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Monday September
04, 2006
Jalil calls for sign language on TV
Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil stressed Sunday the need for telecasting programmes in sign language. She said this while speaking at a ceremony for arranging weddings for the speech- and hearing-impaired organized by the Pakistan Association of the Deaf. Jalil said that the CDGK was running five centers for special children.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\09\04\story_4-9-2006_pg12_10
Blasphemous websites
The Awami Himayat Tehrik announced on Sunday that the tehrik would continue its protest drive against the blasphemous cartoons. Speaking to party workers on Sunday, Moulvi Iqbal Haider warned that AHT activists would initiate a protest sit-in if the committee constituted by the government to monitor objectionable websites failed to block and jam such websites showing blasphemous cartoons of Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him).
http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/04/local20.htm
LETTERS TO EDITOR:
Freedom of information
Reference ‘Hezbollah TV case fuels debate in US' (Dawn, Aug 28). It is highly regrettable that in the land of freedom and democracy that America is supposed to be, Pakistani-American businessman Javed Iqbal should be stopped from using his first amendment right of freedom of expression.
http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/04/letted.htm#6
REGIONAL MEDIA:
Fascism' and the right-wing press
By Jim Lobe
The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W. Bush to depict US foes in the Middle East as “fascists” and its domestic critics as “appeasers” owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=22636 s
BANGLADESH : Japan news agency ordered to pay Bangladeshi for false Qaeda report
Tokyo --- A Japanese court yesterday ordered a leading domestic news agency to compensate a Bangladeshi man for falsely linking him to the al-Qaeda extremist network. Kyodo News issued reports from May to June 2004 that Tokyo-based Bangladeshi businessman Islam Mohamed Himu, now 35, had told police he had close ties with a senior al-Qaeda member, according to the ruling.
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=52114
More:
“CPJ concerned over killing of Journalist's brother”, The News, page-15
“Journalism in a shrinking world: South Asian Journalist Association held its latest convention in New York to discuss the importance of blogs in the reporting world”, Spider, Page-39
“NEWS BYTES: Pakistan 's web ban”, Spider, Page-19
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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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