Sunday September 03, 2006

Dangerous for Pakistani Journalists

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/09/060903_
cpj_investigation_na.shtml

Body set up to block websites

The government on Saturday set up a committee to streamline mechanism for screening and blocking websites offering objectionable contents. “This is the first-ever focused attempt by the government to block offensive websites, warranted because of growing concern among people about indecent content,” a senior government official said. Constituted by the Ministry of Information Technology, its Secretary Farrukh Qayyum would preside over the body to examine contents of websites reported or found to be offensive or containing anti-state material. Representatives of ministries of interior, cabinet, information and broadcasting and security agencies would be part of the body that would operate within the parametres set out in the Amended Telecom Act 2006.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/03/nat3.htm

Committee to check offensive websites

The Information Technology Ministry has constituted a committee to streamline the procedure for screening and blocking websites containing objectionable material.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\09\03\
story_3-9-2006_pg1_6

Body formed for screening websites

The Ministry of IT and Telecom has constituted a committee to streamline the mechanism for screening and blocking websites offering objectionable content. “The committee, headed by the secretary of the ministry, will examine the content of websites reported or found to be offensive and containing anti-state material,” said a ministry statement issued on Saturday.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_default.asp

Four video shops' owners jailed for selling anti-Shia CDs

An anti terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday sent the owners of four video shops to jail after charging them with selling CDs and cassettes containing anti-Shia speeches by leaders of the banned group Sipah-e-Sahaba.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\09\03\
story_3-9-2006_pg7_5

Ex-CJ urges journalists to ferret out injustices

Justice (retd) Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, has termed the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti an extra-judicial killing and said that justice was not done by the federation. He vented his anger while speaking as the chief guest at the oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected office-bearers of Karachi University Journalism Alumni Association (KUJA) at the Karachi Press Club, on Saturday.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4

Orakzai assures tribal journalists of protection

The NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (retd) Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai has assured the tribal journalists of full protection and security while discharging professional duties in tribal areas.  Talking to a delegation of Tribal Union of Journalists, which called on him at the Governor House here on Saturday, he said journalists are free to travel in Fata but they must coordinate their visits with the local administration to get proper security and protection.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=7

Orakzai assures protection to tribal journalists

NWFP Governor Lt Gen (r) Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai has assured tribal journalists of full protection and security while discharging professional duties in tribal areas saying, “journalists are free to travel in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) but they must coordinate their visits with the local administration to get proper security and protection.
http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_NatNews.aspx?dtlid=57163&
catid=2&date=09/03/2006&fcatid=14

LETTERS TO EDITOR:

Award refusal

Columnist Naseem Zehra's refusal to accept Sitara-e-Imtiaz "to protest the dreadful act of the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti" Is commendable. In her letter rejecting the "symbol of honour", she has called for the strengthening of civilian political forces believing in the rule of law and understanding the need to resolve Pakistan 's internal problems through consensus and conciliation.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=11

REGIONAL MEDIA:  

More media, less news

Newspapers are making progress with the internet, but most are still too timid, defensive or high-minded

THE first thing to greet a visitor to the Oslo headquarters of Schibsted, a Norwegian newspaper firm, is its original, hand-operated printing press from 1856, now so clean and polished it looks more like a sculpture than a machine.

http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7827135

More:

“Columns of janil-ud-din Aali ‘ Kar ga-h-Watan' published”, Daily Jang, Page-8

“FATA is secure for journalists: Governor NWFP”, Daily Aaj Peshawar

SOURCES:

The News: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/

The Nation: http://www.nation.com.pk/

Daily Times: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/

The Dawn: http://www.dawn.com

Spider: www.spider.tm

BBC South Asia : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/

Herald: http://dawn.com/herald/

Aurora : www.aurora@dawn.com

The Economist: www.economist.com

IFEX: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/158/

Jang: http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/

Nawa-i-waqt: http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk

Khabrain: http://www.khabrain.com

Daily Development News: http://asp.isb.sdnpk.org/

The Post: http://www.thepost.com.pk/

Business Recorder: http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org

Asia Media: www.asiamedia.ucla.edu

PEMRA: www.pemra.gov.pk

States Man: http://www.statesman.com.pk

Frontier Post: www. frontierpost .com.pk

Compiled by , Sajid Gondal Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan .

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