Transmission of several television news channels went off air for about six hours on afternoon of Saturday October 25, 2014 in Karachi and the other part of the Sindh province after threats were received by unidentified men on telephone to some cable operators. Without naming any political party, the Cable Operators Association President Khalid Arain […]
KARACHI: Almost all of the political parties of the country have condemned PEMRA’s decision of suspending the license of ARY News, in strongest of the words, ARY News reported. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that PEMRA is not independent in making its decisions, while his party stands with ARY News on the […]
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief, Altaf Hussain, called upon the cable operators to restore Geo TV and other channels on their original numbers forthwith across the country and told them they should not accept the pressure being exerted from any quarter. He said that the cable operators should restore the Geo News and […]
LONDON: Altaf Hussain, the exiled leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), has strongly condemned the suspension of Geo’s licence saying that the decision by Pemra was excessive as the ban could have perhaps been slapped “for a day”. He suggested that the Geo licence suspension was an attack on the free press and expressed […]
KARACHI: Hundreds of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers staged a protest demonstration at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday against the Amnesty International while leaders of the ruling party warned that if harm came to MQM’s founding chief Altaf Hussain, ‘the city would burst into flames’. Without naming any particular individual, political party or a […]
Journalists in Pakistan live under the constant threat of killings, harassment and other violence from all sides, including intelligence services, political parties and armed groups like the Taliban, Amnesty International said in a new report today. ‘A bullet has been chosen for you’: Attacks on journalists in Pakistan, describes how the Pakistani authorities have almost […]
LONDON: Founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain has expressed concern over threats made against journalists. He has demanded that the government should take a serious notice of the threats and provide protection to senior journalists and anchor-persons. In a statement issued from London, Hussain said, “It is on the record that the […]
KARACHI: Sindh Assembly (SA) on Monday passed a resolution against the attack on senior journalist and anchorperson Hamid Mir. Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) parliamentary leader Syed Sardar Ahmed, Nand Kumar Goklani and Nusrat Sehar Abbasi of Pakistan Muslim League (F) and Syed Hafeezuddin of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) tabled the resolution. […]
Karachi: Journalists across the country continued protesting against the attack on Geo News anchorman Hamid Mir on the third consecutive day on Monday. Karachi-based journalists gathered outside the press club to demand an independent judicial inquiry into the attack. The demonstration was organised by the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) on the call of the […]
ISLAMABAD: Although party’s spokesman Wasay Jalil denies that convicted killers of Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar belong to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the joint interrogation report by country’s six top intelligence agencies has established that at least three of the six convicts were from MQM. It is also a strange coincidence that Salman Mujhahid, […]
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) urged the government on Wednesday to promulgate an ordinance to restrict the print and electronic media from publishing or broadcasting any statement of the Taliban. The MQM coordination committee appealed to the government to provide full protection to all newspaper and electronic media offices so that journalists could continue […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has demanded a transparent inquiry into the abduction and murder of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker in Karachi and called for probing complaints by the party of extrajudicial killing and illegal detention of its workers. In a press statement issued on Monday, HRCP said: “The MQM […]
KARACHI: Only hours after an anti-terrorism court declared him a proclaimed offender facing Arshad Pappu’s murder trial, Lyari’s Uzair Jan Baloch opened his arms wide for the journalists he invited to his house for iftar. On Tuesday, nearly 500 journalists, from both print and electronic media, made their way to Lyari to break their fast […]
By: Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has found itself embroiled in a serious controversy of editorial independence after the editorial managers decided not to publish online the full investigative report of Owen Bennett-Jones, the BBC reporter who led investigations into the Muttahida Qaumi Movement for the flagship Newsnight programme. A BBC […]
” 
” 
” 
” 
