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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Tuesday November 27, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Media Protest
Journalists’ protest against, media blackout continues |
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Journalists staged Monday a protest in front of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club to press the government to restore the Constitution and judiciary forthwith. In continuation of their protest against emergency rule, Provisional Constitutional Order and restraints on the media, hundreds of journalists gathered in front of the camp office to record a peaceful protest. According to the schedule announced by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, the second street show of 'Capital Talk', a current affairs programme of a private TV channel, was held on the footpath in front of the camp office.
Pakistan People's Party leader Dr Babar Awan, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal leader Prof Ibrahim, General Secretary PFUJ Mazhar Abbas, senior journalist Nasir Zaidi, Rauf Klasra and Asim Sajjad Akhter were the participants of the talk show compered by a banned anchorperson. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/ShortNews.aspx?shortid=4924&catid=2 |
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Journalists continue protest |
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Journalists Monday continued protest against the restrictions on the private TV channels. They wore black armbands and held a meeting in the district press club. Speakers demanded immediate lifting of emergency and curbs on the TV channels.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNews.aspx?dtlid=130849&catid=2 |
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Journalists clamour for free media |
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In order to make the protest movement against curbs on the media more potent, the Peshawar-based journalists have evolved their future line of action under which a three-day protest camp will be set up in front of Peshawar Press Club from tomorrow (Tuesday). The protest camp, on the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, will be set up from 11:00am to 2:00pm daily and will be attended by journalists and people from all walks of life.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNews.aspx?dtlid=130919&catid=2 |
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Press club | You can’t say it enough |
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A member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan holds up a sign during a protest against military rule and President Musharraf on Monday. Members of the Karachi Union of Journalists also participated in the protest
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\27\story_27-11-2007_pg12_13 |
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Condolence meetings held for murdered journalists |
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The Mirpurkhas press club and national press club Mirpurkhas held separate condolences meetings here to condemn the murder of senior journalist Zubair Ahmed Mujahid. Speakers demanded the authorities to ensure immediate arrest of involved culprits.
(Daily Times-A3)
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KUJ sets up protest camp at KPC |
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The Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) under schedule announced by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) set-up a protest camp at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on its second phase of media movement that formally started on Monday. Different political party leaders, NGOs, trade unionists, lawyers and other groups of civil society visited the camp at the KPC which included Nafees Siddiqui of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Habibuddn Junedi trade unionist, Naeem Qureshi KBA General Secretary, Iqbal Haider of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and others expressed solidarity with the protesting journalists.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=83034 |
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Geo talk show on footpath |
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Audience say no to elections under emergency Journalists protest against curbs on media
Political parties have still not taken a decision on boycotting the forthcoming general elections in the country under emergency. However students, lawyers and civil society representatives were unanimous in saying ‘no’ to polls under emergency at Geo Television’s popular talk show ‘Capital Talk’ hosted on the footpath here on Monday. Programme host Hamid Mir asked a simple question: Should political parties participate in forthcoming general elections under emergency rule? But neither Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Senator Professor Ibrahim nor Pakistan People’s Party leader Dr. Babar Awan could say a firm ‘no’ or ‘yes’ to the question and gave answers in ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=83095 |
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Media Miscellaneous
Media to be facilitated during polls: Memon |
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Federal Information Minister Nisar A Memon Monday directed the Press Information Department to device a plan to facilitate the media to provide updates of the election results. The objective of the caretaker government is to facilitate free, fair and transparent elections and the Information Ministry has a prime responsibility in this context, he said during his visit to Press Information Department, according to issued press release.
(Nation-5) |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/MainNews.aspx?bdtl_id=8312&fb_id=2&catid=14 |
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Benazir felicitates CPNE President, office-bearers |
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Former Prime Minister and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto congratulated the newly elected President of Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors, Arif Nizami and other office-bearers. Benazir on Monday called Arif Nizami and hoped that he would play his role in pressing the government to lift curbs imposed on media in the wake of emergency, as he has been credited for doing so in the past.
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/nov-2007/27/index12.php |
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Letter to editor “Anti-state media” |
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Although media is very angry with the government at present but it should note the fact that it was the present government that gave freedom to journalists. There was no freedom during Nawaz and Benazir days, nor did the journalists could take a stand they have taken these days. The government also has some valid complaints against the media, which can be enumerated as under:
1. Some TV channels, newspapers and magazines have given (and are still giving) publicity to confirmed foreign-backed separatists from Balochistan and Sindh. One English daily published a photograph of Dr. Qadir Magsi holding a placard of Sindhu Desh. The same newspaper, in its weekly economic review, showed Pakistan in broken up condition due to some provinces gaining independence.
2. Geo TV is notorious for bringing anti-Pakistan elements on their ‘50 Minutes’ show where they endlessly go on with their rhetoric of ‘independence’ and the compere never stops them or condemns them. This is not freedom of expression, this is anti-sate activity. 3. When Bashir Qureshi stands up at a rally and demands Sindhu Desh, media does not condemn him, instead they publish his photograph and his anti-state harangues. |
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/nov-2007/27/letters3.php |
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Telecommunication
PTCL broadband services to all customers |
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Keeping in view the growing demand, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has decided to extend its broadband services to all the customers in the country. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/CorpNews.aspx?dtlid=130825&catid=8 |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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