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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Friday June 22, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Media in Courts
Kazmi moves SHC for protection of his family |
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A local freelance journalist, Syed Iqbal Kazmi, on Thursday filed a petition in the Sindh High Court (SHC) for protection of his family and quashing of cases against him. Kazmi, currently incarcerated in prison in connection with five cases, was facing life threats for filing a petition vis-a-vis the May 12 carnage in Karachi in the SHC. While filing a petition through the Superintendent Jail Malir, the petitioner said that the police implicated him in false cases because he had threatened to observe a hunger strike along with his family in front of the Sindh Chief Minister’s House until cases against those involved in the May 12 violence were registered by the government. Naming the home department, DSP Zahid Hussain Shah and police inspector Munir Chandio as respondents, the court was prayed to provide protection to the petitioner and his family and cases against him be quashed. The petitioner also sought B-class facility in jail.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=61431 |
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Media Protest
Feedback | Press freedom and democracy-II by Zaheer Bhatti |
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“There is neither any more possibility to muzzle the press, or curb its freedom nor wise to use state instruments to achieve a tailored mandate. The winds of change are signalling this time, a qualitative change and not just a regime substitution, and if the future incumbents are not ready with a practical road map to address people's problems, they will be brought down far more swiftly than they can imagine. Conversely, in the coming era of press freedom and democracy, where the Parliament should reign supreme with an independent judiciary, there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel, that the Quaid's real Pakistan may eventually see the light of the day.” |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=103576&catid=17 |
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Media Miscellaneous
MMA seeks NA debate on sketches in magazine |
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Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal on Thursday submitted an adjournment motion seeking debate on the publication of allegedly blasphemous sketches of Adam and Eve in a local English monthly. Liaquat Baloch, MMA’s deputy secretary general, submitted the adjournment motion to the National Assembly speaker in his chamber drawing his attention to the publication of sketches of Adam and Eve in a local English monthly “Octane”. He said that the publishers of the magazine had committed an un-Islamic act. The movers have requested the speaker to hold a debate on the issue in the House. Liaquat Baloch, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Aman Ullah Khan, Maulana Abdul Malik, Farid Ahmad Piracha, Syed Bakhtiar Mani, Laiq Khan, Ayesha Munawar, Samia Rahil Qazi and Farida Ahmad have signed the motion. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\06\22\story_22-6-2007_pg7_15 |
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BB slates violence against journalists |
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Expressing deep concern over violence against the journalists, Pakistan People's Party Chairwoman has condemned the murder of a tribal journalist on June 17. In a statement issued here Thursday, she said the rise in violence against the journalist was of deep concern to the PPP. She said the government had failed to provide security to the journalists. She urged the media persons to support the PPP and its allies in the forthcoming elections so that lives of
(News-9)
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=103583&catid=17 |
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Rs 100,000 for slain Khabroon reporter |
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Federal Minister for Information Muhammad Ali Durrani during a meeting with Editor Khabrain and Managing Editor The Post and Khabroon on Thursday announced compensation of Rs 100,000 for the heirs of slain Pir Jo Goth correspondent of Sindhi daily Khabroon Nisar Ahmad Solangi. During the meeting, Imtinan Shahid informed Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani about the details of the murder and demanded early arrest of the killers. Durrani assured that government would not tolerate any police slackness in this regard besides keeping Khabrain administration updated about investigation. Following the pressure of political and social circles and journalists' community police have started operation against the dacoits, who had gunned down young journalist Nisar Ahmad Solangi of daily Khabroon last Sunday.
(Khabrian-1)
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=6213&fb_id=2&catid=14 |
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17 arrested under FCR released |
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The Bara political administration on Thursday released 17 tribesmen arrested under the Collective Territorial Responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulation for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a local journalist and his friend. The two were recovered from Bara two months after being kidnapped. The administration also impounded a number of public and private vehicles belonging to Shalobar tribesmen. About a month ago, another 30 tribesmen from Shalobar and Malikdin Khel clans were released by the authorities after the recovery of Mr Qalandar and his friend.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/22/nat31.htm |
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Broadcaster remembered |
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Speakers at a programme at the Arts Council paid glowing tributes to Syed Moinuddin Shah, renowned broadcaster, poet and publisher, here on Thursday. Syed Moinuddin Shah is known as one of the pioneers at the Radio Pakistan, a veteran broadcaster at the BBC Urdu Service in London and the publisher of London-based literary periodical `Urdu Adab’, which earned him fame and respect among the global Urdu literati. The speakers who spoke on the life and times of the late Mr Shah included Prof Sahar Ansari, Syed Aizazuddin Shah, Azhar Abbas Hashmi, Dr Ayesha Haider and London-based Urdu poet Noorjehan Noori.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/22/local19.htm |
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Letter to Editor, “Tolerance threshold” |
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Khalid A, “I wonder whether Pakistani media and general public realise what awaits them, once General Musharraf departs. Can one imagine the level of freedom that will be available under leaders like Nawaz Sharif, Benazir, Fazalur Rehman, Altaf Hussain, Qazi Hussain Ahmad etc? Will any of them accept criticism gracefully? None of them believes in allowing an opinion different from his or her own.”
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\06\22\story_22-6-2007_pg3_7 |
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Television
INSIGHT: What’s in the camera? —Ejaz Haider |
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“Even so, with TV channels popping up everywhere, the media themselves have to debate the issue of what can be shown and what eschewed — and why. That has not happened so far and is unlikely to in the charged atmosphere that prevails and where normal discourse takes a backseat. With this is also linked the issue of electronic versus the print. To that we shall revert next week.”
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\06\22\story_22-6-2007_pg3_2 |
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Internet
Net cafés destroying moral values |
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Net cafés with covered cabins are cultivating adultery and negativism in teenagers by exposing nude visuals, the Post has learnt. Net cafés are spreading like mushrooms in twin cities. The computers are covered by a cabin which provides safe place for committing such sins. Most of the computers contain blue prints which are proving havoc for the youth.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=103579&catid=17 |
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Music
Int’l Music Day passes unnoticed |
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International Music Day Thursday passed unnoticed as none of music groups, institutions and organizations working for the promotion of music arranged any music event in the city to commemorate the day. International Music Day is observed every year on June 21.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/CityNewsT.aspx?dtlid=103624&catid=3 |
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Video shop owners asked to wind up business |
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Owners of two more leading video shops here have been warned of dire consequences unless they wind up the sale of video compact discs (VCDs) within two months. Letters were sent anonymously through postal system to Shabana Videos and Bilal CD Shop in Nishtarabad on Tuesday. Terming video centres ‘dens of obscenity and vulgarity’, the letters state: “You should learn a lesson from the treatment meted out to ‘dens of vulgarity’ in Mardan and Charssada. We give you two months’ time for winding up this business, failing which you will be responsible for all the consequences.” Three incidents in which video shops were targeted have already occurred in the provincial capital during past three months. In two of the incidents, explosive devices went off near the video shops, while two video shops were set on fire in another incident. Last month, two men, claiming to have come from the Lal Masjid in Islamabad, visited the office-bearers of local CD shops owners’ association and ‘asked’ them to end their businesses. Sometime later, unknown callers had made threatening calls to the organisation’s office-bearers. The letters’ sender stated that as Muslims, it was their responsibility to eliminate vulgarity from society, adding that one should not indulge in spreading vulgarity or assist anyone in this regard. The sender quoted a Hadith and urged the video shop owners to shut down their ‘un-Islamic’ business as it had resulted in spreading vulgarity.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/22/nat25.htm |
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Theater
Madeeha slams official policy to ban Burqavaganza |
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Madeeh Gauhar has lashed the Islamabad club management for refusing to let Ajoka stage its controversial Burqavaganza on its premises. She says such acts will damage enlightenment moderation and freedom of cultural expression in country.
(Dawn-12)
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Stage artists protest against telephonic threats |
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In Lahore artist’s community has strongly protested against telephonic threats being given to stage artists demanding huge amount of money. Stage artists and producers held a press conference; they urged govt to take notice of lawlessness. They also asked government to arrest culprits of attack on stage artist Siama Khan. In press conference, media was informed that some criminals were using telephone numbers 0334-7989632, 0332-4923946 to threat stage artists and demanding huge money.
(Express-3)
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Books
Need for a library |
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Niaz Hussain Shar, “Setting up libraries, along with educational institutions, might not be a big task if the government seriously wants to do so. There are 86 registered and several unregistered schools in Gulshan-i-Hadeed (the labour colony of the Pakistan Steel Mill), but no library in the area.
The area, including Steel Town (the officers’ colony of the Pakistan Steel Mill), Filter Plant Colony (from where water is supplied to half of the city), Pipri (rice godown of the city), Port Qasim Colony, Shah Town, Ghaghar Phatak, Nishtarabad and Razakabad, has a population of half a million.
Students preparing for regular and competitive examinations have to go to the Liaquat Memorial Library in Gulshan Town.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/22/letted.htm#9 |
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Telecommunication
Undocumented SIMs behind crime surge |
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Every citizen knows that he is innocent of any alleged crime until proved guilty in a court of law. But what happens if there is active evidence linking him to a crime, such as a SIM card registered in his name that was used for criminal purposes? Consider the case of Ashraf Ali, who went to a Ufone service centre for number portability and found, to his shock, that at least 19 cell phone connections had been issued against his Identity Card Number (NIC). Alarmed over the discovery, Mr Ali advised members of his family to have their NIC numbers checked. Subsequently, his brother-in-law found that Mobilink had issued over two dozen connections against his identity card. Even these details could be retrieved only through a contact in the cellular mobile telephone operator (CMTO).
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/22/local1.htm |
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