Sunday November 19, 2006

A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues

Journalist death

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/11/06
1118_journalist_death_sq.shtml

CM to lay foundation stone of journalists' colony tomorrow

Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi will formally lay the foundation stone of the Loi Bhair Journalists' Colony for the journalists of Rawalpindi and Islamabad tomorrow (Monday). This was disclosed in a meeting held here with Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club President Mushtaq Minhas in the chair, and attended by office-bearers of the press club, Housing Director Aslam Niazi, Executive District Officer (EDO) Mustafa Jamal and Public Relations Director Attaullah Baloch.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\11\19\story_19-11-2006_pg11_8

The News staffer grieved

Mother of Kamran Mansoor, a senior staff reporter at The News, Karachi , died on Saturday after a prolonged illness. She was 80. According to the aggrieved family-members, she was hospitalised a week back after suffering from triple pneumonia. She was wife of the late Syed Musharraf Ali Shamsi and leaves behind three daughters and three sons.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4

FM LISTENING:

‘Billo Bahi Ke Bathik' | People share social issues

People concerned over multiple social issues, have an opportunity to share their anxieties with a number of listeners of "Billo Bahi Ke Bathik" a chitchat program of Mast FM 103. A day before as I tuned FM "Billo Bahi Ke Bathik" was on its swing and the issue of street crime was being discussed. A number of callers pointed out that increasing rate of street crime had snatched their mental peace and after sun setting when they were out of their homes, they felt themselves in open hands of street criminals.
http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_CityNews.aspx?dtlid=69109&
catid=3&date=11/19/2006&fcatid=14

FEATURE

Intellectual Rights or Intellectual Wrongs?

Stringent patent and copyright laws are limiting access to knowledge by putting a price tag on information

By Ambreen Saadat

Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan recently held a conference on the implementation of the national Intellectual Property (IP) strategy in Islamabad . The conference was the third in the last two months, showing the zeal with which the Organization has approached the intellectual property rights (IPR) campaign in Pakistan .

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2006-weekly/nos-19-11-2006/pol1.htm#1

Literary wanderings

By Mustansar Hussain Tarar

For once I had absolutely nothing to do — no deadlines to meet, no TV recordings, no dictatorship and no democracy. A bald headed eagle flew over the lush green golf course and disappeared in the nearby marshy forest. In the mornings I packed my obnoxiously disproportioned figure in a jogging suit and started walking lazily beside the thick forest from where strange animal sounds emerged along with the morning symphony of the birds. At times a couple of deer would suddenly appear in front of me, gaze at me with their beautiful eyes for a while and then headed back to the jungle.

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/dmag8.htm

COMPILED by: Sajid Gondal, Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan (www.internews.org.pk)

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