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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Thursday October 11, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Newsman faces police ire for exposing IG |
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The family members of top investigative reporter of The News Shakeel Anjum have received threats from the police department for filing reports of the role of suspended IG Morvet Ali Shah in September 29 police violence against journalist and lawyers in Islamabad. Aamr Lasani, 17 the young son of Shakeel, is now facing a serious danger at the hands of police station new town Rawalpindi whose SHO personally called to convey the threatening message to reporter to fix his son in year old case.
(News-9)
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Media in Courts
SC asks ministry to submit report on objectionable TV programmes |
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A four-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Wednesday gave three weeks' time to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for submitting a complete report regarding the alleged objectionable programmes on PTV and private channels on a petition filed in 1996. The bench included Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi and Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan. The case was taken up by the bench on a petition filed in 1996 under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution by Advocate Fazal Elahi Siddiqui, who raised questions about various programmes in the light of the Islamic values. Attorney General Malik Abdul Qayyum appeared before the bench and sought time for submission of the report. The bench directed that a comprehensive report regarding airing of alleged 'indecent' programmes, code of conduct being observed by private TV channels and other related information should be submitted within three weeks.
(Jang-3) |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?fdtl_id=921&fb_id=2&catid=14 |
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Media Miscellaneous
PM Invites journalists to discuss wage award issue |
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Wage award issue: Prime Minister Shukat Aziz has said the issue of the Wage Board Award for journalists was a complex one and invited all journalists to meet with him to find a solution. “Freedom is your right and nobody can stop you,” he told the journalists. He said the electronic media was making progress and 50 TV channels were currently functioning in the country. He said press freedom had enabled the working conditions and wages of journalists to improve greatly over the past few years.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\11\story_11-10-2007_pg1_1 |
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Khyber Agency admin arrests journalist’s ‘kidnapper’ |
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Khyber Agency political administration on Wednesday arrested Khitaab Gul allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Peshawar-based journalist Sohail Qalandar, officials said. The accused was later handed over to the CID police for further interrogation. According to tribal authorities, Khitaab Gul, son of Pilaad Khan, belonging to the Shalober Qamber Khel tribe, was captured at Bara Bazaar. The accused is believed to be the mastermind of the journalist’s kidnapping case.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\11\story_11-10-2007_pg7_40 |
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Ministry, media persons at odds over probe body |
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The Interior Ministry contradicted a report, ‘Pressure to let IG get away with violence’, appeared in The News on Wednesday, while the Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) conveyed to the government its ‘no trust’ over the committee. The ministry said in a statement: “The three-member committee constituted by the government of Pakistan to inquire into the happening of 29th September, in Islamabad, has strongly contradicted the report published in daily The News conveying impression of the pressure being brought on the committee to exonerate the officials from any blame of that day’s happenings. Terming it as baseless, the committee suggested to avoid such insinuations that tend to pre-judge the outcome and effect the working of the committee.” Meanwhile the RIUJ Wednesday approached the committee head - Additional Secretary Imtiaz Qazi - protesting that it has been trying to get its choice statements from the journalists who had appeared before the committee. Meanwhile lawyers community including Haroon-ur-Rashid, President Islamabad Bar Association, have already expressed their reservations over the inquiry committee. The News had published the report, quoting reliable sources of the ministry of interior, regarding discriminatory attitude towards the suspended officers, saying that the three-member committee, constituted to probe the shameful September 29 incident, was under tremendous pressure to deliver a dictated ruling over the suspension of IGP, DC and SSP Islamabad. The sources had claimed that the committee has been informally told to give a clean chit to all the three suspended officials.
(Jang-3) |
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Music
CD shopkeepers protest Tuesday’s blast |
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Swabi CD traders give up business for fear of attack. Say they informed police of threatening letters, got no response, Regret that no govt official visited blast site, One victim of bombing succumbs to his injuries. Video and CD centres in the Nishtarabad area here remained shut in protest against Tuesday’s blast that killed a man and left 25 others injured. Mukhtiar of MK CDs said that no matter how many times the shops were bombed, they would not quit their business. “We will either die of hunger or bombing,” he said. “We have invested millions of rupees in the CDs business and are not able to quit the job because some unknown people do not like it.”
(Daily Times-1) |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\11\story_11-10-2007_pg7_7 |
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Traders agree to wind up CD business in Swabi |
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People engaged with the business of music and video CDs have announced that they will wind up their business and adopt some other profession/business to earn their livelihood. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the office of DSP Syed Imtiaz Ali Shah on Wednesday, which was attended by CD Traders’ Association president Zarwali Khan and others. Mr Zarwali said after the meeting that their desire was to maintain peace in Swabi and play a constructive role in the development of the district. He said police had not pressurised them to give up the CD business and they had taken the decision in the interest of the district and its people. He said they had already curtailed their business in Ramazan and after Ramazan there would be no CD business in the district. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/11/nat22.htm |
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Four policemen injured, 11 CD shops damaged in Kohat |
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Four policemen were injured in an explosion in the Bilitang area and 11 CD shops were damaged in a bomb blast in a market in the Gumbat town here on Tuesday night. An explosive device planted on a roadside near the Government High School in Bilitang was set off by remote-control when a police mobile was passing through the area.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/11/nat23.htm |
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Books
‘Islam Aur Fidai Hamlay’ banned |
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The Sindh Home Department has banned the publication and sale of a book titled ‘Islam aur Fidai Hamlay’ written by Mufti Abdul Bashar Qasmi (Islam and suicide attacks), and has declared that all copies of the book be forfeited to the government with immediate effect. The book allegedly contains propaganda material for militant organisations, to motivate people to carry out suicide bombings.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\11\story_11-10-2007_pg7_10 |
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Telecommunication
Operation against illegal SIMs after Eid |
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PTA and NADRA have shown dissatisfaction over the provision of data by the cellular companies operating in Pakistan for data verification of all mobile phone connections. A massive operation of blocking non verified SIMs is expected after Eid.
(News-20)
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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