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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Thursday August 30, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Journalist deprived of cash at gunpoint |
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Some unidentified persons the other night harassed a journalist and deprived him of cash and cell phone at gunpoint at busy Sir Syed Chowk and made good escape. Syed Muzammil Hussain shah president of Press Association of Supreme Court and correspondent of local Urdu daily, was on his way home along with his spouse. Two unidentified men with veiled faces stopped him, on resistance one person slapped him while other took pistol and snatched his cell phone, cash and fled from scene. Journalist has lodged FIR with airport police station against outlaws. Emergency meeting of press association of Supreme Court has condemned the incident.
(News-14)
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Media Regulation
Television Licenses to six TV Channels and two mobile phone channels |
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In a function held in Pemra headquarters, six television channels were awarded television licenses under the Cross Media law. The channels included M/s Kashish TV Network (KTN News), Karachi, M/s Dolphin Media (Pvt.) Ltd. (Sindh TV News), Karachi, M/s Air Waves Media (Pvt.) Ltd. (News One), Karachi, M/s Apna TV Channel (Pvt.) Ltd. (Apna News), Islamabad, M/s AVT Channels (Pvt.) Ltd. (Khyber News and K-2), Islamabad, and M/s Zam Tv Network (Pvt.) Ltd. (Zam Television), Karachi.
Brand Promotion Services (Pvt.) Ltd., Karachi was given a mobile phone license which would operate under an agreement with Telenor while Cellevision (Pvt.) Ltd., Islamabad was awarded a mobile phone license which would operate under an agreement with Mobilink mobile phone company for one-year each.
(Khabrian-3) |
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15602&Itemid=1 |
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Media Miscellaneous
Durrani urges media to keep state, public interest supreme |
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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani Tuesday urged the media to keep the interest of the state as well as public supreme while discharging their duties. “If you guarantee to keep the public and national interest supreme, I assure you that no future regime would be able to suppress your freedom. I assure you that we would not introduce any policy aimed at containing the media freedom. This freedom is going to stay as this is in the best national and public interest,” the minister told reporters after distributing Television Licenses to six TV Channels and two mobile phone channels here at the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Headquarters. Flanked by Chairman PEMRA Iftikhar Rashid and other high ranking officials of the PEMRA, the Minister said that the government was taking bold initiatives to take the press freedom to such a level that no future regime would be able to reverse this process.
(Khabrian-3) |
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15602&Itemid=1 |
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Durrani to open National Conference of APP Correspondents |
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The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) is organizing an exclusive gathering of its district correspondents from all across the country here on Thursday. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani would inaugurate the first-ever National Conference of APP Correspondents, which is spread over three sessions. The day-long sitting is being organized in pursuance of the vision of President Pervez Musharraf to make public and private sector media more vibrant, dynamic and independent.
(Khabrian-3)
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15608&Itemid=1 |
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Attique for freedom of press |
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The prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan Wednesday said that his government was fully committed to provide all possible facilities to press and electronic media. He was addressing at an inaugural function of a private channel in Mirpur (AJK).
(News-5)
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APNS concern over hawkers partial boycott |
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The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) reviewed the situation of partial boycott of hawkers on August 15 and considered measures to prevent repetition of the situation in near future at meeting of its Distribution, Wholesale and Marketing Committee held on August 28 in Lahore. Arif Nizami convener of the committee chaired the meeting. The committee expressed its displeasure that despite agreement by the Akhbar Faroosh federation accepting that no closed holidays on August 15 and December 25, some of its component unions disrupted the distribution of newspapers on August 15.
(Nation-5) (Khabrian-8)
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Media should help end child labour |
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Speakers at the workshop of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and International Labour Organisation said on Wednesday that the media should help in making society realise that child labour should be eliminated. The workshop was held to build the capacity of journalists from print media and was titled ‘Activating Media in Combating Worst Forms of Child Labour in Pakistan’. MediaMark arranged the workshop. National project manager of ILO Saba Mohsin Raza, chief guest and director general of Public Relations Punjab Farrukh Mahmood Shah, columnist Javed Chaudhry, columnist Munno Bhai and an official Iftikhar Mahmood Randhawa spoke at the occasion.
(Dawn-12) |
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\30\story_30-8-2007_pg7_34 |
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Sadia Kazmi accuses SHO Defence of concocting FIR |
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Sadia Kazmi, wife of freelance journalist Muhammad Iqbal Kazmi, alleged that SHO Defence did not register FIR based on her statement. The SHO detained her and her brother-in-law Imran Shahzad in a separate room and produced a concocted statement of his own choice. She was addressing a press conference at cafeteria of the Sindh High Court on Wednesday. She informed the journalists that copy of the FIR was given to her besides the SHO Defence Asif Jakhrani forcibly took her signature on three different papers.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=70199 |
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Durrani Media colony |
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Aaj columnist Salahuddin comments, “Chief Minister NWFP should take urgent notice of obstacles, hurdling the development of media colony. It is learnt that bureaucracy is making an issue of plot size. CM should take necessary steps to remove hurdles.
(Aaj-3)
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Quetta Media colony |
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Amjad Aziz Bhatti repots that Chief Minister Balochistan has assured media community to develop a media colony for them in Quetta. He announced to set up a special fund for the welfare of media community. Media men have urged chief minister to take prompt steps towards establishment of media colony.
(Nawa-i-Waqt- Qumi Ufaq)
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Unity needed among hawkers |
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Tikka Khan President Akhbar Faroosh Federation Pakistan has urged hawkers’ community to show unity. He was addressing a ceremony in Gujar Khan. He welcomed induction of new hawkers to Akhbar faroosh federation Pakistan, who announced the joining in function.
(Express-2)
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Responsibility of media and our society |
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The Express columnist Raees Fatima comments, “Media role is very important in our society. Media should educate morality to our new generation. It is duty of media to train our youth to pay respect to our elder generation.
(Express-Column)
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Radio
FM Listening | FM channels listless without RJs by Sehrish Wasif |
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“Some prominent voices of City FM 89 are vanishing slowly and steadily. First it was Sohail Hashmi and now it is Ayesha Alam. No doubt, both of them played a key role in boosting the listener ship of the channel. However, Mr Hashmi before leaving the channel informed his fans about that but, unfortunately, Ayeasha Alam after ruling over listeners' hearts for many years decided to make a silent and sudden departure.”
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=115286&catid=17 |
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Music
JUI-F asks for closure of video, CD shops |
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The JUI-F has asked for closure of video and CD shops in the area otherwise it warned of action against them. A meeting of the JUI-F, held with Maulana Ahmad Ali Shah in the chair, expressed concern over the growing number of video and CD shops as well as use of dish antenna.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=70215 |
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Blasts destroy 4 video shops in Matta |
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Blasts razed four video shops to ground in Matta, Swat, Wednesday, Geo News reported. Several nearby shops were also damaged. The incident heightened fear among music shopkeepers of the area.
(News-1)
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Telecommunication
PTA to take action against mobile cos |
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Mobile phone companies failing to update the records of respective sold connections according to the given deadline would be facing music since the Interior Ministry has been insistently seeking stringent PTA action in this regard, sources said. Pakistan Telecom Authority has already asked the mobile operators to put their database of so far issued SIM cards in order and send it to National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) for verification by August 31, 2007. According to the sources, the ministry has been considering that the mobile phone sales sans records was a lacuna facilitating the terrorists to operate through such unrecorded or issued on a fake ID cell-phone numbers. Although PTA authorities admit that an estimated 20 per cent of the 60 million total connections are fake or vague, they differ from the interior ministry’s vantage point of checking sales of mobile phones, the sources added. On the contrary, the PTA high-ups believe that the mobile phones have rather been helpful, through tracker and other such devices in nabbing criminals including terrorists trying to network through cell-phones, the sources said. They further informed TheNation that the PTA pleads with the interior ministry that nowhere in the world record keeping of cell-phone sales is as stringent as in Pakistan.
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http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/aug-2007/30/bnews1.php |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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