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Civil society, journalists urge marchers not to wait for third umpire

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ISLAMABAD: Journalists and civil society organisations on Sunday stated that the marchers should not keep on waiting for the third umpire to intervene and instead initiate relief work for victims of flash floods and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who look towards their fellow countrymen for help in this critical phase of their lives. Speaking at […]


Conspiracy still on, says Khursheed

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ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Wednesday warned that a conspiracy is still being hatched and political leaders will have to demonstrate patience to come out of the current situation. The opposition leader seemed happy that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) parliamentarians, including the party’s deputy parliamentary leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi, […]


Imran Khan announces PTI boycott of Jang and Geo Group

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairperson Imran Khan on Thursday alleged that the Jang and Geo Group had a hand in the rigging that took place in the May 2013 elections. Based on this, he said, he and other members of his party would no longer make appearances on Geo until he receives an apology. Khan’s […]


Conflict narratives and media complicity

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The fiercest political confrontation in some years is playing out in Pakistan. Political ambitions, careers, mandates and jobs are at stake. And the pitched battles, which have spilled over from the realm of sound bites into physical violence, is underpinned by real-time sensationalist rhetoric and hysterical, rebellious narratives. Facilitators of this rhetoric and narrative are […]


PTI not involved in PTV attack: Qureshi

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek—Insaf (PTI) senior leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Monday that no party worker was involved in attack on PTV. Talking with media here Qureshi said that ‘Gullu Butts’ were attacking the TV channel disguised in the police uniform. “Imran Khan had administered oath from all party workers and after that all workers have […]


Manhandling of media men by protesters, police widely condemned

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ISLAMABAD: Terming the mob attack on the Parliament House and the Prime Minister House a dark chapter in the history of democracy, journalists and the civil society organisations on Sunday maintained that the people have seen the real face of Imran Khan and Dr. Tahriul Qadri who are bent upon derailing the democratic process to […]


Govt doles out Rs2.5 bn among lawyers, journalists: Imran

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Thursday alleged that the government had distributed Rs2.5 billion among journalists and lawyers through the Intelligence Bureau in the last one day.Addressing the participants of the Azadi March, he claimed that “from the residence of a senior lawyer, Rs20.5 million were stolen and it should be told […]


If TV cameras are removed from red zone, there will be no revolution

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KARACHI: There has been a shift from one dominant institution to multiple institutions in Pakistan which has transformed into an urban country where provision of goods is now a privatised process. These thoughts were articulated on Wednesday by political economist Dr Akbar Zaidi invited by the Karachi University faculty of arts to deliver a lecture […]


Geo, Jang, The News didn’t fail you, Mr Khan!

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ISLAMABAD: It is not Geo TV that failed in bringing a crowd of millions to Imran Khan’s rally in order to dislodge the PML-N government, yet its staff assigned to cover the PTI’s sit-in are being hounded, harassed and attacked by PTI workers. This policy is in practice either with the tacit support or criminal […]


Geo TV crew manhandled

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ISLAMABAD: Some participants of the Azadi March manhandled mediapersons of a private TV channel and damaged ‘digital satellite news gathering’ (DSNG) vehicle on Saturday. Azaz Syed and Farhat Javed Rabbani of Geo TV while covering the event came across an unfriendly crowd of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI), although they hid their identity to avoid the wrath […]


PM wants media not to be used by anti-democratic forces

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan electronic media’s obsession with so-called revolutionists by going overboard in showing the hate and anti-democracy speeches also caught the attention of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif as the PM in his speech on Tuesday requested mildly not to be used by those who have anti-democratic agenda. The PM said that some elements were […]


HRCP raps parties to reckless power struggle

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LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed alarm at an “exaggerated hassle over who should occupy the gaddi (throne)” leading to total neglect of the state’s affairs. It has called upon the government to focus on the people’s real issues and urged those going to march on Islamabad and have other such […]


There’s greatness in forgiving: Pervaiz Rashid

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ISAMABAD: The Federal Minister for Information, Senator Pervaiz Rashid, on Thursday said shutting down a TV channel was no solution if it had made a mistake. “We want to see the media getting stronger,” the minister said while speaking at a seminar held under the aegis of Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) here.The minister […]


Protests against unlawful ban on Geo TV go on

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LAHORE: Protests against an unlawful ban on the Geo TV network across the country and an attack on senior anchorperson Hamid Mir continued here on Wednesday on the Davis Road outside the Jang/Geo offices in which a large number of people from various segments of life including lawyers, journalists, leaders of labrour unions and workers […]