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Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) initiated an action against more than 100 illegal, unregistered satellite TV channels being on-aired through cable distribution networks all across the country. These illegal / unregistered channels were not only violating PEMRA laws but also were incurring huge financial losses to the [Continue]
Islamabad: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Regional Office, Peshawar Thursday shut down three illegal FM radio stations operational in northwestern town of Swabi, found spreading extremism among madrassa students and residents. These FM radios were operating in the madrassas and were instigating terrorism and extremism among their [Continue]
ISLAMABAD: Electronic media managers from eight prominent television channels have evolved first-of-its-kind voluntary framework to standardize professional guidelines regarding coverage of terrorism and agreed not to show horrific images of bodies and wounded people during the live coverage of terror attacks. According to a press release issued [Continue]
Reporters Without Borders Tuesday said it was alarmed by the situation in the Swat valley as the Pakistani armed forces step up their operations against the Taliban there. Newspapers had already stopped publishing after the military imposed a curfew. Now journalists are fleeing to safer areas. The Khyber Union of Journalists today urged the [Continue]
Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child on Thursday launched a documentary video on juvenile justice system in Pakistan. The 25-minute video entitled “Detention as a Last Resort” is directed by Nukhbat Malik, an Islamabad-based journalist, her first on child rights. [Continue]
Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at the murder Wednesday in the Swat valley of a journalist whose body was found shortly after he covered a “peace march†related to an agreement biding the authorities to implement Sharia law there. On the same day a score of armed and masked men blew up the press club [Continue]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has blamed callous management at Channel-5, a private TV station in Pakistan, which contributed to the death of a cameraman who killed himself after his employer refused to pay his salary. [Continue]
