Thursday September 14, 2006

A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues

MEDIA CONCERNS

Judicial report be made public, says PFUJ

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists on Tuesday demanded that the judicial commission's report on the kidnap and killing of journalist Hayatullah Khan be made public. A PFUJ press statement says the judicial commission, which held an in-camera inquiry, has reportedly submitted its report to the government. “The government should now keep its promise of making the report public,” says the press statement.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/14/nat13.htm

Journalists Colony before Ramazan: CM

Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has announced the Journalists Colony will be formally inaugurated and development work will start before Ramzan. He said this while talking to a delegation of journalists, which called on him at the Punjab House Wednesday. The delegation was led by Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club President Mushtaq Minhas, General Secretary Tariq Usmani, Sajjad Haider, president Rawalpindi-Islamabad, photo journalists association.    http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=58920&catid=17

Journalist colony project still on, Says CM Punjab

“CM Punjab Perviz Elahi assures Rawalpini/Islamabad Press club office bearers that efforts would be made to lay foundation stone for journalist colony.” The News (Metropolitan P-5)

STATE MEDIA  

NA website still showing Mengal as MNA

The National Assembly's official website is still showing Balochistan National Party (Mengal) leader Abdul Rauf Mengal as member of the National Assembly who resigned from the Assembly in protest against the killing of the Nawab Akbar Bugti on September7. http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=58922&catid=17

MEDIA BANNED

90 books fanning extremism banned

The government has banned the sale of literature preaching anti-Qadiyani sentiments besides banning the books and pamphlets inciting the public against the government for army action in Waziristan Agency and Balochistan.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=58913&catid=17

Book seller arrested from Aabpara Market for selling hatred material. (Jang P-2)

ARTICLES:

How US media views Muslims

By Robert Fisk

http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/14/op.htm#3

OBITUARY

Dawn staffer dies

Wahid Dino, a senior page-maker of Dawn, died here on Wednesday at the age of 53. He has left behind four sons and a daughter, besides his widow, to mourn his death.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/14/local22.htm

COMPILED by: Muhammad Farouk, Media Research Associate, Internews Pakistan (www.internews.org.pk)

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