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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Tuesday July03, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Damage
City govt attacks Khabrain Karachi |
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City District Government officials with the help of bulldozers demolished reception and parking arena of the Khabrain Group Karachi offices, completely destroying the communication system here on late Sunday night. According to details, Nazim Jamshed Town Javed Akhtar accompanied by dozens of armed men forced their entry into Khabrain Group offices situated adjacent to Karachi Administration Society office in Mehmoodabad and took the entire staff hostage. In the meanwhile, CDG staff with the help of bulldozers and other heavy equipment demolished the main gate, reception and parking area of the office while police that was present about 200 yards away from the office remained silent spectator. Two cars and four motorbikes parked in the parking area were badly damaged by the action. Consequently, work of all the four newspapers of the group - Khabrain, The Post, Sindhi daily Khabroon and Nia Akhbar came to a halt. When contacted, Sindh Interior Adviser Waseem Akhtar switched off his cell phone.
City Nazim, when contacted, replied that he could not stop the action on telephone, and asked for talking to the owners of the newspaper. However, he also later switched off his cell phone. Later, Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani contacted Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad and informed him about the incident. Following it, the staff busy in demolition stopped the action. Ebad later also expressed his sympathies with Khabrain Group on telephone.
(Khabrian-1)
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Fb_ShortNewsT.aspx?fbshortid=2056&fcatid=14&fstatus=Current&bcatid=14&bstatus=Current |
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Media Protest
Violence against journalists slammed |
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Speakers at a convention on Monday criticized the government for violence against media personnel. Political party leaders and journalists attended the convention, which had been arranged by the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) at the Peshawar Press Club to condemn attacks on journalists and non-implementation of the 7th wage board award. In his speech, Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) President Huma Ali Shah said the Frontier province was the most dangerous zone for journalists, and that General Musharraf was erring by considering media owners journalists. “The number of journalists killed in Musharraf’s rule is more than that in General Zia’s rule,” he said adding that the inquiry report on Hayatullah’s murder was yet to be published. He said the press freedom index ranking of Pakistan was 157 among 168 nations. PML-N NWFP President Pir Sabir Shah said, “The press is the voice of politicians and the public and its freedom is in fact the nation’s freedom. But the press is presently in chains.”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\03\story_3-7-2007_pg7_10
http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNewsT.aspx?dtlid=105482&catid=2
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Media Workshop
Weeklong media workshop begins at PU |
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A weeklong media workshop began on Monday at the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) of the Punjab University with the collaboration of a German broadcaster DW Radio. PU’s acting vice chancellor (VC) Dr Muhammad Arif Butt said in his inaugural address that radio was an effective means of communication in the societies with low literacy rate like Pakistan. “This joint effort between the DW Radio and the ICS will be a unique experience from media learning point of view,” said Dr Arif. ICS Dirctor Dr Mugheesuddin Sheikh said the workshop would be a healthy experience and would help the media students improve their creative and technical skills. Later, Dr Arif Butt offered a bouquet to Peter Hulian, senior broadcaster and trainer of DW Radio. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\03\story_3-7-2007_pg7_30 |
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Media Miscellaneous
Opp leaders condemn attack on Khabrain office |
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Opposition leaders strongly condemning the attack on Khabrain Group of Newspapers offices in Karachi said that it is the responsibility of the government to provide protection to the media but it instead of providing protection is using coercive tactics to silence the media from reporting the truth. PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim while condemning the attack at Khabrian group offices in Karachi has said that it shows that government was unnerved and these steps have exposed the government claims of free media. He termed it a terrorist act on part of the City Government Karachi.
(Khabrian-1)
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Fb_ShortNewsT.aspx?fbshortid=2056&fcatid=14&fstatus=Current&bcatid=14&bstatus=Current |
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Development budget and the right to information by Mukhtar Ahmed Ali & Zahid Abdullah |
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“Unfortunately, this year again, parliamentarians have shown little interest in exercising their right to information, which is quite evident in the way the budget session has been conducted and the way the budget has been passed without any qualitative debate. Therefore, it is all the more important that the civil society remains vigilant right from the beginning of the financial year in order to ensure that the allocated amounts for development are actually spent this time around.”
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=62897 |
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PU, FJWU to strengthen academic ties |
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University of Peshawar’s Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Haroon Rashid has urged the students to concentrate on research to be able to compete for jobs. The university’s department of journalism and mass communication would soon establish its own television studios, he said. Talking to the vice-chancellor of the Fatima Jinnah Women’s University (FJWU), Rawalpindi, Dr Saeeda Asadullah Khan, who called on him here on Monday, he said there was an urgent need for collaboration among universities to promote academic activities on modern lines.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/07/03/nat21.htm |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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