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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Friday July 27, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Police interference in press club affairs |
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Journalists warns of protest demonstration
In Charsada, Local journalists have warned that they would stage a protest demonstration in front of the governor house and IGP office if Charsada police did not stop interference in matters of Charsada Press Club. The decision was taken in a meeting held here Thursday. They demanded the concerned authorities to take action against police officials who started creating differences in journalists. Also they demanded reopening of club according to court verdict.
(News-2)
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Journalists shocked at restoration of suspended SHO |
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A wave of fear, panic and disappointment gripped the journalists community with the news of restoration of Adrees Rathore, police inspector, who was suspended earlier on charge of implicating a local daily crime correspondent in a fake FIR under Section 302 , it was learnt Thursday late night. In the final report of the members of inquiry team, it was revealed that various investigative stories by the crime correspondent had unearthed vital clues leading to the proposition that Rathore executed extra judicial killings of two young men, allegedly involved in the murder of Raja Akram in the Bari Imam Murder case. After he was fount guilty of charges levelled against Inspector Rathore, he was suspended from his position by the IG, Islamabad. However, fear and panic had gripped the journalist community with the restoration of Idrees Rathore as he was given charge of ACLC Islamabad.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_ShortNews.aspx?shortid=4147&catid=2&date=07/27/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Ban
PEMRA closes unlicensed FM broadcast in AJK |
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The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has closed transmission of an illegal FM radio station operating from Bagh, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), PEMRA spokesman Muhammad Saleem told Daily Times on Thursday. Saleem said the authority had taken action on Wednesday with the assistance of local administration and police. He said during the operation, PEMRA enforcement team impounded the equipment and sealed the premises of un-authorised FM radio broadcast in Bagh, The Communicators (Pvt) Ltd under the guise of ‘FM Radio Power 99’. He said PEMRA had granted license to the company during the October 8, 2005 earthquake, but despite expiry of its validity the company was illegally running the transmission. He said in a similar action last month, PEMRA had closed three illegal FM radio stations and one satellite TV operating from various parts of AJK. The authority is committed to undertaking necessary legal action against violators under relevant PEMRA laws, he added. He said PEMRA and the AJK government had awarded six new licenses for FM radio stations to meet education, information and entertainment needs of the people of the area.
(Dawn-18) ,
DailyTimes,
TheNews |
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Media Miscellaneous
Pesco hails electronic media association |
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Pesco Chief Executive Sakhi Marjan and Public Relations Deputy Director Shaukat Afzal hailed the establishment of Peshawar Electronic Media Association (PEMA). They congratulated the members of newly-formed committee under the chairman of Abdullah Jan and Secretary Zahir Sherazi. They hoped that the committee members would work with professional zeal and devotion and would continue to keep update the public about the fresh news and events through electronic media.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_NatNews.aspx?dtlid=109450&catid=2&date=07/27/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Asr prayers in Lal mosque |
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A journalist bearing beard led Asr prayers and after the prayers in lal mosque, journalists and local administration officials prayed for those souls who died during Lal Masjid operation. A large number of journalists were present during the prayers including security forces. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_MainNews.aspx?bdtl_id=6632&fb_id=2&catid=14&date=07/27/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Radio
Radio Mirpur to air quality entertainment |
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Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur has begun airing quality entertainment and informative programmes depicting the centuries old Jammu and Kashmir cultural heritage and current local, national and international affairs for its listeners, said Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur Station Director Aftab Mahmood on Thursday. He made the announcement while speaking at a farewell party hosted by the radio’s news, programmes and engineering divisions in honor of News Editor Zafarul Haq and Engineering Manager Shujaat Ali Khan who were transferred to Radio Pakistan, Islamabad, and Radio Pakistan, Khuzdaar, Balochistan respectively. Mahmood said the programmes had attained exceptional popularity among people not only in the district, but also among other parts of the country, including AJK. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\27\story_27-7-2007_pg7_41 |
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‘Hourly traffic updates on FM soon’ |
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New CTO says fine collection through credit, prepaid cards to be launched soon
The City Traffic Police is planning to introduce an hourly traffic situation update service on FM transmission, newly appointed Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Ghulam Mohammad Dogar told a press conference at the SSP’s office on Wednesday. Dogar said the bulletin would cover the situation of traffic on the city’s main roads and their sub arteries. He said the service would also recommend alternate routes in case there was a traffic jam on a road. Dogar said the traffic police department was also planning on introducing a new fine collection system through credit cards, prepaid cards and courier services. He said the old fine-collection system was outdated and was helping road-corruption. He said the new options that the traffic police were planning to start were: payment through credit cards, prepaid cards that would be available in the market and paying the fine in allocated banks (the existent way of paying traffic fines). In the last option, the violator would receive his/her confiscated documents through courier.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\26\story_26-7-2007_pg13_1 |
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Movies
Awarapan’s success to herald revival of cinema in Pakistan: Sohail Khan |
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Film producer and distributor Mohammad Sohail Khan expressed hope that the success of his latest film, Awarapan, will help the revival of cinema in Pakistan. A question and answer session was held for journalists, who were invited to attend a press show of the film at Nishat Cinema.
Sohail Khan is on tour to promote his film in Pakistan. He came to Karachi after visiting Lahore, where he revealed that 18 cinemas of the country are screening the film and so far, he has received positive responses from all quarters. In response to a question, he said that he is a Pakistani and has a right to market any product that he makes or launches — regardless of the country of production — in Pakistan.
He said that he did not think Awarapan is an “Indian” film since the co-producer of the movie is a Pakistani and it also has Pakistani singers.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4 |
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Art
Opening of art gallery eagerly awaited |
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The inauguration of National Art Gallery has become as inconsequential as its construction was 16 years ago. Lost in a maze of half truths and unfulfilled promises, artistes and current curators associated with the gallery are more frustrated today then they were when truckloads of waste, slush and human filth accumulated at the site while the project gathered dust because art was never a priority with successive government.
(News-20)
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Theater
Stage dancer Karishma shot dead by car-riders |
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Four car-riders gunned down 22-year-old well-known stage dancer Karishma Shah here in the Sabzazar graveyard on Thursday evening, police sources said. The young stage dancer Karishma had been receiving life threats from the killers for the last several months, police investigators said. “She was not giving response to the repeated calls of the killers as they were inviting her for a dance party,” another police investigator revealed. The police said that Karishma visited the graveyard along with his maternal-uncle Saghir Abbas on Thursday evening. “She was bedecking her mother’s grave with flower petals when the assailants opened fire from a close range,” Abbas told reporters at the crime scene with sobbing eyes. |
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http://nation.com.pk/daily/july-2007/27/localnews2.php |
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SHC wants report on billboards from city agencies |
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The Sindh High Court sought Wednesday a detailed report from all cantonment boards, KPT, the CAA, the City District Government, the Sindh Government and others on the huge billboards installed in their areas which had collapsed in the recent storm, causing the deaths of several innocent people. It directed the agencies to furnish details about the number of billboards, their legal size and the number of deaths when they fell in the rains and ordered them to submit the bylaws on their installation.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\26\story_26-7-2007_pg12_7 |
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Installation procedures of hoardings discussed |
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A meeting to streamline the installation procedures of hoardings and billboards was held at Station Headquarters, Karachi, on Thursday. During the course of the meeting, the viabi1ity of the existing hoardings was discussed and it was decided that all structures will be removed by August 10, 2007, as their condition is doubtful after the recent storms. The participants of the meeting also deliberated on the criteria for the installation of hoardings and decided that no hoarding will be allowed on residential and commercial buildings. Only three categories of l0ft x 20ft, 15ft x 45ft and 20ft x 60ft will be allowed with maximum height of the hoarding from the ground, not more than 35 to 40ft. It was also decided that the Pakistan Engineering Council will certify all such structures and its certificate to this effect will be deposited by the advertiser along with the stakeholder. According to another decision, an expert will examine the gauge and strength of the sheet. Also, the minimum distance between two hoardings should not be less than 50 metres. The hoardings will be comprehensively insured to make up the loss of aggrieved parties in case of accidents. The Chief Executive Officers of cantonment boards, representatives of Commander Karachi (Comkar), the City District Government Karachi (CDGK), and officers for Corps Headquarters and Station Headquarters attended the meeting.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4 |
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Internet
Three-day cyber security moot starts |
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A three-day yearly Cyber Security convention that is taking place from July 26 to 28, is being regarded as the most smashing, exhilarating computer and cyber security event to have ever taken place in Pakistan. Local Hotel, which is where the event was organised, hardly survived PAKCON 3rd. |
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http://nation.com.pk/daily/july-2007/27/nationalnews7.php |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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