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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Tuesday October 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
Journalists protest abduction of colleague |
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The journalist community held a protest demonstration here on Monday against what they called the failure of the local Police to arrest the kidnappers of a local journalist. Some weeks ago, three motorway police officials reportedly kidnapped a local journalist Ghazanfer Ali for recording their 'deeds' and subjected him to physical torture.
Two hours after the abduction, the journalists met RPO motorway police and recovered the kidnapped journalist. The Sadar police registered a kidnapping case against three motorway cops, Shaar Gull,Tahir and one unidentified cop, after three days of the incident at the repeated requests of the journalists. One month after the filing of the case, the police have not yet taken any action against the kidnappers In their protest, the journalists appealed to DPO, RPO and IG Punjab police to order the arrest of the culprits and give them exemplary punishment. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNewsT.aspx?dtlid=125871&catid=2 |
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Media Unions
Bara press club office-bearers |
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Nasrullah Khan and Khiyalmat Shah were selected president and general secretary of the first governing body of the Bara Press Club of Khyber Agency, said a press release issued on Monday. Mohammad Iqbal Afridi was made senior vice-president, Qazi Rauf vice-president, Haji Badshah joint secretary and Nawab Khan finance secretary. The new body, chosen by 20 journalists, would work out a constitution for the press club and make rules and regulations. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/30/nat30.htm |
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Media Miscellaneous
No restrictions on media in Pakistan: Tariq Azim |
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Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Senator Tariq Azim Khan on Monday said that media in Pakistan is enjoying a complete freedom unparalleled in the history of the country and there is no restriction, censorship on it in the country. Talking to a 6-member Kazakhstan media delegation, which called on him here, the minister said that there has been a mushroom growth of TV channels and newspapers in the country due to the liberal policies of the government. He, further, said that there was only one television channel in the country five years ago but now there are about 55 channels and more than 100 newspapers in the country.
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19737&Itemid=1 |
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Javed Jabbar has no injuries from his hotel room fall |
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Former senator and information minister Javed Jabbar, who accidentally tripped and fell in his hotel room Sunday, was declared injury-free by doctors here. “I am fine,” Jabbar told APP after undergoing a checkup at a hospital where he was taken after his nasty fall. Doctors examined him for a suspected broken rib, but the tests showed no injury and he was allowed to go his hotel. Javed Jabbar has no injuries from his hotel room fall Jabbar, who is accompanied by his wife, is in New York in connection with post-production work on a film. He is a leading light in Pakistan’s media, film-making and advertising world.
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19696&Itemid=1 |
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Radio
Radio Pakistan fire |
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The main part of the century-old Radio Pakistan building, where a huge fire gutted all 14 studios and destroyed equipment and instruments on Sunday, is intact and the base structure of the devastated portion is repairable. Passing on this piece of information to Dawn on Monday, sources said the gutted portion was not the part of the main building housing the Karachi station of Radio Pakistan since 1949. Meanwhile, a five-member team of the Karachi Building Control Authority inspected the Radio Pakistan building to assess its status. KBCA chief Rauf Akhtar Farooqi told Dawn that the inspection committee, comprising three structural engineers, a civil engineer and an architect, would submit its report within two days. Mr Farooqui, who also visited the building on Monday, said the two-storey main building had an RCC (reinforced cement concrete) roof while the gutted portion’s roof was made of steel trusses with a false wooden ceiling.
”In my personal opinion, the base structure of the gutted portion, which is attached to the main building, is repairable and there is no threat to the structure,” he said, adding: “Let the inspection committee’s report come”. Iqbal Azam Faridi, station director of the Radio Pakistan Karachi, told Dawn that the fire did not cause any damage to either the archival material or sound record as the library was safe. However, he said the losses of infrastructure and the equipment were huge. “In the VIP studio, a historic chair used by the first prime minister of Pakistan was also partially damaged.” |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/30/local2.htm |
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Radio Pakistan premises |
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A controversy has erupted over the land ownership after Sunday’s raging fire in the Radio Pakistan building, which gutted 15 studios. The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is the owner of this land worth billions of rupees and is considering occupancy of this land after the huge fire. Reports doing the rounds are that some elements have become active in an effort to shift Radio Pakistan’s Karachi office to a new building in Gulshan-e-Iqbal opposite the Civic Centre. The present premise is rented out to the AG Sindh Building. CDGK sources maintain that no one would be allowed to sell this prime land. The officials at that time claimed that the land of the present Radio Pakistan building and the Veterinary Hospital were owned by the District Local Government Board, Karachi, and later transferred to the District Council, Karachi. At that time, the late G.M. Syed used to sit in these two premises as President of the District Local Government Board. The land today is supposed to be owned by the city government. On the other hand, former officials of Radio Pakistan, Karachi, say that this land is owned by Radio Pakistan and was purchased either from the District Local Government Board, Karachi, or the District Council, Karachi, but have yet to produce documentary proof in this regard.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=77793 |
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The news editorial “ Radio Pakistan fire” |
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“While it is fortunate that the massive fire, which broke out on Sunday morning at Karachi's historic Radio Pakistan building, did not claim any lives, the damage that it has done, to both the equipment and the heritage site's interior, is extremely unfortunate. A senior fire officer has been quoted as saying that the building's status was now dangerous and that it will require complete renovation. Though disasters of this nature cannot be pre-empted. But the building was not properly equipped with safety measures and fire-fighting equipment, even though its wooden interior presented an obvious fire hazard. And this brings forward many questions. Firstly, while the building has housed Radio Pakistan for close to 50 years now, were adequate measures taken to ensure the safety of what is unquestionably a heritage site? It is being said that the cause of the fire was an electric short circuit, which always brings the negligence factor into the equation. Secondly, if government buildings themselves are not equipped with the necessary safety and fighting equipment, how can authorities preach such standards to private owners? This is particularly troubling given the spate of fires that the city has seen, which all, in one way or another, trace back to a case of being ill-prepared.”
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=77876 |
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Dawn Editorial “Fire at Radio Pakistan” |
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“The fact that several fires have erupted in different parts of the city of late, including two in the PNSC building, points to a weak administration that has been unable to emphasise the rules of fire safety or crack down on frequent violations of building laws. It is, nevertheless, a greater shame that after such frequent blazes no action should have been taken to reduce risks to national treasures such as the Radio Pakistan building where the level of destruction was limited in part due to its more sensible architecture planned during the colonial era. The library archives were saved this time and luckily a number of radio records are digitised. But one cannot rule out a similar calamity — at Radio Pakistan or in other places including public libraries — where carelessness, electrical defects or sabotage can lead to the destruction of records which are the basis of a nation’s identity. Ways and means will have to be found to preserve existing material in a form that cannot be easily destroyed. For manuscripts and sound tracks, computerisation offers one solution, while memorabilia such as the instruments that were destroyed in the blaze could form part of a well-guarded museum collection. After all, memories must be preserved at all cost.” |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/30/ed.htm#2 |
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Cinema
Cinema: A dying source of entertainment |
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The capital of Pakistan is deprived of even a single cinema theater to entrain residents. Now the situation has totally changed as no one is willing to invest in this business and if anyone is interested in Pakistani films, there is no government support to cinema owners. A report by Farehia Rehman.
(Nation-13)
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Telecommunication
Action against illegal SIMS likely |
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Use of multiple connections over same identity card or without identity cards has reached threatening limits as all the cellular companies have submitted reports regarding illegal SIMS “The News” learnt Monday.
(News-9)
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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