LAHORE: The counsel for the petitioner in case against Jang/Geo Group Thursday resorted to rowdyism and pushed the lawyer of the defendant calling him traitor. Additional Session Judge Ghulam Abbas Sayal adjourned hearing into petition of a local lawyer Sardar Wakeel Ahmad till April 25. The petitioner asked in petition that Geo TV blamed Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD: While the Defense Ministry wants to ban Geo and Jang Group newspapers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday showed some compassion when it condemned attack on Hamid Mir. At the weekly media briefing, the spokesperson was reminded that the US State Department, Reporters without Borders and the Amnesty International had condemned the brutal attack […]
IN the bizarre, whiplash-inducing fallout of the Hamid Mir shooting, an alarming new twist has occurred: the Ministry of Defence — really, the army/ISI leadership — has petitioned Pemra to cancel the TV licence of Geo News while also calling for action against the Jang group’s flagship newspapers under the defamation and press laws of […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) has condemned the attack on Geo News anchorperson Hamid Mir, terming it an attack on the freedom of the press. Addressing a press conference, bar president Shafqat Mahmood Chohan, vice president Amir Jalil Siddiqui, secretary Mian Ahmad and finance secretary Mian Iqbal said the Jang group and […]
ISLAMABAD: Reacting swiftly to the attack on senior journalist Hamid Mir, the federal government decided on Sunday to form a judicial commission to investigate the matter. After a meeting with close aides at his Lahore residence, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resolved to have the attempt on Mir’s life investigated at highest level. The government also […]
Speakers at International Literary, Cultural Conference urge Indian media to convey Pakistan’s peace message to Indians especially youth without any angling; Aman Ki Asha is not a debate but a conversation of love and affinity; Najam Sethi, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Mujibur Rehman Shami, Arif Nizami, Sofia Bedar, Sohail Warraich, Salim Safi, King Sukh Nath, Orya […]
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s Office and Pemra spokesmen have contradicted a news story published in The News on Monday headlined “Baboo set to make Rs4m monthly out of Nawaz’s promise to China.” The Prime Minister’s Office spokesman clarified that neither the prime minister nor anyone on his behalf ever contacted any person on the issue […]
Islamabad: The Jang Group gave awards to the Higher Education Commission’s top ranked universities of Pakistan here on Thursday. Ali Moeen Nawazish conducted the programme, whereas Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal was the chief guest on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, Jang Group Managing Director Marketing Sarmad Ali said: “It is […]
KARACHI: Following global trends Pakistan’s media industry has also come of age. High profile media mergers though common abroad were seldom heard of in Pakistan where large media houses have traditionally been conservative and are privately held companies and conglomerates. In what may easily be termed as the largest such merger ever in the fast […]
By: Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: Human Rights Watch (HRW), the leading human rights organisation of the world, has launched an offensive against the media instead of responding to journalistic criticism by ‘The News’ on its World Report-2013. HRW director in Pakistan Ali Dayan Hasan, in different media interactions, instead of elaborating the points of HRW World […]
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