KARACHI: Attempts to attack media houses in Karachi were widely condemned by almost all sections of the society on Tuesday. The Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) condemned the instances of crackers hurled at the offices Business Recorder, and Nawa-e-Waqt Group and explosive material planted at the ARY channel head office in Karachi on Monday evening. Citing these as attempts
KARACHI/PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD – Like other parts of the country, journalists’ organisations on Tuesday staged protest demonstrations against the bomb attacks on Nawa-i-Waqt Group offices and other media houses in Karachi. Leaders of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists including Khurshid Abbasi, Amin Yousaf, President of Karachi Union of Journalists GM Jamali, Secretary of Karachi Union of Journalists (Dastoor) Sajid Ali Sajid,
Two employees of a media house were injured on February 17, 2014 when two unknown men riding on a bike hurled hand-grenades at the main gates of two media houses in Karachi namely, Business Recorder Group and Nawa-i-Waqt. No one has claimed the responsibility of attacks. Another bomb was discovered on February 18 in the parking lot of ARY television
EVOLVING situations require constantly evolving regulatory mechanisms, and one area where Pakistan is lacking is in terms of internet safety — even though the World Wide Web and its benefits can hardly be said to be new realities. Last year, the Federal Investigation Agency received more than 1,000 complaints regarding cyber crime, particularly malicious stalking, the hijacking of social media
The working journalists under the banner of Hyderabad Union of Journalists on Monday staged a protest demonstration here in front of Hyderabad Press Club on Monday night against the bomb attack on the office of Aaj TV. The demonstrators led by President HUJ Junaid Khanzada strongly criticised the attacks on television news channel. Among others, senior journalist Lal Rehman Sammu,
KARACHI: Jameel Soomro, media adviser to PPP Patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has condemned “cowardly attacks” that targeted buildings of two media groups in the city on Monday. He said that so-called religious fanatics were spreading anarchy and terrorism in the country. He added that unity is the need of hour to combat this menace and Pakistani nation should raise the
FOR the foreseeable future, the curtains have come down on Peshawar’s cinemas in the wake of two deadly attacks targeting movie theatres in the KP capital. While the banned TTP may have officially denied involvement in the attacks, it is highly likely individuals influenced by the militants’ ideology were involved in the incidents, zeroing in on ‘immoral’ targets. Cinema owners
HYDERABAD: Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh, a death row prisoner convicted in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl, had attempted suicide in his Hyderabad jail cell earlier this week, just a day before his appeal was to be heard in the Sindh High Court. Shaikh along with his three other accomplices, Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Shaikh Adil, was convicted
Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has blocked almost everything on the Internet in the name of security or morality. Who gave PTA this right to suffocate us? As a free citizen I have the right and authority to surf and watch whatever I want to. The PTA has no right to stop me in the name of moral policing. Being a
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