ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid said on Thursday that there was no justification for shutting down a channel and if it had made a mistake, realised it and tendered an apology, it should be accepted. He said that it was advisable to follow the policy of live and let others live (Geo or Jeenay do). He
LAHORE: The journalist community stood by the Jang Group on Wednesday and boycotted the Punjab Assembly proceedings followed by warning of strict action by Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan to the cable operators illegally blacking out the Geo News. The journalists from all news channels and newspapers unanimously boycotted the proceedings of the Punjab Assembly to show solidarity with the
ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist and Geo News anchor Hamid Mir Tuesday appeared before the Judicial Commission third time and recorded his statement. Upon arrival at the court, Hamid Mir was accorded a warm welcome by the journalists from different media outlets who were chanting slogans in his favour and were demanding justice.Hamid Mir came into court on wheel chairs accompanied by
LONDON: Britain’s Minister for Justice and Civil Liberties Simon Hughes MP has said that the assassination attempt on Geo anchor Hamid Mir’s life is “doubly unacceptable” because Hamid Mir has done his job as a critical journalist. Speaking to The News here, the Liberal Democrats leader said that any individual being attacked in unacceptable but Hamid Mir’s case is important
ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist and anchorperson of Geo TV Hamid Mir on Monday appeared before the Judicial Commission in the Supreme Court and recorded his statement. Hamid Mir, who arrived in the Supreme Court on a wheelchair along with a large number of media persons, appeared before the Judicial Commission for the second time and recorded his statement before the commission,
Evolving democracies like Pakistan have sharper contradictions between major power institutions. As it is a young democracy, the struggle between different power centres is noisy and dirty. At the same time, it is worrying for all democrats because democracy has been killed in its infancy many a time by military dictators. The present strain in the civil and military relationship
I can never forget November 26, 2012 when in the afternoon Mr. Hamid Mir called me telling that there was a bomb found installed in his car. The next thing, he quickly told me not saying further about what he was going through, but about the panelists he was interested to have in the show, and also asked me to
KARACHI: Acting IG Sindh Karachi on Friday submitted his report on the progress made in the investigation in Hamid Mir attack case to the Supreme Court’s 3-member inquiry commission probing firing incident on the senior Geo TV journalist. The commission headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali is to ascertain facts, identify culprits and fix responsibility for the incident.Hamid Mir was
LAHORE: Showing solidarity with senior anchorperson Hamid Mir and Jang/Geo, journalists, politicians, religious leaders and members of civil society vowed on Thursday to resist any move to ban Jang/Geo at any pretext. They were speaking at a protest demonstration, held under the banner of Life Members Forum of Lahore Press Club at the LPC here. The participants raised slogans in
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