IT is well known that for those in the media business, Pakistan is a country full of occupational hazards. Here journalists are ‘advised’, threatened or even killed by a variety of actors if they refuse to toe the line. The attack on media workers in Islamabad on Sunday appears to be part of this pattern […]

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ALIPUR: MNA Jamshed Dasti has said he respects the services rendered by Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman in the field of journalism.Talking to journalists at the daily Jang office here on Sunday, he condemned the propaganda launched against the Jang/Geo Group. He said he valued daily Jang Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman’s services for the cause of journalism. He said […]

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By: Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: Five media personnel, two of them from DawnNews, were injured and their digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) vans were damaged when two men on a motorcycle hurled crackers at them at the Faizabad interchange here on Sunday night. SSP Islamabad Asmatullah Junego said the target was the DSNG of DawnNews. No-one […]

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TOKYO: The efforts for independence of media in Pakistan will be impeded as a result of the verdict of a court in the country against editor-in-chief of the Jang Group and the most viewed, popular TV channel Geo News. The International Union of Journalists at Japan International Press Club stated this in its announcement here […]

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