Sunday August 27, 2006

CPNE meeting

A meeting of the Standing Committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) will be held on August 28 (Monday) in Quetta to discuss government-press relations in Balochistan and other parts of the country. According to a press release issued on Saturday, President CPNE Arif Nizami will chair the meeting where Governor Balochistan Owais Ahmed Ghani would give a briefing to the editors of national newspapers on situation of press in the province.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=4

Japanese journalists visit Gandhara civilisation sites

The Kushan Emperor Kanishka in the first century AD had constructed the tallest Stupa 550 feet tall over the relics of Buddha in his capital Peshawar which was the wonder of the Buddhist world.
http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_NatNews.aspx?dtlid=56057&
catid=2&date=08/27/2006&fcatid=14

In the Line of Fire':

Officials served notice to stop launch of Musharraf's book

Advocate MD Tahir has sent legal notice to the National Assembly speaker, Cabinet Division federal secretary and the federal law secretary to stop the launch of President General Pervez Musharraf's book 'In the Line of Fire'. The lawyer in his notice has raised various questions asking whether the Constitution allowed a serving general to write a book.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_CityNews.aspx?dtlid=56069&
catid=3&date=08/27/2006&fcatid=14

Dr Waqar new APP Lahore BC

Dr Waqarullah Chaudhry Saturday assumed charge as Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Lahore bureau chief. Dr Waqar, who has a PhD degree in Mass Communication, replaced Syed Fawad Hasmi, who has been made APP foreign correspondent in London , the United Kingdom .

http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_CityNews.aspx?dtlid=56085&
catid=3&date=08/27/2006&fcatid=14

Letters to Editor:

No coverage

This year's torrential downpour has had a devastating effect in NWFP that is now being called by some as the ' Northwest Flooded Province '. Today, people are shelterless and above all vulnerable to epidemic diseases. When the floods hit Punjab , the media extensively covered it but in the case of NWFP this is not happening.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=11

REGIONAL MEDIA:

Curbs on media

MEDIA companies in the US face unreasonable government restrictions on their activities. Yet for the Federal Communications Commission, rewriting the ownership limits for television and radio stations has been a labour fit for Sisyphus. The commission updates the rules every few years, as required by law, only to have a federal appeals court or Congress smack them down.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/27/op.htm

SOURCES:

The News: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/

The Nation: http://www.nation.com.pk/

Daily Times: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/

The Dawn: http://www.dawn.com

Spider: www.spider.tm

BBC South Asia : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/

Herald: http://dawn.com/herald/

Aurora : www.aurora@dawn.com

The Economist: www.economist.com

IFEX: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/158/

Jang: http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/

Nawa-i-waqt: http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk

Khabrain: http://www.khabrain.com

Daily Development News: http://asp.isb.sdnpk.org/

The Post: http://www.thepost.com.pk/

Business Recorder: http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org

Asia Media: www.asiamedia.ucla.edu

PEMRA: www.pemra.gov.pk

States Man: http://www.statesman.com.pk

Frontier Post: www. frontierpost .com.pk

Compiled by , Sajid Gondal Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan .

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