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Media ignored military operation in Kech district, says BSO-Azad leader

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KARACHI: Activists of the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Monday demanding the media’s attention towards ongoing operation in the Tump and Gomazai areas of Kech district. The press conference was held by an all-women group led by the BSO senior vice chairperson, Kareema Baloch. “The military operation […]


Call to defend people’s right to democratically elected govt

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KARACHI: Executive Director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour and Education Research (Piler) Karamat Ali has said the ones who will lose amid the ongoing tussle between the “revolutionaries and the state are the people of Pakistan, who are being taken for a ride”. Speaking at the Karachi Press Club during a hurriedly called press […]


No synergy between LEAs responsible for Karachi mess: HRCP

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Karachi: Karachi’s deteriorating law and order situation is the result of weak governance, absence of a local government system and the reigning confusion that stems from lack of coordination between the federal and provincial authorities as well as among the law enforcement agencies (LEAs). These observations were made by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan […]


Trade unionists hail move to unify PFUJ factions

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KARACHI: A move to unify different factions of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has infused a new spirit among trade union workers and highlighted the need for bringing all trade unions on a single platform so that the present trend of workers’ exploitation through contract employees could be checked and their due rights could […]


Govt urged to get reporter freed

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KARACHI: Journalists urged the government on Tuesday to use diplomatic channels to secure release of television reporter Faizullah Khan who has been jailed for four years by the Afghan authorities for having illegally crossed the border. During a protest held outside the Karachi Press Club, leaders of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ-Dastoor) and office-bearers […]


A tribute to silent media figures of Pakistan

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Pakistan’s silent yet pioneering media figures were paid glowing tributes by students, faculty and media at a seminar organised by PR and media students amid the guidance of Parvez Jamil, Faculty Adviser, Media Management Program, Institute of Business Management. Gracing the occasion was Shahida Kazi, quietly yet vitally, the first English language female reporter at […]


Journalists observe ‘black day’

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ISLAMABAD: Journalists observed a ‘black day’ on Friday across Pakistan on the call of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) to protest curbs on the media and the promulgation of two anti-media ordinances. Journalists set up camps and held meetings, wearing black ribbons and armbands. They also boycotted official functions. Some buildings housing newspaper […]


Journalist’s home bombed in Pakistan

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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in strongly condemning the bomb attack on the home of a journalist in Peshawar, Pakistan on July 2, 2014 – the third attack on the journalist’s home this year. This week’s incident saw unidentified attackers placed a bomb in […]


Pakistani TV journalist suffers third bomb attack in four months

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A Pakistani journalist escaped unhurt when a bomb exploded outside their home in Peshawar on Wednesday (2 July). It was the third attack on Jamshed Baghwan, the bureau chief of Express News, in four months. He saw men who arrived on a motorcycle planting the bomb, enabling him and his wife enough time to take […]


House of journalist attacked with explosive device for third time

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The house of Jamshed Bhagwan, Bureau Chief of Express News television channel was attacked with an explosive for third on July 2 in Peshawar, the capital of province Khyber-Pakhtukhuwa. A remote-controlled explosive material was placed by the unidentified men, outside the residence of Bhagwan, and it exploded while the journalist was at home. The Express […]


Journalists’ problems to be resolved as per govt policy: CS

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Karachi: Chief Secretary Sindh Sajjad Saleem Hotiana has assured the office-bearers of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) that the journalists’ problems will be resolved in accordance with the government policy. He expressed these views while talking to a KPC delegation led by its President Imtiaz Khan Faran on Wednesday. Director Public Relations Naukhaiz Anwar Siddiqui […]


Journalists decry curbs on media

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ISLAMABAD: The journalists organisations on Monday continued their protest against the unannounced curbs on Geo and ARY and newspapers Jang and The News and called for complete unity among the media outlets, both print and electronic, to protect the hard-earned freedom of expression. The journalists gathered at the protest camps set up in front of […]


Cable operators assail govt policy

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KARACHI: The Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (COAP) has vowed to continue its struggle against what it calls steps to curb media freedom and warned the federal government of besieging various official institutions if it continues with the policy. Speaking at a demonstration held outside the Karachi Press Club on Thursday in protest against the […]


Endowment fund to be set up for journalists: Memon

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KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon has said that the provincial government, in collaboration with the private sector, has planned to institute an endowment fund for journalists. Talking to newsmen at the Karachi Press Club, which he visited on Thursday to distribute challans for the plots allotted sometime ago to members of the club, he […]