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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Thursday December 07, 2006
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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APNS seeks implementation of decisions |
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The prime minister has directed the Information Ministry to expeditiously finalise their recommendations to solve the problems faced by the print media, stated a spokesman for the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS). Kazi Asad Abid, Secretary General, APNS has announced that on December 04, 2006 at Islamabad, Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan, received a delegation of the APNS headed by Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman, President of the Society. The delegation apprised the prime minister of problems faced by newspapers and periodicals. The president, APNS invited the attention of the prime minister that in the last meeting held on May 27, 2006 several decisions were taken by the prime minister but so far, the decisions have not been implemented. |
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=34687 |
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PM orders alleviation of print media problems |
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The Prime Minister has directed the Information Ministry to finalise recommendations to solve the problems facing the print media, an APNS spokesman said. Kazi Asad Abid, Secretary General APNS, said that PM Shaukat Aziz received a delegation of the APNS, headed by its president Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman, on December 4 in Islamabad. The delegation apprised the PM of the problems facing newspapers and periodicals. The APNS president told the PM that in the last meeting held on May 27, 2006 several decisions were taken by the Prime Minister himself but so far those have not been implemented. He pointed out that since 2002, the agenda to amend and improve press laws, especially the Freedom of Information Ordinance and the Defamation Ordinance, has not been accomplished. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNews.aspx?dtlid=71945&catid=2 |
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Print media’s problems discussed |
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Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has directed the information ministry to finalise recommendations for the solution of problems faced by the print media, a spokesman for the All Pakistan Newspapers Society said on Wednesday. APNS Secretary-General Kazi Asad Abid said an APNS delegation called on the prime minister in Islamabad on Dec 4 and briefed him on the problems faced by the print media. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/12/07/nat9.htm |
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DT journalist assaulted in Khyber Agency |
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A senior tribal journalist was beaten up on Saturday by members of an armed group that had also kidnapped him two years ago. Qazi Rauf, Daily Times correspondent in Khyber Agency, said he would have been seriously injured had the police not intervened. The journalist was in Hayatabad Medical Complex to report the death of the group’s leader, Muhammad Lal, whose body had been brought there for autopsy after he was killed in a clash with a rival group in Bara. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\12\07\story_7-12-2006_pg7_4 |
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Fata journalists complain of harassment |
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Newsmen from tribal areas on Wednesday narrated harrowing incidents of intimidation at the hands of political authorities and militants now holding sway in the region. They claimed that they had been harassed and even restricted from performing their duties by rival groups, adding that several of them had been compelled to leave the region. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/12/07/nat11.htm |
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Daniel Pearl film to premiere at Kara festival |
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A movie based on the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl will premiere at a film festival in the Pakistani city where he was abducted nearly five years ago, organisers said Wednesday. “Infinite Justice”, by British-Pakistani filmmaker Jamil Dehlavi, is the star attraction at the Sixth KaraFilm Festival in the southern port city of Karachi, which runs from December 7. “This is the first time a film on Pearl will be screened in Pakistan,” festival organiser Hasan Zaidi told AFP. |
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/dec-2006/7/nationalnews8.php |
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Woman press photographer passes away |
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One of the first women press photographers in Pakistan, Mrs Rasheeda Afghan, passed away on Wednesday after a four-day illness. She was 58. She was laid to rest in Mewashah graveyard on Wednesday evening. She left behind a son, who is presently in London, and two daughters. A member of the Pakistan Association of Press Photographers, Rasheeda Afghan had been in the profession for the last 38 years as a freelance press photographer. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/12/07/local31.htm |
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LETTERS TO EDITOR |
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Critical appreciation
Sir: Recently there has been a spate of stories and letters to editors against PEMRA for banning Sindh TV. One news story in a leading English daily projected a foreign NGO that arranged a seminar against PEMRA and accused it of furthering the political ambitions of the government. It was amazing to read how a foreign NGO with the core mandate to highlight gender, poverty and issues such as HIV had shifted its focus towards the media. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\12\07\story_7-12-2006_pg3_6 |
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Nine local TV assembling units close down: Influx of cheaper sets |
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While the production of electronic consumers’ durables showed a robust growth during the last four years – TV makers portray a grim business scenario for the current fiscal. This is due to the continuous erosion of their market share by the influx of cheap TV sets into the local market that has led to closure of nine manufacturing units out of 15 in Sindh and Punjab during the last one year. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/12/07/ebr2.htm |
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Tribal journalists highlight their problems in Safma |
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The South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) hosted a meeting here Wednesday to understand the problems and challenges facing journalists working in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA0. The journalists from all seven Fata agencies and Frontier Regions attended the meeting….
The News, Page-10, National
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