ISLAMABAD: Senator Zahid Khan of the ANP on Wednesday raised his voice against keeping Geo News off air, saying that the government should tell the nation why the channel was facing being blocked for the last four months. “What was its fault that despite paying the heavy fine it was not restored to its original position,” the ANP legislator asked,
MARDAN: The identities of the three men accused of killing an employee of daily Mashriq, an Urdu newspaper, were disclosed by the police in a news conference on Wednesday. Addressing the media at his office, Mardan DPO Gul Afzal Afridi said Ihsan Ali, an assistant at an Urdu newspaper’s bureau in Mardan was gunned down outside his office on August
KARACHI: A Jang Group spokesman said on Wednesday that an advertisement headlined “For God’s sake help us dear parliamentarians” has been appearing on the front pages of The News and Jang for two consecutive days and the editorial staff of the Jang Group has also contacted the heads, other leaders, senators and MNAs of almost all the political parties requesting
QUETTA: Balochistan National Party (Mengal) staged a protest demonstration outside Quetta Press Club on Wednesday against the targeted killing of journalists and an alleged operation in Gomazi area of Turbat. The protestors were holding banners and placards in their hands inscribed with various slogans. Addressing the protestors, Agha Hassain Baloch, Akhter Hussein Langove, Ghulam Nabi Marri and others said that
Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) has condemned the attack and unlawful takeover of its member channel Pakistan Television Network’s Islamabad headquarters by protesters. The statement further appealed to all sides not to hinder or attack media and journalists who are performing their lawful duties. Business Recorder
The media threat matrix in Pakistan is broad and diverse and multiple factors contribute to it but the most important aspect is related to professionalism, including the way of reporting, professional attitudes and mainly the threat perceptions of the media persons. This was stated in recently released research study ‘Media Safety in Pakistan’. The study is based on an extensive
ISLAMABAD: The journalists community and members of the human and civil society organizations on Monday underlined the need to work for rule of law and supremacy of the Constitution and urged the marchers not to attack the very foundation of democracy to achieve their undemocratic political agenda. They expressed these views at the “Pro-democracy” camp set up in front of
ISLAMABAD: The mob that stormed the headquarters of Pakistan Television (PTV) was uncannily familiar with the inner workings of a TV station and made a bee-line for the station’s Master Control Room (MCR) – the nerve centre of the network’s broadcast uplink facility. They were also surprisingly familiar with the locations of key offices and the central newsroom and news
ISLAMABAD: A mob of protesters from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s (PAT) sit-ins stormed the headquarters of Pakistan Television (PTV) and forced its staff to take two of the state broadcaster’s flagship channels — PTV News and PTV World — off the air, on Monday morning. According to eyewitnesses, nearly 400 PTI and PAT workers stormed the
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