Tag: Media

An exhibition of mixed media paintings was inaugurated at the Nairang Art Gallery on Saturday. The exhibition features paintings of Mirza Bashir Ahmed and...

The media can play an extraordinary role in further strengthening the Pakistan-China friendship and people to people contacts, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad told...

National Assembly Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan warned the government on Tuesday to abstain from feeding wrong information to the media just to...

Mushtaq Malik, Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), resigned from his post on Friday. According to the media reports, the chairman sent his resignation...

Pakistan’s one-day captain Shahid Afridi replied to the show-cause notice issued to him by the Pakistan Cricket Board for statements about differences with the...

The Pakistan Cricket Board has sought reply from Shahid Afridi for giving controversial statements against the team management over selection issues in the West...

The statement published in The News on April 27 that PEMRA rules were intentionally amended to harm the Geo group are absolutely baseless and...

CAIRO - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was hospitalised this week due to a drop in blood pressure, and his condition is stable, state media reported late Saturday.
Mubarak, who is suspected of involvement in the deaths of anti-regime protesters, was previously reported to have suffered a heart attack during questioning by prosecutors on Tuesday.
But the MENA state news agency reported that the 82-year-old had suffered from a "steep decline in blood pressure" at the

ISLAMABAD - Speakers at a seminar here on Thursday highlighted the significant elements of reporting in a conflict situation such as responsibility, impartiality and accuracy, as these were prerequisites for reliable journalism. Speakers at the seminar titled "Role of Media in Conflict Situations", organised by Individualland Pakistan, a non-government organisation, here at a local hotel said that the media needed to play its due role in bringing people together and creating greater

KHANEWAL - One-day workshop for media professionals was held here in a local hotel to create awareness of the catastrophic situation and widespread destruction caused by the floods in the country. The workshop was organised by the provincial gender education team (PGET). Moneeza Hashmi and famous writer/poet Asghar Nadeem Syed were speakers and presenters on this occasion. They said that the flood-affected people in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan still need help in

KARACHI - Sindh Information and Archives Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon asked the secretary of his department on Saturday to empower the functioning of the media cell and float a summary to hire contractual staff for the chief minister's approval.
He was presiding over an introductory meeting with the senior officers of the Information Department. He also stressed the need for reactivating the print media monitoring system and ensure timely action on news items pertaining to

KARACHI - Bereft of heroes in our age and time, eager fans (relatives and children of ministers and bureaucrats) and an unruly media turned the congratulatory reception of the Green Shirts at the Chief Minister's (CM) House on Friday into real hell for our cricketing heroes.
The event was condemned to mismanagement soon after the Pakistan team arrived in the lawn of the CM House, with security personnel desperately trying to catch relatives and children of ministers and

LAHORE - Samsung Electronics, a global leader in digital media and digital technologies, recently received strong praise from Europe's leading Audio Visual Magazines for their Full HD 3D Smart TVs.
Top electronics and Audio Visual magazines in the UK like T3, What Hi Fi Vision & Sound and CNET UK all gave Samsung's Full HD 3D Smart TV 8000 series ranked the product highly in the areas of picture quality, design, 3D glasses, rear mounted downward firing stereo speakers, online

GUJRANWALA - The Individual-Land-Pakistan (IL-Pakistan), with the support of Friedrich-Naumann-Stifting, is striving to promote the concept of Free, Independent and Responsible Media (FIRM) in Pakistan.
The IL-Pakistan, as an active non-partisan group with a national foothold, along with FNF, is actively engaging with the media so that citizens and media could learn from one another. The media has come a long way and succeeded in its struggle to attain freedom as in the last

WASHINGTON - While the British are already overwhelmed by the media frenzy surrounding Prince William's wedding, coverage in the United States is just now heating up and will reach fever pitch in the week before the April 29 ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
"It's catching on pretty quickly in the US. There is a fascination and the degree of media coverage is really starting to pick up now on the networks," said Diane Hall, president of 2 For Life Media, a Canadian company that

ISLAMABAD - The incompetence and lack of professional understanding of the prime minister's media managers brought him yet another embarrassment by mixing up the dates of PPP founder Zulfikar Bhutto's death anniversary with the reception for the national cricket team. The PM's staff fixed April 4 for hosting PM Yousaf Raza Gilani's reception for the cricket team that was defeated by India in the cricket world cup semi final. A press release was issued to the media at noon, saying

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Thursday informed Senate that new media policy was being formulated and efforts were under way to give it a legal cover before June this year. Replying to supplementary questions during the question hour, she said that it has been decided that members of both the parliamentary committees on information and broadcasting, representative of media, civil society and all stakeholders would be taken on board for