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Pakistan Media Mirror |
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Media Mirror: 10-09-2007 |
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Attack on Media
Intimidation
Journalists victimized at Islamabad airport |
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On directives from higher officials, media persons were pushed out from airport vicinity. Before the arrival of exiled leadership, security forces seized the airport. Security officials tortured some media persons, and tried to snatch their cameras.
(Express-8)
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Media disallowed coverage at Islamabad airport |
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Representatives of electronic media have been barred from the coverage at Islamabad International Airports. According to ASF officials, electronic media has been asked to remove its equipments from airport vicinity. Sources have told that only state media will be allowed to cover the arrival of exiled Prime Minister.
(Khabrian-1)
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Critique on Media
Why media not making hue and cry over foreign interference? |
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Rauf Kalasra reports, “Where is the otherwise very vocal and aggressive media that could tell those foreigners to stop interfering in our affairs? The media seems to have sold its soul to these foreign nationals, said Mohammad Shoiab, an angry Pakistani.
(News-10)
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Media Miscellaneous
‘Musharraf more tolerant than Benazir, Nawaz’ by Ansar Abbasi |
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“But as a mediaperson, one’s foremost concern is if Nawaz Sharif, who is today the most popular leader in Pakistan, has learnt the art of tolerance. It has been our irony that the tolerance level of both of our top two political leaders and the former prime ministers – Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto – has been generally low. The electronic media is a recent phenomenon in Pakistan. The private television channels have though experienced turbulent times and extreme pressures during the recent judicial crisis, they still did not spare the president and the government for any lapse. What we today see in the television channels was unthinkable before. Ham Sab Umeed Say Hain could be quoted as one example. By the way what is not said in the “talk shows”.” |
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=10030 |
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Department heads cannot talk to media any more? |
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All high-ranking officials of different government departments have been prohibited from disclosing any kind of information to the media by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad. He issued these directives through provincial ministers to all department heads, Sindh Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Director General (DG) Abdul Malik Ghauri told Daily Times. “Provincial Environment Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed told me that Ibad had directed all heads of government departments to stop talking to any media representative,” he said.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\09\10\story_10-9-2007_pg12_6 |
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APP staffer’s house looted |
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Some unidentified people Sunday entered the house of Muhammad Asif, a staffer at the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP)'s here in Ghauri Town and looted valuables worth Rs 300,000. The culprits sprayed chemicalson the house mates and they fainted. They fled with the valuables, including gold ornaments.The residents of Ghauri Town have appealed to the SSP Zaffar Iqbal to direct the local police station to start patrolling in the area.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=117272&catid=17 |
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Compensation for quake-hit journalists’ families |
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An amount of Rs 25,000 each will be given to the families of the journalists, who lost their lives in the earthquake, said Justice Ghulam Mustafa, chairman, Jammu Kashmir Press Foundation, while addressing a meeting of the Board of Governors. He said Sunday that steps would be taken to make the Foundation more effective. The amount of Rs 25,000 would be given to those journalists who were members of the Press Federation and died in the earthquake. He also assured of cooperation with the injured and disabled journalists for their treatment.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/NatNewsT.aspx?dtlid=117309&catid=2 |
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Kamal delivers lecture at Waqt headquarters |
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Al-Jazeera TV correspondent in Pakistan Kamal Hyder Sunday visited the Waqt TV headquarters, Lahore and delivered a lecture to its staff members.
(Nation-2)
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OIC issues code of ethics for Mass Media for member states |
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Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) has issued code of ethics for the mass media institutions and practitioners in its member states to safeguard the Muslim Ummah’s values and interests and to fulfill the objectives of the organization. According to the draft, Mass media institutions and practitioners in the OIC members states should abide by the ethical values of public trust, truth, fairness, integrity and independence while performing their duties. The preamble of the draft says that since Islam has a distinctive information method derived from the Qur’an, the Prophet’s tradition (Sunnah) and Islamic heritage, information in the OIC Member States must be founded on the guidance of islam in planning, implementation and appraisal, in order to strengthen the islamic Creed, Shari’a and morals in the lives of Muslims. Islam has a system of values that embodies an integrated group of political, economic, social and moral principles, constituting in their totality a special way of life, which has given Islamic cultural identity its distinctive traits. Therefore, it is important to raise public awareness in the OIC Member States and throughout the world on the tenets and values of Islam, including among the youth using various mass media channels. The draft call on to mass media institutions, including radio and television stations, satellite channels, print and online media organizations to foster the highest professional standards of journalism, promote public understanding and awareness about their worldly life while abiding by the ethical values and good behavioral conduct in taking charge of such duties.
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16240&Itemid=1 |
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Pakistani and Chinese journalists pledge to join hands to promote common cause |
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The journalists from Pakistan and China renewed the pledge to carry on joint efforts to promote Pak-China friendship through media endeavors to keep the Friendship Torch high. The resolve came up here last night when the journalists got together at a banquet, hosted jointly by the Chairman of Pak-China Media Friendship Association and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of People’s Republic of China in Islamabad Yao Jing. The event was attended by the founding members of Pak-China Media Friendship Association. It was the first-ever formal interaction between Pakistani journalists and Pakistan-based Chinese journalists.
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http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16239&Itemid=1 |
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Awards for writers, poets. |
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Halqa Arbab-e-Zoqe (Islamabad) gives ‘Appreciation Awards’ to those writers and poets who have done exceptionally well in their relative fields. ‘Nishan-e-Aizaz was given to reendowed poet Syed Zia Jalindhri, faction writer Mansha Yaad, Mohammad Hameed Shahid, poet, columnist and critic Akthar Usman and poet critic and secretary Halqa Arbab-e-Zouq Manzar Naqvi.
(News-19)
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Music
CD shop blown up |
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A CD shop was blown up by unidentified attackers near the Islampura area in Saidu Sharif late on Saturday night with an improvised explosive device. The blast also damaged some nearby grocery shops. The bomb was planted outside the shop. of Gul Shad situated in Fazal Bacha Market. Panic gripped the area as targeting of CD, barber shops and net cafes continued unabated in the district.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/10/nat22.htm |
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Singers switching over to other professions |
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Popular Pashto folk singers are switching over to other professions and businesses in the face of mounting hostility to music and growing trend of ‘Talibanisation’ in the Frontier province. The hostile environment in the province has forced many singers to say goodbye to music and try their luck in other businesses. “I have been singing for 25 years, but I have quit it and now I am running a food stall. It was the hostile environment that forced me to do so,” said Gulzar Alam, who was famous for his revolutionary songs and poems. Then clean-shaved, Gulzar who had once sung a song “Kala mey perzo shey pe bamoono Pekhawara” (I could never imagine Peshawar would be ever bombed), has now grown a beard and is running a property dealing business, besides running a chapli kabab shop. First, an unwritten ban was imposed on holding concerts by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government when it came to power five years ago and now growing attacks on music bands and the shops selling CDs and cassettes had created a sense of insecurity among singers, Gulzaar said. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/09/10/nat6.htm |
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Art
PNCA to promote culture among youth |
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The Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) has planned a variety of programs to promote cultural and traditional affinities among youth talented lot. These programs will be held at National Art Gallery.
(Post-A4)
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IPA to be completed till 2010 near Shakerparian |
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Naeem Tahir is not an unfamiliar name in the literary or art circles of the country; currently serving as the National Arts Gallery DG and the Pakistan National Council of Arts chief executive, it was his charismatic personality and dedication towards promotion of arts that the project of National Arts Gallery which had been facing extreme indifference for the past 20 years was completed in a record time of 600 days with an amount of Rs 456 million. State of the Institue of Performing Arts (IPA) building, with the covered area of 1,800 square yards, situated in the beautiful valley of Islamabad is a proof of his dedication. The Post got a chance to have a little chit chat with him over a cup of tea during which many interesting things were discussed which are being presented keeping in view the interest of our readers. |
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=117267&catid=17 |
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Telecommunication
Cell phones affect PCO business |
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The introduction of mobile phones has decreased the business of public call offices to a great extent. A little time ago the people used go to government telephone exchange offices to save their money by making convenient telephone calls. With the arrival of public call offices (PCOs), the government telephone exchanges lost their charm in the eyes of the customers as the people began to benefit from PCOs to communicate with their dear ones.
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http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=117268&catid=17 |
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Live for today, who cares about tomorrow? by Kamal Siddiqi |
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“PTCL is also the sale of a national asset at the cost of the public. Thousands of phones in most major cities lie dead. No one is interested in repairing them. After sacking a number of the lower-level technical staff, telephone exchanges do not have men to attend to routine complaints. Like KESC, PTCL’s complaint service is eyewash. Millions are being spent by the PTCL on advertisements but the quality of service is not poor, it is atrocious. But who to complain to?”
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=71619 |
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