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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Thursday November 01, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Police raid journalist’s house |
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The journalist community Wednesday condemned the police raid at the house of a prominent journalist and anchorperson, Syed Farhat Abbas Shah, without any justification, calling it harassment of the community. According to Farhat, local police clad in plainclothes raided his house and abused and threatened his family.
Scores of journalists have demanded the government take to task the police officials responsible.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNewsT.aspx?dtlid=126317&catid=2 |
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Media Protest
PFUJ calls for reopening case: Journalist’s murder |
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The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has expressed concern over the “closure” of the murder inquiry of senior journalist, Mohammad Ismail Malik, who was killed on Nov 1, 2006 by unidentified assailants, in Islamabad, and demanded the arrest of the killers. Malik’s death anniversary is being observed on Thursday (today). PFUJ, in a statement, paid tribute to Malik’s services in the field of journalism and said while the government made tall claims of resolving high-profile cases, but it appeared that the murders of journalists did not fall in that “category.” That was perhaps was why none of the 21 murder cases of journalists, killed from October 1999 till October 2007, had been solved, it added. Malik was killed in a brutal manner and his body was found near his house a few hours after he went for a walk after dinner. “It may have been a close(d) case for the government, but for the journalist community it is still an open case,” the statement said. PFUJ appealed to media organisations, for which Malik and other murdered journalists used to work, to investigate the cases of their murdered employees and expose the failure of the authorities in their newspapers and television channels. It was ironic that in February 2007, the government had given its commitment before a high-profile media delegation of the International Media Watchdog, comprising president of the International Federation of Journalists, president of the National Union of Journalists, UK, convener of the Free Media Movement, Sri Lanka and representative of the Paris-based RSF (Reporters Sans Frontieres/ Reporters Without Borders), but there has been no breakthrough in even a single murder case of any journalist. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/01/nat17.htm |
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Demo today |
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The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists would stage a protest demonstration against the capital administration, for not being able to arrest the killers of a senior journalist, outside the Press Club camp office at Melody on Thursday.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/01/nat17.htm |
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Media in Courts
SC turns to Punjab to identify culprits: Police violence on September 29 |
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Journalists, lawyers beaten like in war: CJ
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the advocate general of Punjab to collect evidence and initiate action against the Islamabad police officials for failing to do same against their subordinates who brutally beat up lawyers and journalists in the city on September 29. A bench of the court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, issued the directive during suo motu hearings into the incident. Islamabad’s deputy commissioner and two top police officials were suspended during the initial hearings for flouting the bench’s order to identify and punish the policemen involved in the ugly incident. The bench observed that the police excesses that day were intentional as there was no reason for heavy police deployment just to secure the Election Commission building where the violence took place. The chief justice also took exception to the fact that the police and the local administration were concealing the real culprits behind the incident. It was either the suspended deputy commissioner or the IG who are responsible for ordering the police to manhandle peaceful lawyers and journalists, the bench observed. Hearing the contempt case against the suspended Isla-mabad officials, the court directed the advocate general to collect details and frame charges against them. Law enforcement agencies’ use of force against the lawyers, journalists and rights activists on September 29 had aroused the ire of the Supreme Court for its brutality. Their fault was that they wanted to witness the scrutiny of the nomination papers filed by the presidential candidates in the Election Commission office but police would not allow that. Over 70 lawyers, journalists and civil society members were injured in the violence that followed.
(News-12) |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/01/nat11.htm |
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Media Awards
Workshop held |
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The USAID organized a one day workshop for capacity building of parliamentary journalists at assembly premises here on Wednesday. It was addressed by former secretary national assembly Khan Mohammad Goria and Zaigham Khan of USAID.
(Nation-3)
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Safe Motherhood award | 11 million neonates die every year in Pakistan |
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Pakistan to cut maternal mortality by three quarters to meet MDG target | Midwives outdo doctors with 62pc deliveries | 23pc children die of asphyxia, 27pc of pre-mature births, 36% of infections & 20-30pc of low birth weight
Provincial Health Minister Chaudhry M Iqbal Wednesday said the government has mapped out a string of measures including provision of incentives to doctors to work in villages and remote areas to help boost the health sector.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/CityNewsT.aspx?dtlid=126266&catid=3 |
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Training workshop for journalists |
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Arnold “skip” lsaacs, international trainer and free lance journalist has said that news media play a crucial role, telling voters what they need to know to make an informed choice. He conducted a workshop for journalists “investigative journalisms and election reporting” in Peshawar.
(Nation-20)
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Media Miscellaneous
PPP turning its empty guns on the media |
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Previously there were some members of the government and those representing the presidential camp, attacking a set of journalists and dubbing them as “negative” and “destructive” particularly during the judicial crisis. Now it is the Pakistan People’s Party’s turn to do the same.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=10941 |
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Journalists urged to help end child labour |
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A daylong media workshop on 'Activating Media to Combat Worst Forms of Child Labour' was held Wednesday by International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to sensitise media managers about highlighting child labour issues through their programmes and writings. Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Ghulam Sarwar Khan, the chief guest, said, while addressing the ceremony, the government was pursuing a policy of multi-pronged approach focusing on legislative development, administration measure and direct interventions to eliminate child labour.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/ShortNewsT.aspx?shortid=4750&catid=2 |
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Senator takes personal interest in newspaper workers housing scheme |
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Senator Tahira Latif assured newspapers workers to take personal interest in their demand for housing scheme. She termed workers integral part of media industry. She was addressing a delegation of newspaper workers organization.
(Post-A4)
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Advertising
Billboards be powered off by 9pm’ |
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The Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) on Wednesday decided to re-launch conservation campaign, which according to its calculation could save up to 700MW if the district governments and public cooperate with it. The new campaign will be a stick and carrot drive, with heavy content of persuasion. As per the new guidelines issued to the distribution companies, all billboards in their respective areas will be switched off by 9pm. According to the directions, if a billboard owner refuses to cooperate in the drive, he will risk power cut off permanently. Even power supply to a particular locality can be cut if the owners fail to switch off extravagant lights. The company has also decided alternate power supply to steel furnaces. They could even be denied power supply during the peak hours, if need be. Agriculture tube wells, enjoying a subsidy of Rs0.75 per unit from 10pm to 6am, will also be forced to shut their operation during this time. The proponents of the conservation drive maintain the company will be able to save up to 250MW on account of billboards. They says the billboards consume over 500MW in the entire country and if the authority is able to save even half of energy, it will be saving 250MW on this head alone. Similarly, they say, the streetlights guzzle another 582MW in the country and by switching off alternate streetlights, the company can save another 275MW. The total tally from these two heads goes up to 525MW. Besides, if markets pull their shutters down by 8pm as per official requirement, the company will be able to save another 300MW, they say. They are of the view if all these steps are taken the company may not have to resort to loadshedding this year at least. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/01/nat46.htm |
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Arts
Arts Council poll on Dec 12 |
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Elections for the office-bearers of the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, will be held on December 16, according to a spokesman for the council. The decision was taken at a meeting of the council’s governing body chaired by Saifur Rehman Grami, a senior member, on Tuesday, the spokesman said on Wednesday. He said that before the election, the general body would hold a session in which the council’s honorary secretary would present the annual report. The meeting also condoled the death of its members during this year, the spokesman said. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/01/local17.htm |
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Obituary
Journalist Ishrat-un-Nisa of Pakistan Times dies |
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MS Ishrat-un-Nisa, former commerce editor of Pakistan Times, died Tuesday night at her brother’s residence at 174-B, Garden Block, Garden Town. She was laid to rest Wednesday at the Garden Town Graveyard. Family members, senior journalists and relatives participated in the funeral.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=78255 |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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