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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Sunday April 22, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Media Protest
Media is not as free as govt claims: Arif Nizami |
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Editor ‘The Nation” and Executive Editor Nawa-i-Waqt Arif Nizami has said that media is not as free as government claims. If opposition says media is responsible while on the other hand government considers it irresponsible. Talking to TV channel, he said that it was difficult for media to differentiate between national interests and government interests. Media has always kep national interest supreme but government tried to mix national interests and government interests.
(Nation-8)
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Media Critique
Balochistan government spokesman’s Clarification on media report |
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Balochistan government spokesman Raziq Bugti has described the report appeared in a national English-language daily as baseless and misleading. Referring to The News report on April 19 with the headline “Balochistan’s mobile CM”, the spokesman said the provincial government has taken strict notice of the report and reserved the right to sue the journalist responsible.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_default.asp |
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Media Unions
PFUJ-Apnec demands day tomorrow |
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The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (APNEC) will observe ‘Demands Day’ on April 23 for the implementation of the 7th Wage Award and to press the government to constitute the 8th Wage Board. According to a press release, the two apex bodies of the newspapers’ employees have directed all their affiliated unions to organise protest meetings to press for the acceptance of their demand. The PFUJ and the APNEC have also appealed to the journalists covering National Assembly, to organise a token walkout against the government failure to ensure the implementation of the 7th Wage Award and urge the government to withdraw all the concessions given to the newspaper owners on the condition that they would implement the wage award. The unions will also observe May Day, along with the other trade unions followed by Media Conference in Islamabad on the eve of ‘International Press Freedom Day’ on May 3. PFUJ’s affiliates will also organise seminars at their respective centres.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/22/local13.htm |
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Media Blah Blah
750 newspaper stalls removed from encroachment category |
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City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has exempted 750 newspaper stalls in different parts of Karachi from the encroachment category. He said that directives of former Commissioner, Karachi, would be implemented in this regard while those cabins where only newspapers are sold and set on the proper places with 4 X 4 feet size would not be removed. Instead, they will be issued authority letters by the city government. He said this while talking to a delegation of the All-Pakistan Akhbar Farosh Federation who called on him at his office on Saturday. The Nazim said that a written authority letter would be issued in this connection that would be displayed on every hawker’s cabin. The Nazim Karachi assured that at present 15,000 workers associated with the newspaper hawking business who deliver newspapers at home daily would be provided complete security.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4 |
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Newspaper stalls are not encroachments: nazim |
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Karachi Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Saturday said that 750 newspaper stalls in various parts of the city were exempted from the encroachment category. In a meeting with All Pakistan Akhbar Faroosh Federation said that directives of former commissioner Karachi would be implemented.
(Nation-3)
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Media to assist govt efforts in eradicating serious diseases |
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NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah and Peshawar Press Club Chairman Muhammad Riaz Saturday formed a committee to chalk out modalities for the newly-setup Media-Health Working Group, aimed at assisting the government in its efforts to eradicate serious diseases including polio from the country. The committee was formed during a function held in connection with briefing the newsmen about latest situation of polio cases in NWFP. The press briefing was attended by NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah, Secretary Health, Dr Abdus Samad, WHO representative, Abdul Jabbar and officials of NWFP Health department and Unicef. The minister, in his speech, welcomed setting up of Media-Health Working Group. He said media played very effective role in creating awareness among masses about effects of serious diseases.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_NatNews.aspx?dtlid=93410&catid=2&date=04/22/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Official website of Sukkur TMA inaugurated |
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Sindh Minsiter Muhammad Hussain inaugurated the official website of TMA Sukkur at Muhammad Ali Johar Park in Sukkur. Minister said on the occasion that establishment of website and GIS mapping system, the TMA would come at par with IT developed areas working within as well as outside Pakistan, enabling it to be part and parcel of present global village.
(Daily Times-3)
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District Naib Nazim felicitate press club |
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District Naib Nazim Rawalpindi Muhammad Afzal Khokar has congratulated newly elected members of Rawalpindi Islamabad press club. He expressed hope that newly elected body will work for the welfare of media community. He appreciated the role of media for highlighting the issues.
(Express-2)
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PTV General Manager’s moot from 23rd |
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The PTV managers’ quarterly conference for three days will begin from April 23 here in Islamabad. Federal Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani will deliver an inaugural address while State Information Minister Tariq Azeem and Information and Broadcasting Secretary Syed Anwar Mehmood will also speak to the managers. Yousaf Beg Mirza will deliver opening remarks.
(Express-9)
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Cinema
Movie title causes an uproar |
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The situation at the Rainbow Centre, Sadar, remained tense on Friday after some of the members of a certain ethnic group kept visiting the market throughout the day inquiring from shopkeepers about copies of a recently released controversial movie which contained a sub-title, mentioning the name the community. Some of the shopkeepers at the Rainbow Centre released blueprints of an English-based porn movie with a changed sub-title ‘Baloch MMS’ some eight days ago. “The release of movies with such sub-titles produces interest among the public ultimately increasing its sale,” some of the shop owners at the Rainbow Centre told this correspondent. They said that it was an English-based porn movie and only three people were involved in changing the title of the movie, who later released it with a new name.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4 |
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Cinema’s Iranian model |
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The National College of Arts (NCA) organised an Iranian Film Festival in the first week of January. All the movies shown during the festival were directed by Majid Majidi, an outstanding Iranian filmmaker of the 1990s, securing a new reputation for his nation in the international filmmaking community. On the other hand, in Pakistan the condition of the film and cinema industry has been miserable. Unskilled and illiterate people have been engaged with filmmaking; resultantly their productions are neither thematic nor worthy. These movies have failed to attract the viewers and to bring them back to cinema halls. Almost all the country’s cinemas remained closed for three consecutive Thursdays on the token strike call of Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association (PFEA), demanding permission to screen Indian movies as Lollywood has failed to attract audience and whatever it was producing is not enough at all.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_OpinionNews.aspx?dtlid=93405&catid=11&date=04/22/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Internet
City diary | hovers over net cafes |
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Blind glasses with transparent ones so that the cyber user is clearly visible from outside. The cafe owners should also install filters on their servers to stop unethical activities. In fact, some unscrupulous owners of the internet cafes help the net users in searching for immoral web sites,” said Ismail Shah, a computer engineer. Abdul Aziz, a retired civil servant and a father of two college going teenagers, says, “Both my children are computer geeks but I do not allow them to use the internet in my absence, and do I let them go to a net café. I agree that the internet has an unmatchable information tool nowadays, but the need to safeguard children from its harmful effects has never been greater. And when it comes to the issue of morality, there is no room for compromise on it,” he said.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=93337&catid=17&date=04/22/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Art
National Art Gallery rift: Salima Hashmi floats public petition in favour of visual arts |
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Salima Hashmi and several other visual artists have circulated a petition in the public that asks President Pervez Musharraf to make the National Art Gallery in Islamabad exclusive for visual arts. The petitions are part of a rift between two lobbies – of performing artists and visual artists. The performers want the gallery to feature performing arts as well as visual arts. However, the other lobby wants the gallery to be exclusive for visual arts.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\22\story_22-4-2007_pg7_43 |
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Letter to editor “National Art Gallery |
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Samar Faisal Zia comments “This is in regard to the change of name of the National Art Gallery. It seems unfair that the public of Pakistan should be deprived of their cultural history. When we have had great artists like Chughtai and Sadequain they should be flaunted if for no other reason but to increase our pride in our nation and spread awareness in the apathetic youth of today. To mix and camouflage visual art, which is a separate, cultural entity on its own is unfair not only to visual artists but also the performing art community.”
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=11 |
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Copy Rights
NA body for strict action against lecturers involved in plagiarism |
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The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Education on Saturday recommended that stern action should be taken against those lecturers who had committed plagiarism to obtain PhD degrees, and also called for zero tolerance of such offences. The committee met here with Begun Tehmina Dasti in the chair to discuses the steps being taken by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) against substandard higher educational institutions. The committee also recommended imposition of a ban on substandard institutions of higher education, including universities, whose degrees are not recognised, saying that they are spoiling the future of students. It appreciated the performance of the HEC and suggested that there should be a balance between recurring and development budgets of the commission and that the educational budget should be increased up to four per cent as the education sector needs special reforms to uplift its standard. Begum Tehmina Dasti landed the HEC’s role and recommended that colleges, especially those for girls, should be upgraded to overcome the shortage of universities so that female students of backward areas could get opportunities for acquiring higher education.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=6 |
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Copyright means right to copy by Aoun Sahi |
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The prestigious Punjab University is once again in the headlines for the publication of plagiarised articles in international research journals by some of its faculty members. The Dean Faculty of Science, Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran, was the person who pointed out to the university administration in April last year that the director of the Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP) and at least four faculty members of the same centre were involved in plagiarism. They had published a research article in September 2002 in the science journal, titled 'Science in Africa', that was plagiarised from an article of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva website, he says.
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http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2007-weekly/nos-22-04-2007/enc.htm#1 |
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