakistan journalists are facing immense problems regarding their safety and it is necessary that all the stakeholders including government take concrete steps to ensure their security while covering the coming general elections, said speakers of a moot here Friday in connection with World Press Freedom Day. The roundtable discussion on “Safety of Journalists […]


One journalist killed, two injured in suicide blast

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Tariq Aslam, sub-editor of Urdu-Language newspaper “Daily Pakistan” died while Azhar Ali Shah, news editor of same paper and Ihtisham Khan, reporter of “Express News” television station were wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a political rally on April 16, 2013 in Peshawar, the capital city of northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa. According to press […]


CPNE condemns attack on newspaper office

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KARACHI: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has condemned attack on Balochistan newspaper daily Tawar’s bureau office in Karachi. Office bearers of CPNE said in a statement issued on Saturday that some unknown persons attacked on newspaper’s office who not only took away costly office equipment but also set on fire its record. The CPNE […]


ECP rejects columnist Ayaz Amir’s nomination papers

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Sajjad Haider KARACHI: The Election Commission has rejected the nomination papers of renowned columnist and Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ayaz Amir ‘for writing against the ideology of Pakistan’ in his columns. District Returning Officer (DRO) Ch Anwer Ahmed Khan also summoned Amir to appear before court by April 6. Eyewitnesses said local […]


Discipline and freedom of speech

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THIS is with reference to Karam A. Siddiqui’s letter ‘PAF: discipline and quality’ (March 7). A modern air force needs to review its concepts of ‘discipline’ and ‘equality’. Discipline should not stop someone from thinking independently as ‘yesmanship’ creates stagnation in an organisation. Freedom of expression is one’s right, whereas taking decisions is commanders’ privilege. […]


Free expression

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By: Farooq Sulehria The post-modernist dictatorship over media scholarship 1980s onwards has banalised journalistic narratives. While important issues – for instance debate over media imperialism – have been trivialised, trifles have been assigned centrality in the media discourses. In recent years and months, we have seen the consequences of this banality. Kerfuffle over an anti-Islam […]


Newspaper reporter, three others gunned down

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Karachi: Four people, including a newspaper reporter, were killed in separate incidents across the city on Sunday. Sheikh Ali Mohsin, 32, was shot dead in Gulbahar police jurisdiction. The incident took place at about 7:30am near Parda Park. Senior Superintendent of Police Amir Farooqui of Central District said Mohsin was a resident of New Karachi […]


Contemporary writers being denied freedom of expression

By: Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: It’s ironic that the poets of the classical Urdu literature era were never restrained from expressing their bold poetic views and no one ever questioned their honesty of purpose regarding their works, but the writers of present times are facing great hardships on the issue of freedom of expression. These […]


Youtube team to visit this month: National Assembly body approves Telecommunication (Re-organisation) Bill

In a bid to eradicate grey trafficking, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology on Wednesday approved ‘The Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organisation) Bill of 2012’, which would be presented before the lower house of parliament in the next session. The committee, which met under Chaudhry Barjees Tahir, expressed irritation over the alleged silence by officials […]


‘YouTube blockade’

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This refers to your editorial ‘YouTube blockade’ (Jan 29). The continuous ban on YouTube serves no purpose when the whole world has an access to it. I believe that we must register our protest now. It is time to move ahead. For how long will we be having no access to various materials on the […]


YouTube to remain blocked: PTA

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ISLAMABAD: Months after the initial ban on popular video sharing site, YouTube, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) on Wednesday announced that the government still has no intention of unblocking it. The PTA apprised the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology on Wednesday regarding the status of YouTube, which was banned after the launch of […]


Media role vital for democracy, says Zardari

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LAHORE – President Asif Ali Zadari has said that the role of media is vital for a stable democratic system in the country. Talking to Nawa-i-Waqt Group Managing Director Majid Nizami at a luncheon meeting at Bilawal House on Wednesday, the president said the role and contribution made by the media to the restoration of […]


Other Malalas

Sir: I appreciate Malala Yousufzai who is from Swat. But I also keep thinking about the rest of the Malalas in Swat. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government claims that it has prioritised education. I personally belong to Swat, Kohistan, which consists of three union councils having only one girls high school in Bahrain town. Besides, there […]


Pakistan Taliban ‘ban vulgar films, Viagra’

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PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban have warned shopkeepers in a popular market to stop selling “obscene films” and Viagra-style male potency pills. Shopkeepers told AFP on Monday that they found handwritten pamphlets containing the warnings after opening on Saturday in Karkhano market in Peshawar. “Selling sex drugs, vulgar films and obscene movies are against Sharia,” said […]