QUETTA:Quetta police on Friday booked the daily Jang, Mashriq, Intikhab and Century Express for printing statements of banned outfits. According to details, DSP Ameer Muhammad Dasti and his guard Aftab were killed by unidentified assailants on the Barori Road on April 8. The responsibility for the killing was claimed by Ghazi Haq Nawaz, spokesperson for […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan is set to order the release of a secret list of journalists and media organisations bribed by the government in the name of national security. The decision in this regard is expected to be taken next week.The long kept secret had never been revealed in the country’s 65 years […]
By: Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: In little over two months this year, five confirmed journalists were killed in line of their duty – one in North Waziristan and four in Balochistan. Pakistan has been ranked the “most dangerous country” for journalists in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The impunity on crimes against journalists made the situation so […]
By: Ashraf Ansari Islamabad: At a seminar on media ethics and court reporting, senior journalists and lawyers agreed that there was urgent need to abide by the professional norms by media, lawyers and other professionals in fulfilment of national imperatives. Islamabad High Court Bar Association organised the seminar in collaboration with Press Council of Pakistan […]
By: Samira Shackle It is sometimes a surprise to outsiders — expecting censorship and oppression — that Pakistan has such a free and vibrant media. Speaking in 2010, the political theorist Noam Chomsky remarked that Pakistan’s media was less censored than in neighbouring India, generally described as the world’s largest democracy. “In Pakistan, I listened […]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Zardari has expressed his best wishes and prayed for early recovery of two senior journalists Nazir Naji and Abbas Athar, who are not feeling well these days and are admitted to hospitals in Lahore. Wishing these two journalists early recovery and good health, the president has sent those bouquets. The News
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) Raja Muhammad Shafqat Abbasi on Wednesday vowed to protect the journalists for their right of freedom to access information. Addressing a consultative meeting of journalists and lawyers organised by Intermedia for “Attacks against Journalists” here, he said the mandate of Council was to receive the complaints and to […]
Islamabad: The Supreme Court (SC) has barred the acting Chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Dr Abdul Jabbar from discharging his duties, Geo News reported Thursday. The SC was hearing the petition filed by senior journalists’ Hamid Mir and Absar Alam regarding the formation of a media commission. During the hearing, Justice Jawwad […]
By: Mariana Baabar ISLAMABAD: The Military Intelligence (MI) has initiated a country wide exercise, where they are knocking at the doors of journalists and columnists seeking help in providing them details about themselves in a two-page form in Urdu, for what they say is a verification process. The News saw the names of nearly a […]
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