• October 10, 2013
• General News

KARACHI: Actor Reema, who has recently taken on her husband’s name ‘Tariq’, met journalists at Karachi Press Club on Wednesday to admire their determination. “There are two kinds of fighters in this world – the first are those who physically fight the war and the second are the ones who fight the war through words,” […]

• September 17, 2013
• Obituaries

LAHORE: Speakers at a condolence reference paid rich tributes to veteran journalist and selfless trade unionist I.H. Raashed here on Friday, stressing the need for following the examples set by him in leading the community honestly. The reference was organised by the Lahore Press Club during which speakers mentioned how the late journalist continued to […]

• September 13, 2013
• General News

LAHORE: Syed Irshad Hussain Rashid – more commonly known as I H Rashid – breathed his last on August 8 of this year. During his funeral in Lahore, it was of no surprise that many in attendance were those journalists whose rights he campaigned for throughout his life. “I H Rashid’s actions spoke louder than […]

• September 10, 2013
• Front Page, Media and Governance, Media Ethics

KARACHI: Members of the Sindh Assembly Press Gallery protested on Monday against termination of service of over 25 journalists of the Jahan-i-Pakistan newspaper, killing of a journalist of a TV channel, inordinate delay in payment of salaries by some channels, and a recent incident of snatching purses and cellphones from four journalists of daily Dawn. […]

• September 8, 2013
• Media and Governance, Media Ethics

Karachi: The journalist community will boycott the Sindh Assembly session of September 9 (Monday) against the forceful terminations of as many as 26 journalists from a local newspaper, President Karachi Union of Journalists announced this on Saturday. Addressing a protest meeting outside the newspaper office, President KUJ GM Jamali said that they would record their […]

• August 26, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

KARACHI, Aug 25: The Karachi Union of Journalists will resist attempts by the government, the Pemra or from any other quarter to impose any restraint on electronic media. A resolution adopted at the annual general council of the KUJ on Saturday said the journalist community would thwart attempts by any quarter to suspend transmission of […]