ISLAMABAD: Justice Mian Saqib Nisar of Supreme Court Monday said the judiciary also respected the media but it should not be maligned as it was also one of the pillars of the state. The observation came during the hearing of a suo moto case against the management of a private news channel for airing false […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of Uganda welcomed the charges brought against the former police commander of Kampala District, Joram Mwesigye for assaulting a Wavah Broadcasting Services (WBS) TV journalist, Andrew Lwanga. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Uganda to serve […]
Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (Pemra), the broadcast media regulatory body, has suspended and imposed fines on two television channels and fined another channel for slandering the superior judiciary of Pakistan. Pemra had issued show cause notices to Neo News, Din News and Sach TV on November 19, 2016 and asked to submit […]
ISLAMABAD: PEMRA on Saturday suspended licences of Din News and Neo TV and fined them Rs1 million each for leveling baseless allegations against a Supreme Court judge. Similarly, Sach TV has also been fined Rs1 million for airing remarks of caller Ali Nawaz. The three TV channels were issued notices on November 19 for airing irresponsible […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Fernando Zavala Lombardi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Peru expressed concern over the murder of radio presenter during the broadcast in Camana, in the southern region of Arequipa, Peru. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the Peruvian government to identified the perpetrator […]
It has been nine years of the murder of Zubair Ahmed Mujahid, reporter and bureau chief of daily Jang Urdu language newspaper in Mirpurkhas, Sindh province of Pakistan and his case has not yet been submitted in any court by the police. In fact, it is being pending in Crime Branch Hyderabad. The family of […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of South Sudan expressed concern over the closure of Eye Radio station by the South Sudan National Security Service (NSS) without giving reason. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of South Sudan to order to put a […]
