Saturday June 17, 2006

Terrible times we live in:

Journalist Hayatullah found dead in Mir Ali

MIR ALI: Tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan, who went missing on December 5 last year while investigating the death of an Al Qaeda operative, was found dead in North Waziristan on Friday, a local official said. “We found a dead body, which was recognised as Hayatullah, the missing tribal journalist,” Mir Ali Assistant Political Agent Muhammad Fida Khan told Daily Times by phone.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\06\17\
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Kidnapped tribal journalist found dead in Mir Ali

Body of tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan Dawar, who had been kidnapped more than seven months ago, was recovered from mountains some six kilometres south of the Mir Ali town in North Waziristan Agency on Friday. Eyewitnesses told The News that the handcuffed body of Hayatullah was found in the mountains of Khaisur village by local tribesmen, who reported to the political administration. The political authorities shifted the body to a hospital and later handed it over to the deceased's family.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_default.asp

Missing' journalist's body found

A tribal journalist missing for about seven months has been killed. His body was found lying outside a village in Mirali in the restive North Waziristan tribal region on Friday afternoon. His hands chained, the 29-year-old Hayatullah Khan had been shot from behind, his brother Ihsanullah Khan Dawar told Dawn on phone.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/06/17/top5.htm

Abducted journalist found dead

Authorities on Friday found the body of a local journalist who went missing while investigating the killing of a senior Al-Qaeda operative in a tribal region six months ago, officials said.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_Ba_ShortNews.aspx?fbshortid=890&
bcatid=14& date=06/17/2006&fcatid=14&bstatus=Archive

CPJ wants Hayatullah's killers arrested

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed “distress” at the killing of journalist Hayatullah Khan in Mir Ali and demanded that the government act against those responsible for the murder.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\06\17\
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Soomro flays violence against journalists

Acting President and Chairman Senate Muhammadmian Soomro here on Friday condemned violence against journalists, saying that the federal as well as provincial government was taking effective measures for the protection of newsmen.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=2

Media twisting views on Hudood: MMA

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) legislators have accused a media organisation of distorting and under-reporting views opposed to the repeal of the Hudood Ordinances in a panel discussion programme.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\06\17\
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SAFMA debates obscurantism, religious programmes

A discourse on obscurantism and religious programmes proved fruitful on the second day of SAFMA II, when different countries in South Asia Region analysed the commonalities between the communities of the religious programmes. They also discussed reasons whether the religious programmes add to the values of programming and viewership or whether they instigate people or have no effect.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4

FM LISTENING: Doesn't western music pose a threat?

Some days earlier in one of my articles I had discussed the different policies adopted by our local and international FM channels for running their transmission. Most of the FM channels are not in a favour of playing Indian songs for they think that would promote Indian culture through FM in Pakistan . That's good reasoning. However, this is only one side of the coin.
http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=44830&catid=17&
date=06/17/2006&fcatid=14

Letter to Editor:

Only on PTV

Keeping in view its traditions, PTV has provided an ample opportunity for its viewers to switch over to other satellite channels. In stage one of the FIFA Football 2006, out of 48 matches only 23 matches are being telecast and in stage two only selected matches will be telecast. Being the national channel, PTV must broadcast all the matches of this mega event.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_LetNews.aspx?dtlid=44810&catid=4&
date=06/17/2006&fcatid=14

More:

“Journalist to boycott National Assembly”, Dawn, Page-19

News sources:

The News: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/

The Nation: http://www.nation.com.pk/

Daily Times: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/

The Dawn: http://www.dawn.com

Spider: www.spider.tm

BBC South Asia : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/

Herald: http://dawn.com/herald/

Aurora : www.aurora@dawn.com

The Economist: www.economist.com

IFEX: www.ifex.org

Jang: http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/

Nawa-i-waqt: http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk

Khabrain: http://www.khabrain.com

Daily Development News: http://asp.isb.sdnpk.org/

The Post: http://www.thepost.com.pk/

Business Recorder: http://www.brecorder.com

Asia Media: www.asiamedia.ucla.edu

PEMRA: www.pemra.gov.pk

Compiled by, Sajid Gondal Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan .

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