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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Friday March 23, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Committee to discuss security of journalists |
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Senior journalists from print and electronic media have formed a joint action committee that will hold its first meeting on Saturday to discuss the security of working journalists across country. The committee was formed at a dialogue on ‘Press freedom’ organized by south Asian free media association (SAFMA) and Rawalpindi Islamabad press club.
(Dailytimes-A3) (Jang-2)
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Media should be free in according to constitution |
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Citizen Media Commission (CMC) Islamabad chapter has urged for freedom of media in according to constitution. CMC has expressed concern over recent abuses against media. CMC advocated that media should be allowed to fulfill its responsibilities in according to freedom extended in constitution.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-12)
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EU to discuss The News, Geo TV attack with govt |
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The European Union and Pakistan would soon discuss the recent incidents, including the "suspension" of the chief justice of Pakistan, ransacking of the The News and Geo television offices by police in Islamabad and the Third Generation Agreement. Talking to The News at a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome (European Economic Community), Ambassador of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union Dr Gunter Mulack and Head of Delegation Ambassador Jan De Kok said President Gen Pervez Musharraf has already promised that before the general elections in 2007, he would quit the office of the chief of the Army staff. "Europe will monitor the situation from today onward. We will look at the steps of the government and the election commission regarding holding of the general elections. We all are aware of the fact that rigging takes place not only on the eve of ballot but the governments of third world start rigging months before the Election Day," Dr Mulack observed.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=6 |
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Afghan journalists laud Pak women’s support |
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Afghan female journalists have praised Pakistani women for extending them all-out support for protecting their just cause, as well as bringing normalcy in Afghanistan. An eight-member delegation of Afghan women journalists, currently visiting Pakistan said they received encouraging response from Pakistani side, promoting their common interest, having a dignified position in the society. During the visit to Information Service Academy (ISA) and National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) helped them to assess role of Pakistani women in national development and get experience from their struggle for empowerment.
(Express-3)
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Media varsity plan yet to become reality |
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The proposed plan of the government to launch a world class media university in the public sector by September this year is yet to become a reality. The proposed media university, with its main campus in Islamabad and satellite campuses in provincial capitals, has been attracting media attention for over two years.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\23\story_23-3-2007_pg11_2 |
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Zia Shahid, Arif Nizami, Qazi Asad to get Sitara-e-Imtiaz |
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Khabrain Group of Newspapers Chief Executive Zia Shahid, Arif Nizami and Qazi Asad Abid are receiving Sitara-e-Imtiaz as President General Pervez Musharraf confers civil and military awards on the Pakistan Day today upon 142 Pakistanis and 14 foreigners for their outstanding performance.
(Khabrian-1)
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_Fb_ShortNews.aspx?fbshortid=1753&fcatid=14&date=03/23/2007&bcatid=14&bstatus=Archive |
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Visual artists strongly resist, oppose 'hijacking' of National Art Gallery |
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Led by eminent visual artists appointed by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) to curate the inaugural show of the country's most significant art project in six decades, the visual art community -- from Khyber to Karachi -- is strongly reacting against what they call the "hijacking of the National Art Gallery by performing arts." Visual artists are opposed to renaming of the National Art Gallery as Pakistan Centre of the Creative Arts and are adamant that the name on which the project was initiated and executed be retained. "Please help the art community of Pakistan to get back the National Art Gallery," reads an email message circulated by Nilofar Farrukh, one of the curators of the gallery.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=6 |
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Visual artists see a lot in change of name: National Art Gallery |
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Just days before its opening, the National Art Gallery has been renamed as the National Centre of Creative Arts to the shock of the visual arts community in the country. Top visual artists expressed the fear that this action of the Ministry of Culture was an attempt to undermine the very concept for which the gallery was founded. They suspected that the motive behind the renaming was to expand the national art gallery project to include “all forms of performing arts”. It was meant to be one of the country’s largest and most significant art projects in six decades - a home to some of the rarest works by the nation’s greatest masters like Sadequain, Chughtai and Shakir Ali to name a few.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/23/nat11.htm |
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Panj Pani Indo-Pak Theatre Festival | Festival put off after Indian artistes denied visas |
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The 4th Panj Pani Indo-Pak Theatre Festival which was scheduled to be held from March 24 to 31 has been postponed due to non-issuance of visas to Indian artistes. The administration has announced April 16 to April 23 as new dates for the festival, but, the director of Ajoka Theatre, well-known TV artist, Madeeha Gauhar said that these dates are also tentative as there is still uncertainty of when the visas of the Indian artistes would be issued. Nonetheless, she seemed hopeful and said that maybe this time they would not have to postpone the festival.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_ShortNews.aspx?shortid=3426&catid=3&date=03/23/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Media trials: Ijaz Ahsan |
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The Kamran Khan who interviewed President Musharraf on Monday was not the Kamran Khan whose programme had been banned. A friend said he had asked all the necessary questions. True; but when Musharraf answered, Kamran did not follow it up with the obvious objections that come to mind. For example, orders for such a major action as attacking a very popular media channel cannot come from anyone below the rank of SP or DIG. Now I ask you, dear reader, which SP is there who could have attacked Geo without clearance from the government? Well, if the President did not order the attack, who did it? Was it the IG, the interior secretary, interior minister, or prime minister? These are the only other persons who could have given the order. Why are they not being summoned and questioned? Alternatively, the police inspector should be asked who ordered him, and the matter should be taken all the way up.
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http://nation.com.pk/daily/mar-2007/23/columns2.php |
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Press under siege | Enough, isn’t it?, Sadaf Arshad |
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“Media forms an integral part of statehood in this era of information. I have great regard and respect for the media…I am a firm believer in the freedom of the press.” This statement was given by President Pervez Musharraf in his speech five days after the 1999 coup. During these years, he has been bragging about freedom of the press to convey a message to the international community about the amount of ‘freedom’ the press has in this country.”
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_OpinionNews.aspx?dtlid=88568&catid=11&date=03/23/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Cinemas observe 2nd strike |
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Film exhibitors closed their business on the second consecutive Thursday to protest against the government's failure to curb film piracy, a Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association (South Zone) official said. “All 54 cinemas in the southern circuit of the Pakistani film industry comprising Sindh and Balochistan remained closed, said Chairman PFEA (South Zone) Nadeem Mandviwala. He said 38 cinema houses in Karachi, eleven in the rest of Sindh and five in Quetta joined in the strike.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/23/local13.htm |
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Cinema owners for screening Indian flicks |
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The government should realise that the cinema industry is on the verge of destruction, and due to non-availability of local productions the screening of Indian films in local theatres should be allowed to save it from an impending collapse. Cinema Exhibitors Association Chairman Jahanzaib Baig said this at a meeting of cinema industry-related people held on Thursday at Gulistan Cinema.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/23/nat38.htm |
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Ahmad Ali Khan remembered |
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Former editor-in-chief of Dawn late Ahmad Ali Khan was paid rich tribute in the reference held at the Abdul Haq Campus' seminar hall by the Department of Mass Communication, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology here on Thursday. The reference was also addressed by Assistant Editor Dawn Muhammad Ali Siddiqui, senior journalist and columnist Saeed Hassan Khan, chairman of the Department of Mass Communication, Federal Urdu University Tauseef Ahmed Khan and lecturer of the department Muhammad Irfan.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/23/local22.htm |
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New address of The News bureau office |
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The office of The News Peshawar Bureau has shifted to new premises, however, its telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail address are the same. The address of new office of The News Peshawar Bureau is: Badshah Tower, Khyber Supper Market near Qayyum Stadium, Bara Road, Peshawar Cantt. Telephone numbers are: 5276227, 5271530 and 5271512; fax number: 5271612.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=2 |
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Obituary |
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A senior journalist and former president of Hyderabad press club, Saleem Qureshi, who died on Wednesday night at the age of 81 was laid to rest in Bhatti Goth graveyard here on Thursday.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=2 |
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