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Jang-Geo reporter in Sanghar passes away

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SUKKUR: The senior reporter of Jang/Geo Sanghar, Akhtar Qureshi, has passed away after cardiac arrest on Friday. Journalists, civil society, and politicians of Sanghar have paid rich tributes to his services and said the deceased would be remembered for long. Newspaper: The News


IFJ concerned over attack on Geo-Jang offices

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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Thursday expressed concern over last week’s attack on the office of Geo and Jang media group in Karachi. “The IFJ expresses its concern over the actions of protesters who attacked the Geo-Jang media group and the lack of police presence as this publicized protest turned violent,” it said. […]


Applications sought for Jang, Geo, Aga Khan Trust Architecture Design Awards

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LAHORE: The Architecture Design Awards under the Jang Group, Geo TV and Aga Khan Trust for Culture has been announced. An introductory ceremony for this purpose was organised at Alhamra on Wednesday. On the occasion, Faqeer Ijazuddin, Nayyer Ali Dada, Masood Khan and Kamran Lashari expressed their views about Lahore city and its landscape. Maria […]


Indian media propaganda New Delhi’s policy: Sethi

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LAHORE: The Indian media resorts to anti-Pakistan propaganda on the directives of New Delhi but it cannot sustain for long, said senior analyst NajamSethi in Geo News programme ‘AapaskiBaat’ on Sunday. The Indian media, he said, tried its best to prove the boy arrested in Kashmir as a Pakistani but it had been revealed that […]


Living like a fugitive

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Islamabad: The most famous television journalist in Pakistan lives like a fugitive. Hamid Mir tells no one where he is going, how he will get there or where he will spend the night. At Mir’s office, his curtains are always drawn. He uses at least two cellphones and, until recently, he rotated among three residences […]


Ban on Geo in AJK lifted

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ISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Minister for Information Sardar Abid Hussain handed over the copy of notification regarding lifting of ban on Geo News transmission to Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) President Afzal Butt at National Press Club on Wednesday. The notification to lift the ban on the transmission of Geo News was […]


Shab-i-Manajat on Geo TV breaks records of popularity

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KARACHI: The soulful transmission Shab-i-Manajat on Geo TV on the Shab-i-Barat wrote a new chapter of success by breaking all records of popularity in the history of electronic media. The transmission led by world known research scholar Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain has surpassed its contestant channels by winning GRPs in record number of 83.84, according […]


The map shown by all; certain people zero in on Geo

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ISLAMABAD: The map of the Jammu and Kashmir region has always been subject to errors – and these errors are mostly, if not always, unintentional, clerical mistakes and not part of a “greater agenda” as some quarters in the media are continuously propagating, said Shahzeb Khanzada in his programme on Geo News on Monday night. […]


Black phone story is fake: PTA

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ISLAMABAD: A systematic propaganda campaign to defame Geo and Jang Group has once again failed miserably as the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has exposed the reality of so-called “black phone scandal” by confirming that the largest media group of Pakistan had never requested or acquired any such phone and all letters being circulated on the […]


PTI ends Geo, Jang Group boycott

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has formally ended the boycott of the Jang Group, following the formation of a dispute resolution and probe committee. A PTI release issued here said that after a series of meetings between the PTI and the representatives of Jang/Geo, it was mutually agreed to resolve outstanding issues between the two sides. […]


Palejo condemns attack on Geo offices

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KARACHI: Condemning attack on Geo offices, chief of the Awami Tehreek Ayaz Palejo has demanded of the authorities to arrest the culprits. He said that harassment of journalists and attack on media houses was a brazen violation of articles 9 and 19 of the Constitution. He termed attack on Geo, an attack on freedom of […]


Another addition in Geo network “Geo Kahani”

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“Geo Kahani” is a new channel committed to excellence. The breaking news is “AAG TV” which was launched, about seven years back is going to take the shape of a new channel “Geo Kahani”. The channel replacement took place to adhere to the latest demands of public and information technology. It is a good sign […]


Geo News draws criticism from PML-N, PTI

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KARACHI: A day after Geo News unveiled what appears to be one of the largest election transmissions in the history of broadcasting in Pakistan, it drew criticism from the two parties who are predicted to steal the show in the polls being held across the country today. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) issued a press […]


Emirates-Pakistan, Geo to work for revival of cinema in country

KARACHI: Geo has once again fulfilled its promises. In 2012, when the Emirates Airlines-sponsored super hit film “London, Paris, New York” was released, Geo had made a promise to viewers of the film that air tickets for London, Paris and New York on the Emirates Airlines will be presented as gift to those lucky persons […]