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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Tuesday August 07, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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ATTACK ON MEDIA
Killing
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Suprem Court took sue mot action of Munir Sangi’s murder, a camera man of private TV channel in Larkana . an Application was filed by the widow of the Munir Sangi. She requested to the Chief Justice for arrest of his husband murderers.
Jang (Page 3)
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Intimidation
Missing man surfaces |
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The missing managing director of the proposed Balochi TV channel, “Baloch Voice”, Munir Ahmed Mengal, has surfaced after more than a year. According to family sources, Munir was found on the RCD Highway, near Kalat, on Sunday evening but local police immediately arrested him and detained him in the Khuzdar jail under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance.
He had been arrested at the Karachi Airport on his return from Bahrain last year but his whereabouts could not be known for months.
After he went missing, his family members, journalist organisations, party workers and other organisations strongly protested and observed hunger strike in Karachi, Quetta and Islamabad.
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http://dawn.com.pk/2007/08/07/nat3.htm |
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MEDIA MISCELLANEOUS
Regularisation of PTV employees demanded |
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The managing committee of All PTV Employees and Workers Union on Monday called for regularization of services of daily wages and contract employees of the PTV including resource persons.
The managing committee of the union which met here with Mohammad Rashid, senior vice president of the union urged president general Pervez Musharraf and prime minister Shaukat Aziz to immediately regularize the services of daily wages and contract employees of the corporation. |
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http://dawn.com.pk/2007/08/07/nat17.htm |
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Nine TV channels illegally advertising health remedies |
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The National Assembly was told on Monday that a list of 9 private TV channels advertising health remedies with tall claims was brought to the notice of PEMRA to take action on case to case basis. Secretary Health and Chairman PEMRA held a meeting in this regard to curb this ongoing practice on TV channels.
Health Minister Nasir Khan in reply to a question of Nayyer Sultana during Question Hour said that letters have been issued to provincial headquarters and federal inspectors and they have been asked to submit regularly monthly report to identify such cases so that action could be initiated on case to case basis.
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http://nation.com.pk/daily/aug-2007/7/index14.php |
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Call to stop attacks on CD shops |
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The Telefilm Makers Association has urged the local Taliban to stop attacking CD shops in the province and said that people in the business were not involved in any anti-Islam activity.
“We too are Muslims and they (Taliban) need to understand that this is our business. We make films on social issues that are watched by families. Businessmen have been in constant fear because of recent bomb attacks on CD shops,” Sher Dil Khan, president of the association, said.
He invited militants to watch the telefilms before deciding to bomb their shops.
An estimated 50 CD shops have come under attacks recently in Tank, Swat, Mardan, Peshawar, Kohat and other districts of the province.
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http://dawn.com.pk/2007/08/07/nat24.htm |
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OBITUARY
Aziz Mazhar passes away |
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Veteran journalist Aziz Mazhar died of a cardiac arrest here on Monday morning. He was 79. Family said Mr Mazhar, who had been fighting against heart and respiratory ailments for the last couple of years, complained about pain in chest at around 11:30am. He was taken to a nearby clinic where he breathed his last. He is survived by four sons and as many daughters.
His funeral prayers were offered near his residence at 415-Jahanzeb Block of Allama Iqbal Town, and he was laid to rest in the Karim Block graveyard in the evening in the presence of hundreds of people belonging to all walks of life.
(Dawn)
(The Post)
(The Jang) (Nawa-i-Waqat) (Khabrian)
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CINEMA
Curtain falls on Kasur cinemas |
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At Partition, there stood four cinemas in the Kasur city to spice up the lives of people of the city. The city was relatively smaller than that of the today’s Kasur. Today there is no cinema in the city and the remains of last Naz Cinema at Baldia Chowk await demolition.
When Pakistan was born in 1947, there were Majestic Cinema, Habib Mahal Cinema, Noor Mehal Cinema and Naz Cinema in the city.
Veteran cinegoers told Dawn that every show in those cinemas would go full in the 50s. Viewing popularity of films, these cinemas were constructed along modern lines in the early 60s. Those were the days when cine buffs would buy tickets in black. |
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http://dawn.com.pk/2007/08/07/nat26.htm |
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MOVIES |
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LHC Rejects petition against film “Khuda Kaye Liaye”
Lahore High Court rejects a petition to ban the exibiton of film “Khuda Kaye Liaye” in Pakistan. petition was filed by advocate M.D. Tahir. Petition was rejected on his first hearing.
Jang (Page 3)
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