• September 18, 2013
• Media Development

Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has said that media is playing the opposition role in the third world countries where opposition is failed to play its role. Addressing the ceremony organised by South Asian Media School (SAMS) in connection with the launching of new programs in SAMS. Executive Director SAMS Imtiaz Alam, senior journalist Munno […]

• July 28, 2013
• Media Development

By: Shabbir Sarwar LAHORE: In a seminar organised by the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) on the Media Commission report, Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors former president Arif Nizami, SAFMA Secretary General Imtiaz Alam and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Associate Professor Dr Osama Siddique addressed the audience, while participants from various media […]

• May 5, 2013
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE: The South Asian Free Media Association and the South Asia Media Commission have urged the authorities in Pakistan to ensure that the media works freely while covering general election in the country. In a joint statement on Press Freedom Day, SAFMA Secretary General Imtiaz Alam and SAMC Secretary General M Ziauddin showed concern over […]

• March 1, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

KARACHI: South Asian Free Media Association, South Asia Media Commission and Media Commission-Pakistan have jointly condemned the killings of two journalists in a week. The joint statement was released by Safma Secretary General Imtiaz Alam, SAMC Secretary General M Ziauddin, and Media Commission-Pakistan’s president Arif Nizami and General Secretary Babar Ayaz. The joint statement said […]

• January 10, 2013
• Media Development, Training and Capacity Building

The eighth regional conference of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), in which members from eight countries of South Asia participated, was recently held in both Amritsar and Lahore. Their ‘peace caravan’, comprising over 200 delegates, crossed the border into Lahore on Monday in the hopes of “opening minds and borders”. The usual themes […]

• January 8, 2013
• General News

* Indian PM plans to visit Pakistan ‘with something concrete in his bag’ when new government is in place By Tariq Farid LAHORE: The South Asian Free Media Association’s (SAFMA) “peace caravan” comprising participants from all the South Asian countries arrived here on Monday from Amritsar with a loud message of “opening minds and borders”. […]