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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Wednesday August 22, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Journalist’s house raided |
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The house of a journalist in the Baghdadi area of Karachi was raided on Tuesday by policemen in plainclothes. According to Nadir Shah Adil, he was on duty when eight to 10 men wearing bullet-proof jackets barged into his house. The intruders misbehaved with members of his family, manhandled the children and kept asking the whereabouts of Jaingo. The armed men remained in the house for more than 45 minutes and kept harassing the family. The Karachi Union of Journalist has condemned the incident and demanded an inquiry. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/22/nat8.htm |
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Media Workshop
Workshop on lection reporting |
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Senior journalists delivered lectures and presentations in a workshop to equip mainstream media persons with tools to generate improved reports with better understanding of issues pertaining to election reporting. The three day workshop organized by Intermedia an Islamabad based media development organization in Murree.
(News-13)
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Critique on Media
Letter to Editor, “Role of media” |
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S. wahab comments, “Sitting far away in Canada and following the coverage of these very crucial times back home in Pakistan, I am really at a loss to understand the role of both the print and electronic media. It is indeed very disappointing to note a certain bias in a majority of shows and in articles and analysis that I read. There are talk shows galore; the hosts make it look like a courtroom where they have lawyers arguing endlessly on matters that are under the scrutiny of the High Courts and the Supreme Court. It is always nice to hear facts, but then the discussions are deliberately dragged against the government. I am delighted to see the judiciary free and independent, but some questions do pop up in my mind. One for example is how does it translate into justice for the common man, who is entangled in the lower courts system for ages? I hope I will see some positive improvements soon.” |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/LetNews.aspx?dtlid=113748&catid=4 |
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Media Miscellaneous
I want the news to be 100% correct: Azhar Abbas |
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Azhar Abbas, Director News and Current Affairs at DawnNews, speaks about the impact his channel will have on news and current affairs programming in Pakistan.
(Aurora-24)
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Letter to editor Information ministry’s problems |
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Muhammad Abdal Hameed, “Our information ministry is the most misinformed ministry, not knowing how to do even the most elementary things that it is supposed to do. Watch any news conference arranged by it. You will see a jungle of microphones in front of the speaker. These are not to record anything but just to put the logos in front of the camera so that the channels may give the impression that their reporters were there. Only very few channels have audio recorders in place; others get free publicity due to the ignorance of the ministry. The Ministry has yet to learn that it should place just two mikes of its own, without any logo on it. The mikes should lead to a hub where any channel may plug in its audio recorder, away from cameras. That will be equality for all. Every news conference has a crowd of unruly reporters, each clamouring to get attention, all creating a cacophony by speaking at the same time. Anybody with an accreditation card from the ministry can get in. Then it is free for all.” |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/22/letted.htm#3 |
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DT reporter robbed |
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Unidentified motorcyclists robbed a Daily Times reporter of Rs 5,000 and a cell phone in front of a cellular service company in Ghalib Market Police precinct late on Tuesday. Syed Hasan Ali, resident of Gujranwala, worked for the newspaper as a reporter. He said he was walking to work at about 7:00pm when two unidentified men on a motorbike stopped him, flashed their guns and took away his money and cell phone. The robbers managed to get away. Hasan complained to the police, but they had not registered a case till midnight.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\22\story_22-8-2007_pg7_36 |
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Shah Zaman posted as Minister (Press) in India |
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Mr. Shah Zaman Khan a BS 20 of information group is posted as Minister (Press) in information section High Commission for Pakistan New Delhi.
(Post-A2)
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Pakistan-UAE enjoy strong multi-faceted ties: Shaukat Aziz |
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Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday said Pakistan values its close and historic ties with the UAE, as the two brotherly countries have multi-faceted political, diplomatic, social, cultural, economic and defence cooperation. He was talking to a UAE media delegation which led by Zahid Mukhtar, News Editor “Daily Khaleej Time” called on him here at the Prime Minister House Tuesday evening. UAE media team also called on Ejaz ul Haq Minister for religious affairs.
(Nation-13)
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APP to hold National Conference for district correspondents by end August |
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Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), the premier news agency will hold a national conference for district correspondents in line with President Pervez Musharraf’s vision of free and responsible media by the end of this month. A brain storming meeting chaired by Managing Director APP Rai Riaz Hussain here on Monday finalised all the arrangements for the conference, aimed at improving professional skills of the district correspondents.
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&limit=15&limitstart=15 |
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Durrani appreciates NPF for Multi-Media Monitoring cell to counter propaganda |
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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Muhammad Ali Durrani has said that Multi-Media Monitoring and Evaluation Cell set up by Nazria-i-Pakistan Foundation will not only play a key role to counter anti-Pakistan propaganda, but also promote the ideology of Pakistan. He was talking to the newsmen at the launching ceremony of the Multi-Media cell at Aiwan-e-Karkunan-e-Pakistan here on Sunday. The aim of this cell is to counter the negative material against Pakistan published or released by all means of communication in any part of the world, he added. It would also furnish an authentic opinion to the government to take necessary steps against projection of negative image of Pakistan, he added.
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15018&Itemid=1 |
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Theater
Hunerkada to arrange stage play |
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Hunerkada will present a dramatic monologue 'Don't go down that street!' performed by Salman Shahid. The piece is written in a poetic vein by well known playwright Sarmad Sehbai and is directed by Claire Pamment. Written with the background of post 9-11 scenario, the play portrays a solitary man annihilated from the world searching for life in the flutter of birds. In his meanderings, he discovers that one of his beloved birds is missing. Sliding between hope and fear, his fragmentary speech alludes to the growing paranoia in an insecure world.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=113822&catid=17 |
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Art
NCA director favors use of technology in art |
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The fine arts and art related subjects have evolved tremendously in Pakistan during last sixty years, said National College of Arts Director Na1sir Malik while talking to The News here on Wednesday. He said technology intervention is being witnessed in every field. “in art related subjects too, we cannot refrain from using latest technologies,” he said.
(News-14)
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Music
Taliban ban music in Zargari, other areas |
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In Hungu, The local Taliban have banned music and sale of narcotics in Zargari and some other areas here, officials and residents said on Tuesday. Reports received here from the Naryab village said that the local Taliban shura had set a deadline for owners of CD and cassette shops and narcotic dealers to wind up their businesses and warned that their shops or houses would be destroyed if they did not heed the call. District Police Officer Ghulam Mohammad Khan said the move would help eliminate the menace of narcotics and other illegal activities in the area. He said the shura’s activities were confined to Zargari and some other villages and would not spill over to other areas. When contacted, Senator Mian Mohammad Hussain Hashmi, administrator of Jamia Uloom-i-Islamia, Zargari, said that students of his madressah were not involved in imposing the ban. The shura said that the ban would be effective in Zargari, Shanawari, Chappari Naryab, Naryab and Kahi villages and some other areas. It announced violators will be fined Rs50,000. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/22/nat4.htm |
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Books
PEC digital library inaugurated |
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The Pakistan Engineering Council has established a digital library at its headquarters to facilitate researches to have access to latest information and developments in engineering.
(Dawn-18)
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Telecommunication
PTA groping for remedy thru’ SMS verification: Illegal mobile connections |
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has asked the interior ministry to devise an SMS verification system to deal with the issuance of unauthorized cell phone connections. Sources told Dawn on Tuesday that the cell phone companies had submitted a proposal to the PTA regarding verification of new connections from the National Database and Registration Authority by sending an SMS (short message service) to it. They said the PTA had forwarded the recommendation to the interior ministry to take a decision. Verification of new connections by Nadra, they said, usually took about 15 to 20 days and the operators wanted some speedy and cost-effective alternative system. They said through the proposed SMS system a franchise dealer would verify the identity of an applicant by sending an SMS to the Nadra’s official concerned and would receive the response within minutes. Had the PTA taken up the issue a bit earlier instead of canalizing its energies in introducing the over Rs5 billion project of Mobile Number Portability that had yet to click, they said, the issue would have been resolved by now. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/22/nat27.htm |
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Letter to editor, “PTCL services” |
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Aggrieved Citizen, “The PTCL had a new ad on the front page of Dawn on Aug 17 about the ‘New PTCL’ and all the changes they want to bring about or have introduced. Perhaps someone from the billing or the administrative section would like to explain the new ‘Broadband line rent’ in our telephone bills for July. Our both phones (4910459 and 4926273) have been more ‘dead’ than alive during this period; again no dial tone for the last 12 days at least, though in all fairness one of them did ring once last night (Aug 16). And we most certainly have no broadband connection for which a line rent has been charged. In fact, when we tried to get a DSL connection, the lines were/are so bad that they failed and could not operate the system. I wait with bated breath for the phones to start working again and for someone to explain the new charge.”
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/22/letted.htm#5 |
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PTA holds MNP workshop today |
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is holding a three-day workshop here on "Implementing Mobile Number Portability (MNP)" on August 22 to 24 under the aegis of recently set up ITU Centre of Excellence (CoE) Node at the PTA headquarters.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/CorpNewsT.aspx?dtlid=113777&catid=8 |
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Mobile phone banking to be launched in December |
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Millions of mobile phone users in Pakistan would have facility of online banking from their sets for the first time in December, a senior official of the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom said Tuesday.
The service would enable mobile phone users to carry out online transactions including money transfer, cash-in, cash-out, person-to-person transfer, bill payments and on-line purchases.
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/aug-2007/22/nationalnews6.php |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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