There is a requirement to form an independent media policy after essential input from all political parties, intelligentsia and other stakeholders The media, as a significant instrument of national power, may have emerged in the late 20th century but the relevance of media is by no means a new phenomenon. The media has always been […]
Karachi: The journalists of Karachi Press Club and Mumbai Press Club demanded on Saturday an end to the restrictions on communication and travel on the journalists of India and Pakistan and allowing them unrestricted access to all parts of the two neighbouring countries in pursuit of media coverage. The two journalist organisations had signed a […]
ISLAMABAD: There might be many reasons for the apparent decline of quality journalism in Pakistan. But perhaps one reason is that journalists in the country today do not have any role models from within their own industry. They are not aware of dedicated journalists who passed before them, people such as the late Akhtar bin […]
Climate change experts in a day-long journalist workshop on Thursday stressed upon media to mainstream the issue of climate change not just as an environmental issue, but as a development and economic challenge. The workshop titled “Taking Pakistan to COP19” was organised on the eve of UN Climate Change Conference (COP19) by LEAD Pakistan and […]
Pakistan’s media is guilty of being a microcosm of the society that it reports on, reports for and reports to. It is a reflection and an extension of Pakistan at large. The 2013 elections provided the people of Pakistan with an all-too-rare opportunity to shape their own destiny. Politics, economics and society are changing rapidly […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani media on Wednesday urged the government to do more to show it is sincere about its desire to end US drone strikes in the country’s tribal regions. An Amnesty International report on the US drone campaign on Tuesday warned some of the strikes may amount to war crimes, though Washington insists they all […]
Reporters Without Borders condemns a year-old fatwa naming certain Pakistani media and journalists as “enemies of the mujahideen” that was re-issued on 19 October in the form of a post on Twitter. “We condemn this explicit and targeted threat to journalists, which greatly increases the dangers to which they are already exposed,” Reporters Without Borders […]
LAHORE: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has expressed its resolve to continue informing facts to the general public despite unfavourable circumstances and threats. This was stated at the CPNE Standing Committee meeting held under the chairmanship of the Council President Jamil Athar Qazi in Lahore in which serious concern was expressed over the […]
ISLAMABAD: Broadcast news channels devoted “very little” prime time space to voter education in the campaign period before the 2013 general elections. But TV stations appeared to cash every chance to make money from political ads in the run-up to election day, suggests a report by the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) Pakistan […]
For some places to get any attention, people have to die. In Balochistan, mere death is not good enough, people have to die in large numbers, better still, die due to a natural calamity since natural disasters seem to be politically neutral. As Awaran was struck by one of the most horrific earthquakes of recent […]
Four months after the US-led attack on Afghanistan, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted in Karachi and beheaded. That was only the first of a large number of murders of journalists we were to see in the coming years. Till a few years ago, no one in the Pakistani media could believe that […]
LAHORE: The court has issued notices to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Axact Pvt Ltd, and Labbaik Pvt Ltd, on an appeal filed against an order of the authority on the issue of BOL TV licence. A single-judge bench of the Lahore High Court, comprising Justice Ejazul Ahsan, issued the notices to the above-mentioned […]
A LONG time ago the church was very powerful in Europe. So powerful that if anybody spoke against the priest or pastor, he was punished to the extent that his or her generations remembered. The common punishment was burning alive on the stakes. The church used to poke its nose in all affairs, may it […]
The mushroom growth of the electronic media, since the advent of granting operating licences to private TV channels more than a decade ago, has offered the viewers a wide spectrum of news coverage, but also added to their woes by – at times – presenting uncorroborated news as fact. The electronic media is an extremely […]
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