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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/03/070313_sjc_advice_sen.shtml |
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SJC warns media over CJ's issue media trail |
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Supreme Judicial Council is hearing a reference under Article 209 of the Constitution against Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The Council has noted with grave concern that the electronic and print media is engaged in media trial on a sub-judice matter whose proceedings are being held in-camera and are not to be reported except as directed/authorised by the Council, says a press release issued on Tuesday from the office of the registrar Supreme Court of Pakistan.Therefore, the Supreme Judicial Council cautions the electronic and print media to refrain from indulging in media trial and in this behalf directs the Ministry of Information and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, Islamabad to advise the electronic and print media not to arrange or produce talk shows and other similar programmes concerning issues pending before the Council.
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/mar-2007/14/index15.php |
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Supreme Judicial Council’s Press release |
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In press release issued by Supreme Judicial Council, It has been asked to media to publicize only given information. No other material should be made public. The Council has noted with grave concern that the electronic and print media is engaged in media trial Supreme Judicial Council has issued direction to Ministry of Information to direct media that only provided information should be made public.
(Express-1)
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Durrani says no need to impose emergency in country | SJC, not govt, had barred media from covering the case |
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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani Tuesday said the decision to sent reference against suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was not taken by President General Pervez Musharraf, but by the government. Information Minister Muhammad Ali Khan Durrani said the SJC had issued an advice to television channels not to report the sub judice presidential reference, as it would have adverse effects on the judiciary. Answering a question about the restriction on lawyers, journalists and politicians to meet the suspended CJP, he said they should have had in their mind that they were going to meet a judge and not a political figure. Meanwhile, Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Tuesday met at the Aiwan-e-Sadr Monday to discuss matters related to the current constitutional crisis in the country. According to sources, the two leaders discussed the situation in the wake of presidential reference against the suspended CJP Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
(Khbarian-1)
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Fb_ShortNewsT.aspx?fbshortid=1725&fcatid=14&fstatus=Current&bcatid=14&bstatus=Current |
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APNS meeting for role in current crisis |
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APNS has decided to take position about ongoing judicial crisis. Meeting decided that being fourth pillar, APNS will play its role in current situation. APNS meeting informed that APNS delegation was barred to meet President and Chief Justice. In meeting, advertisement policy and problems related to newspaper industry were also debated. Annual general council meeting will be held in Karachi on March 29. APNS Executive meeting held in Islamabad. Mir Shakeel ur Rehman chaired the meeting.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-1) (Jang-2)
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APNS's Annual General Council meeting on March 29 |
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The Executive Committee of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society at a meeting held at Islamabad under the chairmanship of its President, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, decided to hold its Annual General Council Meeting on Thursday, March 29, 2007 at Karachi.
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/mar-2007/14/nationalnews11.php |
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Presidential reference against senior judge: Govt trying to gag press: PFUJ |
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Durrani rejects reports govt pressing media to report in its favour
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Tuesday expressed apprehensions that the government was trying to keep the national media “a bit quieter” on the issue of filing of a presidential reference against suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\14\story_14-3-2007_pg7_1 |
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Chief justice refers to Nawa-i-Waqt in his plea |
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Chief Justice of Pakistan Ifhtikar Chudhary has mentioned special reference of Nawa-i-Waqt news in his plea submitted in supreme judicial court. He has presented a section of news published newspaper as reference.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-1)
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Silent protest demo by Writers today |
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Writers will protest over immoral police behavior with Chief Justice. Writers of Islamabad will observe a silent demonstration outside Rawalpindi Islamabad Press club camp office near Melody at 11:00 p.m. Ahmed Faraz will lead the protest congregation of writers, poets of Islamabad.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-2)
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Wasi Zafar in hot water |
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Federal Law Minister Wasi Zafar lost his temper during a live programme of Voice of America (VOA) and used indecent and foul language against a journalist, Ansar Abbasi, according to a private TV channel report. The law minister was participating in a live programme when, during a hot debate with another participant, Ansar Abbasi, he lost his temper and abused him. The minister was angry at the reporter for contributing a story about him to a local English-language daily. The reporter's story was headlined, "Law minister facing long arm of the law". Accusing the reporter of contributing fake stories about him, the minister said: "If a reporter will put a big arm in the law minister, I will put a big arm in that reporter, rather all his family."
(Express-1)
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?fdtl_id=699&fb_id=2&catid=14 |
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Wasi Zafar, journalist exchange harsh words |
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Harsh words were exchanged between Federal Law Minister Wasi Zafar and Islamabad-based journalist Ansar Abbasi on a radio programme – Voice of America – with the former making blatant use of abusive language, reported Geo TV. On Wasi Zafar’s insistence, the channel later aired a recording of the radio programme in which the minister and the journalist lashed out at each other’s families.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\14\story_14-3-2007_pg7_30 |
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Law minister couldn’t help abusing on VoA |
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Federal Law Minister Wasi Zafar repeatedly hurled naked abuse in a live Voice of America (VoA) radio discussion on chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's deposition, which was heard worldwide on Monday night. There were three participants in the telephonic discussion — Wasi Zafar, constitutional expert Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan and Ansar Abbasi, Editor Investigations, The News, Islamabad.
(Jang-1) (Khabrian-8)
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=6496 |
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Dawn ad ban issue raised in assembly |
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Balochistan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mir Abdur Rehman Jamali and opposition members in the provincial assembly have demanded that the federal government should restore advertisements to Dawn. They said curtailing the newspaper’s advertisements was against the principle of freedom of the press. Opposition member Jan Mohammad Buledi raised the issue on Tuesday on a point of order, saying that the newspaper was being punished for its independent editorial policy and coverage of events in Balochistan. He said the people of Balochistan praised Dawn for pinpointing excesses and exposing the government’s policy of oppression against innocent people.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/14/nat1.htm |
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Attempt to abduct PTV worker’s nephew |
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In Shehzad town vicinity of Islamabad, influential tried to kidnap nephew of a PTV worker. His daughter had already been abducted. Mother of abducted girl has appealed to authorities for justice.
(Khabrain-3)
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Indirect contacts with Italy over journalist: Taliban |
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A Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday there had been “indirect contacts” with Italian officials about a journalist kidnapped 10 days ago whom the militants have threatened to kill. The journalist, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, was in good health, and being kept with two Afghans he was captured with on March 4, at a Taliban “base” in the southern province of Helmand, Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said. “He’s in a good health and being kept in a Taliban base,” Ahmadi said in a telephone call from an unknown location. “We have been in indirect contacts with the Italians over this.” The Italian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it believed the 52-year-old was alive, based on news received from reliable sources.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\14\story_14-3-2007_pg7_34 |
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Film exhibitors back strike call |
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The Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association (South Zone) on Tuesday supported the call for weekly strikes given by its counterpart of the North Region and said the strikes would begin on March 15 and would be observed every Thursday across the country until their demands were met. “We’ll also observe strike on March 22, 29 and April 5 and will go for a weeklong strike on April 12 when all cinemas in the country will remain shut,” Nadeem Mandviwala, chairman of the PFEA (South Zone), told the media at the Karachi Press Club.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/14/local11.htm |
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Fm listening | Is two better than one? |
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It is said two are better than one. Every day we come across many situations where we want someone to be with us. A companion who could make us feel comfortable and supports us in tackling various situations. I don’t necessarily mean a boyfriend or a girlfriend but rather anyone who could serve as a support system.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=87179&catid=17 |
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Ahmed Ali Khan passes away |
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One of the country's most senior journalists and a former chief editor of Dawn, Ahmed Ali Khan, passed away here Tuesday after protracted illness, his family members announced. He was about 83.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Ba_ShortNewsT.aspx?fbshortid=1689&bcatid=14&bstatus=Current&fcatid=14&fstatus=Current |
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Ahmad Ali Khan passes away |
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Mr Ahmad Ali Khan, the former chief editor of daily Dawn, passed away on Tuesday morning at a local hospital after a protracted illness. He was 83. He left behind his wife, short story writer Hajra Masroor, daughters Naveed Ahmad Tahir and Nausheen Ahmad, three grandchildren and a great grandchild.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/14/top2.htm |
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Demise of Ahmed Ali Khan widely condoled |
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CPNE, APNS, PM, Mushahid term it a great loss to journalism, nation
Pakistan Newspapers Association (CPNE) President Syed Faseih Iqbal and Secretary General Wamiq A Zuberi have also condoled the sad demise of veteran editor and journalist Ahmed Ali Khan and termed it a national loss.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=87172&catid=17 |
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Ahmad Ali Khan — giant of journalism |
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Mr Ahmad Ali Khan’s death here on Tuesday removes from the scene one of the giants of Pakistan’s English journalism. With Dawn, whose editor he was for 28 years, his association began before partition in Delhi in 1946 with Mr Altaf Husain as editor, and ended in Karachi in 2004. In between he served as editor of The Pakistan Times, but returned to Dawn in 1962. Thus on the whole he was with Dawn for 42 years, 28 of them as editor, longer than any other editor. His journalistic career spanned over five decades, beginning in 1945 with Tarjuman, published in Bhopal, his hometown, where he was born in 1924.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/14/nat2.htm |
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Giant of journalism mourned: Khan Saab – grace personified |
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The death of veteran journalist, former editor-in-chief of Dawn Ahmed Ali Khan was widely mourned by the media and representatives of different organisations.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/14/local2.htm |
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The end of an era |
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AN era in Pakistan’s journalism came to an end when Dawn’s legendary editor, Ahmad Ali Khan, died in Karachi on Tuesday morning after a protracted illness. He took over as Dawn’s editor in 1973 when the paper was facing virtual closure, and the country had still not come out of the trauma of the separation of East Pakistan. Dawn was reduced to six pages, with the paper finding it difficult to pay salaries to its staff. By the time he quit as Chief Editor 27 yeas later, Dawn was in a financially sound position — an asset that helped him stand pressures from despotic regimes. In salvaging Dawn, Mr Ahmad Ali Khan, known to his colleagues and admirers as Khan Saab, proved himself a tenacious fighter not only for Dawn but for all that the Quaid stood for.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/14/ed.htm#1 |
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Express editorial on Ahmed Ali Khan |
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Express editorial on Ahmed Ali Khan has termed the death of renowned journalist as great loss to society. He was pillar of journalism.
(Express- Editorial)
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Senior Sub Editor Jang Passed away |
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Senior Sub Editor the Jang Rawalpindi Muhammad Imran Mirza passed away due to heart failure. He was laid to rest in Mirpur Azad Kashmir.
(Jang-2)
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