ISLAMABAD: “He must be very happy that I am here in Pakistan, we had a plan to come to Islamabad together but that could not happen because … (a pause),” Kati Marton shared thoughts recalling her late husband, Richard Holbrooke, former US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, not long ago a household name in […]
ISLAMABAD: The Daily Times and Xinhua, Chinese state news agency, signed a bilateral cooperation agreement at a ceremony organised at a local hotel on Saturday. Under the pact, Xinhua has provided Daily Times an exclusive access to its news as well as pictorial content, in a first-of-its-kind deal by the Chinese official news agency with […]
ISLAMABAD: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said Pakistan can be a role model in the region and among the Muslim countries with reference to the media but the government needed to maintain a steady pace in resolving issues confronting the journalists. A delegation led by Kati Marton, the CPJ board member, is visiting […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced on Wednesday the setting up of a media commission for safety and security of journalists in Pakistan. “This commission will propose measures to be adopted by the government to protect journalists in the field and to ensure their well being,” an official statement quoting the PM as saying during […]
KARACHI: Coordinated efforts are necessary to deal with threats to Pakistani media and Committee for Protection of Journalists (CPJ) is consulting with all stakeholders including the government to ensure better steps for protection of journalists and freedom of expression, said Elisabeth Winchell, CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant here Wednesday. She was speaking at a ‘roundtable discussion […]
LAHORE: The National College of Arts (NCA) Archives Department organised a lecture titled “Race for Rating and Pakistani TV Channels” at the college auditorium on Monday. Known journalist Sohail Warriach was the speaker on the occasion, who enlightened the participants about the process of measuring rating of TV channels. He said that although media had […]
It is a fact that the media in Pakistan depicts the gender bias in our rigorously patriarchal society. The enormous influence the media has on constituting social change is also incontestable. However, it seems increasingly otiose to rely on the media to bring forth any change in this regard as long as Pakistan’s leading newspapers […]
QUETTA: Pakistan remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its annual report released on Wednesday, with Balochistan a hotspot for violence. Seven reporters were killed in the line of duty in 2013, the report said, blaming the government’s “unwillingness to administer justice”. […]
NEW YORK: Famous American author and journalist David Rohde, who escaped from Taliban captivity, has said that Pakistan should adopt a both dialogue and offence policy towards Taliban and it seems as if the Pakistani government is adopting the same combination. The people who believe in dialogue should be treated the same way but the […]
KARACHI: The port city of Pakistan is not a dangerous place at all but it is a city replete with life, spirit and activities as the hospitality of the Pakistani people has cast a lasting impression. These views were expressed by US journalists while talking to Pakistani media at a local hotel on Wednesday. The […]
KARACHI: After the East Pakistan tragedy, some communities in Pakistan are still being demonised with little attention being given to the Baloch population perhaps because it does not fetch electronic media good ratings, a national conference on media was informed on Wednesday. “We are still demonising communities yet no activism on the part of citizens […]
Away from the cameras and newsprint, a wave of fear and foreboding has swept through the media in recent weeks and months. Last week, in the killing of three Express News employees by the Taliban in Karachi, many of the industry’s fears coalesced bloodily – and few expect the threat to recede. In a series […]
ISLAMABAD: The objectivity of the electronic media is becoming highly questionable. Sensationalism, yellow journalism and fabrication are some terms that are continuously being used and heard today. Issues of national interest need care and restraint but the electronic media is failing to deliver objective reporting. There is a multitude of laws and ethics that the […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is never short of lame excuses and sick-minded arguments when it comes to competition and the same has happened in the case of Geo TV telecasting exclusive footage of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry’s farewell reference. Those lawyers, journalists and media organs against whom the Supreme Court had either taken notice or delivered […]
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