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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Monday July 09, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Restriction
Journalists barred from Lal Masjid to attend Ghazi press conference |
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Lal Masjid deputy chief cleric Abdul Rasheed Ghazi invited reporters to a press conference in Lal Masjid on Sunday, but security forces refused entry to journalists and later, ARY Television reported, entered the Rawalpindi-Islamabad press club and harassed the journalists there. Ghazi had invited journalists for a press conference, pledging safe passage, but security forces believed it was a tactic to gain more hostages and thus did not allow reporters to enter the mosque. Ghazi was offered a telephonic press conference instead. Security personnel on Sunday evening accused journalists of violating curfew and told them they had been ordered to oust journalists from the danger zone, but an army major said it had been a misunderstanding, adding there were no orders to stop media coverage, the channel reported.
(News-9) (Express-1) (Jang-8)
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\09\story_9-7-2007_pg1_2 |
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Security officials try to seize Islamabad Press club |
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State security officials Sunday allegedly misbehaved with journalists in an attempt to seize islamabad press club near melody chowk. Unidentified security personnel busted the press club, allegedly harassed media persons, tried to snatch their electronic equipments and threatened journalists to vacate building immediately and arrested and electrician of press club. When contacted on telephone, Federal Information Minister assured that government would take serious action against concerned persons. President press club Mushtaq Minhas and Secretary General Afzal Butt condemned the action and termed it an attack on media freedom. They warned of possible protest if the government failed to protect rights.
(News-9) (Nation-1) (Express-1)
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Security officials restrict media |
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State security officials Sunday allegedly misbehaved with journalists and restricted journalists to perform their professional duties without any reasons. They refused to accept cards issued by Press Information Department. Journalists were barred to reach the camp set up for media. Journalists protested against it. Officials gave clearance after confirmation from lists provided by PID. Journalists were allowed to walk to the camp.
(Express-1)
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DCO Chitral barred journalists to cover Shundor festival |
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District Coordination Officer barred journalists from covering the Shundor festival. These journalists were sent by Ministry of Tourism for the coverage of the festival. Journalists were not provided accommodation. Journalists protested against misbehavior. DCO rejected the PTDC request to provide accommodation to journalists. PTDC had to arrange residence in emergency. Journalists had asked Minister for Tourism to take notice of the misconduct of DCO.
(Khabrian-8)
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Media Protest
KUJ condemns govt over browbeating media |
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The Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) has strongly condemned the military authorities’ action to gag the media covering the Lal Masjid stand off in Islamabad and closing the Islamabad premises of the press club. President of the KUJ Shamim-ur-Rahman, in a statement, deplored the government over preventing correspondents and crew members of AAJ TV and ARY One World from covering the evolving situation. He also condemned the threats hurled at the President of the Islamabad Press Club Mushtaq Minhas and other members. The KUJ demanded of the government to immediately lift the siege of the journalists and media teams and not to prevent them from functioning normally. Any harm to the media men would be treated as a deliberate and premeditated threat to the life of the media men. The KUJ also appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo moto notice of the situation.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4 |
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Media Miscellaneous
Media centre in covered market |
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Government has set up a media centre in Covered Market vicinity. It would help to over come problems faced by journalists. Information Department has issued special cards to media persons for coverage of Lal mosque carnage. At media point in covered market, special food arrangements have been made for journalists. This arrangement was made in coordination with Rawalpindi/Islamabad press club secretary. Anyhow media men would not be allowed to go onward.
(Jang-8)
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Exchange of words between IGP and journalists |
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In the ceremony organized to hand over Lal mosque students to their parents, Journalists had to wait for six hours for proceedings of the ceremony. When journalists informed the situation to State Information about long stay, he showed his surprise. Inspector General Police said to journalists that a vast ground had been given to them; there should not be any issue. A Journalist replied, “Administration could not control mosque but journalists were being kept under control.” Inspector General Police did not respond the comment.
(Express-3)
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‘Allow media, ulema to visit Lal Masjid’ |
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Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) MNAs Muhammad Hassan Mehnati and Laeeq Ahmed demanded Sunday the government allow the media and ulema visit Lal Masjid to help defuse the ongoing standoff and save the lives of hundreds of innocent boys and girls. Mufti Naeem also asked government to allow media to enter mosque.
(Express-3)
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\09\story_9-7-2007_pg12_7 |
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Lettet to Editor “Role of the media” |
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Ehsan Anwaar comments, “The president should also give it a thought that if almost every analyst and intellectual around a dozen media channels and innumerable newspapers are criticising the government and its policies, instead of something being wrong with the media, there must be something wrong with the policies. If the government still doubts the role of the media, it should talk to ordinary Pakistanis, because it will surely find out that probably for the first time in the country’s history the media is playing a positive role. Also ask the common person what he/she wants to see and they will say that they want to see exactly what the media is showing. It is another thing that the government has now finally succeeded in reining in the media by pressurising the owners of the media channels and by blackmailing the cable operators (although it denied the latter charge publicly). And in the end I would like to put another record straight. It is not because of the liberal policies of the president that so many electronic channels have cropped up. The broadcasting of leading channels actually started abroad, mostly in Dubai and England, and since the government could not do anything about them it started taking the credit of freeing the media and allowed some local channels as well.”
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=11 |
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Theater
Booked for reporting a crime? |
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In a recent event, Nasir Sheikh was detained because he and his wife, who were running a theater group for special and disabled children, had had the audacity to expose those behind his kidnapping. According to Sakeena Nasir, producer of her own theater group, her husband Nasir Sheikh was facing false charges on the behest of some influential persons because he revealed the identity of those who had kidnapped him in 2005. The story was bought forward when his wife submitted an application to move the Supreme Court against the detention of her husband, Nasir. Nasir and his brother-in-law, Muhammad Irtiza Khan were kidnapped by some people and kept in an illegal confinement in 2005 for a huge ransom. However, the kidnappers were compensated by being given an apartment and some other valuables. Later on, the couple exposed the details of the kidnappers and thereby the kidnappers, using their influence, had retaliated by indicting the two, Nasir and Irtiza, in cases of murder, suicide and owning weaponry. The two are now being detained, once again, at the Central Prison.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4 |
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Books
First book on Naats in English launched |
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The launch of the first ever book on Naat-e-Rasool-e-Maqbool in the English language titled 'The Fragrance of Madina' was held at Lahore Press Club Sunday. The book has been written by eminent scholar Prof Dr Abdul Majid Hameed Masharqi and its theme is based upon the Quranic verses and the Hedith. Dr Mashraqi already has 10 religious and literary books to his credit.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_CityNews.aspx?dtlid=106390&catid=3&date=07/09/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Copyrights
Plagiarism cases make environment tense |
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Uneasiness reigns high among the students and teachers of the University of Arid Agriculture (UAA) after a case of plagiarism cropped up in its department of soil sciences and water sciences conversation dawn has learnt. The university syndicate in its meeting in June punished Associate Professor Dr.Azhar Naeem of said department and Associate Professor Dr.Sher Mohammad of UAA’s Khushab campus by declaring them ineligible for promotion two years.
(Dawn-14)
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