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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Saturday October 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
Militants detain journalist for four hours |
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The supporters of pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah on Friday took hostage a senior reporter of a TV channel for four hours in Swat. Niaz Ahmed Khan, reporter for Khyber News, Pakistan’s only Pushto-language TV channel, was taken hostage at Imam Dheri, headquarters of the mullah. “My reporter was released after I contacted the top leaders of militants. I told them that Niaz is a professional journalist and not an undercover agent,” Khyber News senior producer Shaheen Buneri told Daily Times on phone from Mingora city. Niaz was taken hostage because the militants suspected him as an “undercover agent”, although he had showed them his press card, Buneri said. “He remained in the militants’ custody for four hours,” he added. |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\27\story_27-10-2007_pg7_42 |
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Clashes in Sawt |
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Press conference by NWFP home secretary Badshah Gul Wazir and inspector general police NWFP Mohammad Sharif Virk. “The top security official expressed his ignorance when asked if a member of the Jirga had been arrested after he was stopped from meeting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Wazir was also ignorant about a local journalist, Niaz Khan, who was said to have been taken hostage by the militants and later picked up by the security forces.”
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_default.asp |
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Gunship copters strafe militant positions in Sawt |
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“A private TV reporter was also detained briefly. He was handcuffed and all his belonging including camera was snatched.”
(News-8)
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Journalists criticize FATA administration |
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The journalists’ community in Bajur has criticized FATA administration for dividing the media persons in Khyber agency and warned of agitation against the authorities. The meeting criticized the FATA secretary security, Khyber agency political agent and bara assistant political agent for adopting policies to divide journalists. The meeting observed that NWFP governor gathered the media persons at a single platform but political administration were dividing them again.
(News-3)
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Media Unions
RIUJ polls on Jan 30 |
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Election for office bearers of Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists will be held on January 30, 2008. A committee headed by Waqar Sitti will work to finalize the list of RIUJ members, Bilal Dar and Abid Sajid will be other members of the committee. Annual membership fee Rs 260 inclusive card fee can be paid till October 30. Defaulters will not be included in the final voters list.
(Nawa-i-Waqt-2)
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Media Miscellaneous
PML(Q) Chief announces 10 marla plot for family of late cameraman. |
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President Pakistan Muslim League (Q), Ch Shujaat Hussain announced the grant of a 10 marla plot in Islamabad journalist society for the family of late ARY cameramman Arif Khan. Arif Khan lost his life in bomb blast while discharging his professional duty at the rally of PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto taken out on her return to Pakistan on October 18. |
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&limit=12&limitstart=12 |
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Official media giving full coverage to opposition: Durrani |
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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani has said that the government has set a new example of media freedom in the country and its credit goes to President General Pervez Musharraf. This has happened for the first time in the country that official media is giving full coverage to the opposition parties, he said at a press conference here on Saturday. “All of this is because we believe in speaking truth and conveying facts to the people through independent media”, he said.
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19591&Itemid=1 |
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Journalists’ colony in Murree likely |
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Tehsile Nazim Murree sardar Muhammad khan has said that residential colony for the journalists of murree would be established soon to tackle their residential problems. He was talking to a group of journalists.
(Nation-5) (News-5)
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US expert to train journalists on election coverage |
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Veteran US journalist and author Arnold Isaacs will conduct a series of training workshops and lectures for Pakistani journalists on election coverage, the US Embassy announced here Friday. The programme will be held at venues throughout Pakistan from Oct 28 to Nov 9. Kay Webb Mayfield, US Embassy Counsellor for Public Affairs on the occasion said, "The role of free press in a democratic society is always essential, but never more so than in reporting on elections. Journalists play a key role in informing the people of the choices available to them and encouraging them to participate."
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=125283&catid=17&date=10/27/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Internet
Internet cafe blown up |
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Some unidentified miscreants blew up an internet cafeteria with explosives in front of Engineering University on Friday. Police said some unidentified miscreants planted explosives at an internet cafe located on D.I. Khan Road in front of Engineering University. Resultantly the cafe blew up. However, no loss of life was reported due to its closure. The police have registered a case against unidentified miscreants and initiated investigation.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_NatNews.aspx?dtlid=125437&catid=2&date=10/27/2007&fcatid=14 |
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Television
AIOU to launch satellite TV |
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The Allama Iqbal Open University will launch a satellite TV channel to promote quality education especially in far-lung areas of the country. Speaking at a press conference, AIOU Vice Chancellor Mahmoodul Hassan Bhutt said the Planning Commission had approved the project worth Rs 390 million to launch the channel for its targeted population. He said the university would also establish more FM radio stations across the country and the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) was being consulted to work out arrangements in this regard.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=125276&catid=17&date=10/27/2007&fcatid=14 |
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TV production course launched for students |
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The Royal Embassy of the Netherlands launched an eight-week television production course for students from South Asia at the South Asian Media School in Lahore on Friday, says a press release. The Netherlands government has signed a Rs40 million agreement with the South Asia Free Media Association (Safma). This contribution has come about in close cooperation with the Norwegian embassy. The course is a part of the agreement. The course brings together television journalists from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Issues like ‘Peace and Media,’ ‘Fundamental Human Rights,’ ‘Empowerment of Women through Media’ and ‘Democracy and Electronic Media in South Asia’ will be discussed in the course. The partnership with Safma dates back to 2004, when the Netherlands and Norway embarked on a first round of cooperation with Safma, then the focus of Safma’s activities was on Pakistan-India relations, and it is exactly in that field that Safma has been able to deliver ground-breaking results. Safma is one of the relevant actors in bringing groups of people together in order to break to existing mutual perceptions. Its free media endeavours and its efforts in peacemaking and confidence building, first and foremost as power broker in the India-Pakistan relationship is unprecedented within the international family of press freedom campaigners. Safma is working on a regional agenda which is incomplete. Safma still has an important role to play and many challenges remain.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=77389 |
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Copyrights
HEC formulates new policy on plagiarism |
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To check Plagiarism, which is an intellectual crime, Higher Education Commission has formulated a Plagiarism Policy and sent it to all the four Chancellors of the Provinces for immediate implementation in the universities under their control. Plagiarism has been rampant among the faculty as well as students in the universities for several decades but no action was taken in the past to check this menace. The Higher Education Commission decided that this menace must be curbed through exemplary preventive and punitive actions. The aim of the Plagiarism policy is to apprise the students, teachers, researchers and staff about plagiarism and how it can be avoided. This policy is applicable to students, teachers, researchers and staff of all institutions and organisations in Pakistan who are involved in writing or publishing their work. A “Plagiarism Standing Committee”, will be formed in each university to review the cases of plagiarism, which will consist of 3 senior faculty member, a subject specialist, a nominee of the HEC and a senior student (only if a student is being investigated upon).
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http://nation.com.pk/daily/oct-2007/27/nationalnews8.php |
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International music investors tuning in |
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The International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and Motion Picture Association (MPA) have appreciated the government’s efforts in curbing music and film piracy and assured that big international companies would soon start investing in Pakistan. Director IFPI, Stefan Krawczyk addressing a press conference here Friday said the international companies were reluctant to invest in the past owing to weak enforcement of copyright law, fearing their investments would not pay back. The present government has shown strong political will and understanding to check piracy, he said. It has already closed down at least half a dozen illegal optical discs (CDs and DVDs) production plants, which were affecting both domestic and international repertoire.
IFPI represents the recording industry worldwide with over 1,450 members in more than 75 countries and affiliated industry associations in 48 countries, he said.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=77373 |
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