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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Wednesday August 15, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Kidnapping
DHA picks up The Post photographer |
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A staff photographer of The Post was unlawfully detained by Defense Housing Authority (DHA) employees on Tuesday night when he was performing his duties on the Main Boulevard of the DHA. According to details, following several complaints received by the editor of The Post from the residents of the DHA that due to the sheer negligence of the authority, stinking water had been inundating the Main Boulevard for the last many days, staff photographer Waqas Shafee was assigned the task to take photographs of the road. When the photographer reached there, he was held by staffers of the DHA and taken to an unknown area in Z-Block of the DHA. The detainee contacted The Post administration and was released on inference by the Inter Services Public Relations, Lahore, after half an hour. Meanwhile, the staffers of the DHA not only deleted the photographs captured by Waqas, but also snatched other important documents from him. It is pertinent to mention here that DHA is a residential as well as commercial area where social programmes are regularly held, in which journalists participate. Thus the version of the DHA spokesman that the housing authority is a no-go area for journalists is not based on facts. The DHA employees detained Waqas Shafee unlawfully only to stop him from his professional responsibilities and to hide their negligence. Meanwhile, the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) and the Lahore Press Club (LPC) have strongly condemned the torture and illegal confinement of The Post photographer by DHA security officials, terming it an effort to suppress the freedom of the press. PUJ President Arif Hameed Bhatti and LPC General Secretary Syed Shoaib-ud-Din said that torturing journalists by secret agencies personnel, police and other security agencies have become a routine matter, which is aimed at usurping the freedom of the press. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=6899&fb_id=2&catid=14 |
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Restriction
DHA off-limits to photographer |
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DHA spokesman Tajamal Hussain has said that DHA is a prohibited area for photographers, while Mr Waqas was taking photos without prior permission from the authority.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=6900&fb_id=2&catid=14 |
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Awards for Media
Tamgha-i-Imtiaz announced for late Ednan Shahid, 2 other journalists |
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Civil awards were conferred on 154 citizens, including the late Ednan Shahid, the founding editor of The Post, and 17 foreign nationals on the Independence Day in recognition of their outstanding services for Pakistan. The President of Pakistan will hand over the awards at an impressive ceremony to be held here on March 23 in connection with the Pakistan Resolution Day. Two other journalists to get the award are Shakil Sheikh and Tahir Khalil.
(Aaj-1)
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=6898&fb_id=2&catid=14 |
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Best National Columnist award for Mussrat Leghari |
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Nawa-i-Waqt columnist Mussrat Leghari has been given Best National Columnist Award. This award is given by Pakistan United Nations Association.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-3)
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Media Miscellaneous
Durrani Media colony to be inaugurated by month end |
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NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani will inaugurate Durrani Media Colony at Regi model town by end of this month. The decision to this effect was taken at a high level meeting held here Monday.
(News-3)
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President felicitate PTV team |
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President Musharraf has felicitated MD PTV Yousaf Beg Mirza and entire PTV team for holding special show to celebrate Independence Day.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-3)
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Print Media
Dawn turns 60 |
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IT was a 16-page issue with a kind of front page that subeditors even in the classical mould would refuse to countenance. It carried just one story with the headline spread across seven columns. There was no other story, no double columns or single column “tops”, nor a “bottom” or an “anchor”, as we journalists call it, to balance the page. The only other piece on the page was not even news; it was an article – a message by Beverley Nichols, the author of Verdict on India (with the celebrated chapter on Jinnah, “Dialogue with a Giant”). But a look at the lead story would convince the reader why it was and had to be the only story, for it announced the birth of the Islamic world’s biggest state – Pakistan.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/15/top4.htm |
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Radio
FM Listening | Air waves loaded with patriotic spirit by Sehrish Wasif |
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It is really a great feeling to see the air waves loaded with songs like Tere Bina Dil Na Lage Pakistan, Hawa Hawa, Dil Dil Pakistan, Soni Dharti and many other patriotic numbers in the build-up to the Independence Day instead of being loaded with songs from Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake. One must say this is the only occasion when he/she gets a feeling that the channel she/he has been listening to belongs to his country as throughout the year he/she hardly gets to hear any patriotic song going on air.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=112588&catid=17 |
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Music
Music shops destroyed in Landi Kotal |
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Three explosions late on Tuesday rocked music shops in the Landi Kotal bazaar, but no casualties were reported. According to sources, militant organisation Amer Bil Maroof claimed responsibility for the incidents and left a letter in the bazaar warning all video and music shop owners to stop spreading ‘vulgarity’ in the area or face more attacks. The political administration arrested Ahmad Shah Shinwari, Mian Wali Shinwari, Ibrar and Shams — the owners of the music centres — for investigation.n. Meanwhile, flood-affected people in Khyber Agency protested against the government on Independence Day and refused the political administration’s request to take down the black flags of mourning flying over their houses.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\15\story_15-8-2007_pg7_15 |
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Telecommunication
Cell phone theft continues |
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“Mobile phone companies have long been accused of not complying with PTA requirements on implementing the system as they are keener on securing new connections than addressing cell phone theft. The PTA will have to work with them and devise new strategies to address this issue as well as other concerns, like how easy it is to get a cell phone connection or how one person can have so many connections in his/her name. All these need serious attention.”
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/15/ed.htm#3 |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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