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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Thursday August 09, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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ATTACK ON MEDIA
Killing
Photographer crushed by speeding bus |
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A photographer of an Urdu daily was crushed to death on Wednesday. Hamid Ali, 25, was crushed to death by a speeding bus in Al-Asif area. The police said that the deceased was moving towards his house on his motorcycle when a speeding bus of route D-7 crushed him under its wheel. The driver of the bus managed to escape from the spot. The police impounded the bus bearing registration no JE-5682 and registered a case. |
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http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=67627 |
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MEDIA MISCELLANEOUS
Steps being taken to strengthen media: Durrani |
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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani Wednesday said that the diversified media has helped establish a better system of social justice and check and balance in the civil society.
“The rapid growth of electronic and print media is the credit of the PML government.
The vibrant media is helping develop a better social justice and check-and-balance system in the civil society.
(The Nation)
(Daily Times)
(The Post)
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RSF demands Baloch TV station director’s freedom |
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Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontières, or RSF) reiterated its call for the release of Munir Mengal, the head of the Baloch Voice TV station, who was arrested by police in Qalat upon his release from an alleged 16-month imprisonment by intelligence agencies, an RSF press release stated on Wednesday.
He is now being held in Khudzar prison under a 30-day custody order. “It is unacceptable that Mengal is not yet free after being kidnapped by military intelligence officers in April 2006,” the organisation said.
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http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\09\story_9-8-2007_pg7_21 |
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IT / TELECOM
E-government — a distant dream? |
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Although the use of computers in some government offices has increased efficiency, the goals of electronic government may take up to a decade to achieve because of capacity building and infrastructure problems.
Additional chief secretary Naguibullah Malik told Daily Times on Wednesday bureaucrats in various departments of the Civil Secretariate were generally hesitant in using computers.
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http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\09\story_9-8-2007_pg7_41 |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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