NEW YORK - The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent watchdog body, has called on the incoming government of Pakistan, which is set to be headed by PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, to urgently address the issue of violence against the press by bringing perpetrators of past crimes to ...

WASHINGTONAn American news agency, The Associated Press, Monday sent a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder protesting the Justice Department's examination of AP phone records.The letter, sent by AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt called the examination of 20 telephone lines ...

ISLAMABAD - The World Press Freedom Day was observed in Pakistan on Friday which reminded people of many journalists who embraced martyrdom or faced jails for keeping aloft the banner of freedom.The World Press Freedom Day is annually observed on May 3 reminding that freedom of press and expression ...

ISLAMABAD -  Seven senior journalists have submitted applications to the Supreme Court to become party in the Information Ministry secret funds case.The applicants, in their pleas, took the stand that the report issued about the secret funds was false and based on mala fide intentions. They ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Azad Jammu and Kashmir Information Secretary Shoukat Majeed Mallick said on Monday that over Rs45 million had been released to the PID for onward disbursement of advertisement bills to national print media, pending against various AJK government and autonomous departments since past ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - The members and office-bearers of the Press Club condemned the character assassination of district deputy information director by a media group.According to details, one Tariq Ismail levelled indecent charges against the director. The press club president and members observed that ...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said journalists must take the national interest first and use their power for reformation of society instead of disrespecting mankind and spoiling cultures.Speaking at a conference related to security of journalists organized by Pakistan Federal Union of ...

ISLAMABAD - The media fraternity boycotted Senate’s Monday proceedings continuing their protest campaign calling for arrest of criminals involved in killing of hundreds of journalists in violence and targeted attacks, to ensure the rights of the working journalists.As the House initiated its ...

SIALKOT - On the special directive of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the district administration has prepared a feasibility report for acquiring as many as 170-kanals of land for the establishment of Journalists Colony near Eastern Bypass. DCO Zahid Saleem Gondal disclosed this while talking ...

LAHORE – The Rising Sun Education and Welfare Society (RSEW) arranged a visit for media delegation on Monday. RSEW Executive Director Dr Abdul Tawwab Khan and other members briefed the visitors about the objectives of the institute. The delegation witnessed the children getting rehabilitation ...

LAHORE – Aviation reporters of Lahore have protested on being ignored by PIA management for a tour to Saudi Arabia as the airline has, for second time, selected Karachi journalists for the tour.A meeting in this regard was held at Lahore Press Club on Wednesday. Participants of the meeting ...

MADRID (AFP) - Journalists at Spain’s top daily newspaper El Pais launched a three-day strike on Tuesday in protest at lay-offs that will cut its staff by a third, workers’ representatives said. Of the newspaper’s 390 journalists, just 28 - most of them senior editors - were ...

QUETTA - Dozens of journalists took out a rally and staged a demonstration on Monday against the murder of Khuzdar Press Club General Secretary Abdul Haq Zehri.Zehri was gunned down in Khuzdar two days ago. The protesting journalists marched through various roads of the city and staged a ...

KARACHI - Karachi Municipal Corporation Administrator Hussain Syed has said that problems of journalist community and their associations will be solved on priority basis.Visiting the under-construction APNS House in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, he assured all possible cooperation of KMC in the construction ...

AHMEDPUR EAST - The state actors have proved more inimical to journalists in South Punjab than other secret agencies. This was the crux of three-day Basic Journalism Training Workshop organised by the Rural Media Network Pakistan in collaboration with Unesco at Alipur, Muzaffargarh district.It was ...

ELLAH ABAD - The members of union of journalists, both from the print and electronic media, protested against the attack on the life of a senior reporter of a local news channel here the other day. According to the police, reporter of a local TV channel Mehar Abubakar was shot twice in the left ...

DAMASCUS - The opposition Syrian National Council accused the regime on Thursday of “liquidating” journalists in order to hush up what is happening in the country, a day after a French reporter was killed.The SNC’s accusation came as France demanded an investigation into the death ...

BAHAWALPUR - Press Club President Amin Basit and a number of local working journalists have expressed deep concern over the occupation of the Press Club building by a group. They said that the ongoing situation was very critical and any incident at any time could happen. They alleged that the local ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Journalist Panel has once again clinched annual elections of National Press Club (NPC) by defeating Muttahida Panel and scored double hat-trick. It was a clean sweep by the winner “Journalist Panel” as it won all 24 seats.The candidates of Journalist Panel and ...

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - An Ethiopian court on Tuesday sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in jail for supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally, after a trial criticised by rights groups. "The sentence should be punishment of 11 years imprisonment," Judge Shemsu Sirgaga told the ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - The Inquiry Commission on Abbottabad operation met here in Islamabad on Monday and recorded statements of journalists, analysts and anchorpersons on Monday.Senior anchorperson Hamid Mir, military analyst Ayesha Siddiqa and senior journalist Imtiaz Gul appeared before the ...

PESHAWAR - The Pakistani government has ordered hundreds of journalists in its militancy-hit tribal regions to stop receiving pay as public teachers. The recently-issued edict surfaced in a government letter sent to the Tribal Union of Journalists (Tuj), reported BBC on Wednesday. It asked them to ...

MULTAN - Strongly condemning students attack at Multan Press Club, the journalists staged a protest here on Thursday, demanding stern action against those involved in the rampage. On the other hand, two separate cases were registered by the Cantt and Alpa police against the students and two ...

Minister for Information Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that her ministry will facilitate the journalists in performance of their professional duties and she will personally ensure that hurdles in their professional duties are removed. This she said while addressing a dinner she hosted in honour of ...

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik is still into hot waters as Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probing Haj scam for the second time has issued notices to 427 politicians and journalists who performed free Haj during the years 2009 and 2010 on his invitation. FIA has also issued notice to ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A total of 7 journalists were killed while working in 2010, down from 76 last year, but kidnappings of reporters surged, media rights group Reporters Sans Borders said on Thursday. Reporters Sans Borders said the most dangerous country for journalists in the past year was ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Kinght-Wallace Fellowships at Michigan is offering fellowship for International full-time journalists, with a minimum five years professional experience, and whose work appears regularly as an employee or freelancer; Print, broadcast, photo, documentary and Internet ...

KARACHI The car of a senior sports journalist of a leading Urdu newspaper was allegedly vandalised by workers of an auto workshop located at Hockey Club of Pakistan here the other day on petty issue of parking the vehicle. The reporter Rashid Siddiqui went to the HCP on Wednesday evening to ...

PESHAWAR To promote culture and art of the province, a new organisation, Culture Journalists and Artiste Forum (CJAF), was formed here on Tuesday. The first meeting of the forum was held here at Peshawar Press Club. The participants were of the view that culture and art had suffered colossal ...

LAHORE - A rare occasion as it was and certainly for the first time in the parliamentary history of Pakistan, the Members of the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday unanimously launched a bitter diatribe against the media for more than three hours, and averred that as-perceived-by-them-unholy alliance of ...