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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Monday April 23, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Media Regulations
PEMRA serves notice on TV channel |
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The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has served a show-cause notice on Aaj TV, a private television channel, for airing news, talk shows and other programmes on the current judicial crisis and threatened it with closure. The authority has also sought an explanation from the chief executive officer of the television channel in person within three days to avoid a legal action. In a notice issued here on Sunday, it said that the TV channel had violated the Pemra Ordinance in its news, talk shows and programmes on an issue pending with the Supreme Judicial Council. The notice said that the channel had also failed to produce a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the external publicity wing of the ministry of information and broadcasting which was required for the processing of short-term uplinking licence. Pemra has also warned all private TV channels not to air programmes casting aspersions on the judiciary and “integrity of the armed forces of Pakistan,” besides contents which were likely to encourage and incite violence or contained anything against maintenance of law and order or which promoted anti-national or anti-state attitudes.
(Express-8)
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/23/top12.htm |
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Media Protest
Newsmen to protest over BBC correspondent abduction today |
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Journalists, friends and colleagues of the abducted BBC correspondent Alan Johnston will gather outside the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club Camp Office on Monday at 3pm for a vigil to call for his immediate release. Journalists around the world have rallied for Alan Johnston since he was abducted on March 12 at gunpoint in Gaza City, where he had been based as the BBC correspondent for the last three years.
(Dawn-13) (News-19) |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=93485&catid=17 |
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Music
Three music shops blown up in Swabi |
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A homemade bomb blew up three video and music shops in a market late Saturday in Swabi, about 100 kilometres northeast of Peshawar, police said. "It destroyed one shop and partially damaged two others, but there were no casualties as the market was closed," local police chief Fazal Elahi Badshah said. The blast occurred in the Gulzada Market which has some 80 shops of CDs, DVDs, tape recorders and also houses groups of bands usually hired to perform in wedding ceremonies, residents said. 'Hardliners' who say music and movies are un-Islamic have dubbed the shopping complex the "Hell market," they said.
http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=5494&fb_id=2&catid=14
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\23\story_23-4-2007_pg1_9
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=7368
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Internet
Net cafes mushrooming in Kalash area |
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Use of the Internet has become common in the district and amazingly the Kalash youths are far more adept at using the net than their Chitrali counterparts. The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) introduced the facility some seven years ago. The growing number of Internet cafes is a clear evidence that the number of people using the facility is constantly increasing. Last year there were 10 cafes in the city and this year the number has reached 20. Internet café owner Bashir Hussain told Dawn that besides students the majority of the users were in the age-group of under 25 and a large number of them had been their regular customers for six years. He said that his clients included students and the Kalash youth. Net café owners said the Kalash youths chat with foreigners with whom they had cultivated acquaintance during the latter’s visits to the Kalash valleys.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/23/nat18.htm |
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What is the govt doing to promote the IT sector? By Kaleem Omar |
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Data compiled by the State Bank of Pakistan shows that Pakistan’s IT export revenue totalled less than $50 million in fiscal 2004-05, rising to just under $75 million in fiscal 2005-06 - which is a tiny fraction of India’s estimated global IT revenue of $36 billion. According to the Pakistan Software Export Board, however, the size of Pakistan’s IT industry, including global export receipts, export earnings retained outside the country, domestic IT services and hardware, is "probably considerably understated." PSEB’s managing director, Yusuf Hussain, says that a BearingPoint study titled "Strategy for increasing exports of BPO" (prepared in October 2005) placed Pakistan’s global IT revenue in fiscal 2004-05 at around $400 million.
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http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2007-weekly/busrev-23-04-2007/index.html#1 |
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Books
Launch of Field Marshal Ayub’s diaries on May 4 |
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The launching ceremony of diaries of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan Pakistan’s first military ruler edited by Craig Baxter will be held in Islamabad on May 4.
(Dawn-15)
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Aalmi Mushaira spoiled by mismanagement |
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The Aalmi Mushaira held on Saturday night not only attracted a much smaller audience than previous years but also suffered on account of mismanagement on the part of the organizers. The organisers insisted that a change of the venue — from the National Stadium to the Federal Urdu University’s Gulshan campus — was behind the lukewarm public response to one of the premier cultural events of the city.
They, however, conceded that inadequate arrangements for the visitors and a defective sequence of recitals caused a large number of poetry enthusiasts to go away. The organisers found themselves in an awkward position when three leading poets from India declined to recite their poetry because their turn had come after the call for Fajr prayers.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/23/local2.htm |
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Concern over shortage of KU library staff |
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The students and teachers at the University of Karachi have expressed their resentment over the pathetic state of affairs in the Dr Mahmud Hussain Library. Borrowing books has become a herculean task for students because either the books are not available or there is not a sufficient number of attendents to issue them. The students use the archaic catalogue system to write the name of the books they want to borrow. The library attendant takes it and disappears into the labyrinth of the library and reappears after a considerable time to announce that the book(s) is not available at the moment. Some teachers narrated the same story to The News on Thursday.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=52608 |
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A celebration of books |
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is celebrating World Book and Copyright Day today to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The day was first celebrated in 1996 to recognise and honour writers and readers for their contribution towards bringing love and beauty to this disturbed and chaotic world. April 23 is a symbolic date for world literature because on this date, in the year 1616, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died. It is also the date of the deaths of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, Halldor K. Laxness, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Joseph Pla and Manuel Mej?a Vallejo. It was a natural choice for Unesco’s General Conference to pay a worldwide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone, particularly young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and gain a renewed respect for the irreplaceable contributions of those who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=52605 |
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Altaf donates brother’s house for digital library |
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MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has donated his brother’s house to establish an advanced and scientific library named as Nasir Arif Hussain Memorial Library in Federal B-Area Block 13 which would be inaugurated by Governor Sindh.
(Nation-3)
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ART
British artist accuses Alhamra admin of mistreatment |
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A female artist who came all the way from England for an exhibition at Alhamra Art Centre has told harrowing tales of mistreatment at the hands of people engaged by the Alhamra administration for different assignments. After getting the information through internet, Naheed contacted the Alhamra administration who encouraged her to exhibit her paintings at the gallery. “They told me that everything will be taken care of including handling of my paintings, display matters and the event coverage in media,” Naheed said talking to The Nation. But as the events unfolded, Naheed started thinking that she would have been better off had she opted for another venue instead of Alhamra.
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/apr-2007/23/localnews6.php |
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Telecommunication
Cell phone sites to be re designed |
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Around 3 per cent cell sites currently installed in major cities of the country by mobile phones operators might be re-designed or improved under a policy unveiled to check their hazards a senior official of IT Ministry said here Sunday.
(News-20)
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Media Blah Blah
Police failed to trace culprits of robbery in journalist’s house |
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In spite clear instructions from Prime Minister Shukat Aziz, police failed to trace culprits of a robbery in a journalist’s house. Police failed to show any visible development even after a month of incident. A month ago the house of a journalist Syed Rizwan Mujtaba was robbed by unknown thieves.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-2)
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Government believes in press freedom syas Durrani |
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Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammadl Ali Durrani saud that government believes in freedom of press and presently media is enjoying full freedom in Pakistan. Talking to PTV , he said credit goes to General Musharraf as government resist every step, which could suppress the freedom of media.
(News-9) (Express-1)
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Journalists should be responsible |
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Secretary Information NWFP Muhammad Afzal Khan has asked media community to work with professionalism as media is a sensitive profession, and journalists are important segment of society. It is the duty of journalists to highlight issues. Positive reporting can help the government to eliminate evils from society. He was addressing a reception during his visit to Dera Press club.
(Aaj-8)
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Announcement
Media Times Group’s Urdu paper coming soon |
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Media Times Groups the publisher of Daily Times has decided to launch Urdu paper ( AAJ KAL). It will be launched very soon. Najam Sethi will be the Chief Editor of new Urdu newspaper. AAJ KAL will be published from Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
(Daily Times-1)
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Obituary
M. H. Panhwar the ‘one-man’ Sindhologist passes away |
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Scholar, agriculturalist and water expert Muhammad Hussain Panhwar passed away Saturday at his residence in Latifabad, Hyderabad at the age of 82, PPI reported Sunday. “Five minutes before his death he was working on a chart of climate changes in Sindh,” said his wife Farzana while talking to Daily Times Sunday. “He was working manually, not on the computer. He finished his work and died within five minutes.”
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\23\story_23-4-2007_pg12_5 |
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