BAGHDAD : Iraq has suspended the licences of 10 satellite TV channels for promoting "sectarianism", the country's media regulator said on Sunday, after five days of violence killed more than 215 people.The bloody unrest, which began on Tuesday with deadly clashes between security forces and Sunni ...

QUETTA - Baloch National Front (BNF), an alliance of different Baloch nationalist parties, has announced to continue the boycott of all Urdu news channels and some daily newspapers in Balochistan for allegedly ‘promoting the state agenda and distorting the Baloch national struggle’.This ...

LAHORE - The Farmer Organisations (FOs) constituted by the Punjab Irrigation & Drainage Authority (PIDA) have completed the desilting of 682 mile long 122 water channels in the province for providing better water supply to the farmers, spokesman of PIDA claimed on Thursday. According to ...

QUETTA - On the call of Baloch Student Organisation-Muhiud Din and Balochistan National Party-Mengal, cable operators suspended transmission of Urdu news channels across the province.Earlier, the BSO-M and BNP had threatened to suspend transmissions of Urdu private channels from February 1 ...

Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has served a last warning to all cable TV operators of country asking them to immediately stop distributing TV channels which are otherwise illegal or proscribed by the Authority.“No channel other than PEMRA licensee would be let ...

CALIFORNIA (AFP) - YouTube on Thursday unveiled a major redesign that showcases television-style channels and promises slicker integration with other Google online properties. "We are trying hard to marry the best of TV and the best of online," YouTube vice president of product development Shishir ...

KARACHI - Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and the cable operators to restore the telecast of a private TV channel, while the court summoned the respondents to submit their comments in the next hearing. A SHC bench headed by the Chief Justice ...

ISLAMABAD - Dr Shahid Masood, a journalist, Thursday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the closure of transmission of some private TV channels. The petition has been filed under the Article 184 (3) of the Constitution with respect to the enforcement of fundamental rights as guaranteed ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - In Occupied Kashmir, the Indian authorities have directed the cable operators of Jammu district to stop telecast of 12 channels, 11 being run from Pakistan and one from Dubai, within two days. According to report of Kashmir Media Service (KMS) notice to stop telecast of 12 ...

LAHORE- Punjab government is eager to explore opportunities to tap into Metros global distribution channels to provide produce from Punjab an access to foreign markets. This was maintained by consultant to Chief Minister Punjab on Economic Affairs and Vice Chairman Punjab Board of Investment and ...

ISLAMABAD - Journalists of the federal capital took to the streets on Saturday and protested against the closure of some private TV channels' transmission by the government in the backdrop of lawyer's upcoming long march. They staged protest demonstration in front of the National Press Club. Civil ...

FIRST Lady Michelle Obama channels the cool grace and glamour of Jackie Kennedy Onassis in her first official White House portrait. In the picture, released today, Mrs Obama wears an elegant black, sleeveless dress - designed by New York designer Michael Kors - and a string of white pearls. The ...

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to bring a shift in current American policy for Pakistan, Islamabad has decided to activate its diplomatic channels to reach out to newly elected US President Barack Obama even before his taking oath of the office in January 2009. "Pakistan Embassy in Washington and other ...