Tag: Safma

LHC directs LDA to unseal SAFMA office

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday ordered the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to unseal South Asia Free Media Association's (SAFMA) office, a local...

LHC declines SAFMA’s request for immediate de-sealing of office, seeks reply...

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday declined a request for the immediate de-sealing of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) secretariat and sought...

LDA seals SAFMA secretariat over ‘illegal commercial activities’

--FMF denies LDA’s claims, labels action 'attempt to bar SAFMA, FMF from efforts for freedom of media' LAHORE: Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Tuesday sealed the South Asian...

SAFMA, Lahore Press Club condemn Shujaat Bukhari’s murder

LAHORE: On the call of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), journalists and Lahore Press Club leaders staged a demonstration to condemn the brutal murder...

11th ‘World Autism Awareness Day’ observed without govt support

LAHORE: The eleventh “World Autism Awareness Day” was observed on Monday by the civil society, non-government organisations (NGOs) and parents of the affected children, without any...

No military solution of Afghanistan issue: Aziz

Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Saturday stressed that there exists no military solution of the Afghanistan issue. He said...

National security cabinet committee bodes well for peace: seminar

Speakers at a seminar organised on Saturday under the banner of South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) termed the establishment of a cabinet committee...

Indian president lauds SAFMA’s efforts for promoting SAARC agenda

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has lauded the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) for its efforts for promoting the South Asian Association for Regional...

SAFMA, SAMC demand media’s freedom in election coverage

South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) have urged the authorities in the country to ensure media’s freedom in...

SAFMA underlines historical, cultural and social ties

Journalists from SAARC countries met at SAFMA’s 8th South Asian Free Media Conference, A Vision for South Asia and Union: Opening minds, Opening Borders,...

SAFMA condemns death plot against Hamid Mir

South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and Media Commission-Pakistan on Monday expressed concern at an attempt on the life of senior journalist and anchor...

Seminar conducted on “Intellectual Vigilantism in the name of piety”

Speakers at a seminar concluded on the other day that it was not for the courts or the governments to decide by which code...

SAFMA launches new initiatives for media and peace

Free Media Foundation signed a 1.4 million dollar two-year contract with Royal Norwegian Embassy to support South Asian Free Media Association’s (SAFMA) program “Media...

Award winner movie ‘Scent of a Woman’ screened at SAFMA

Featuring a triumphant performance from the king of braggadocio, Al Pacino, Martin Brest’s comedy-inflected movie ‘Scent of a Woman’ is a minor masterpiece of...

SAFMA, MC-P disappointed with Saleem Shehzad probe findings

The South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and Media Commission-Pakistan have shown dismay over reports that a judicial panel probing into journalist Saleem Shahzad’s...

‘Military reluctant to share power’

The politicians, intellectuals and journalists, in a seminar titled ‘Civil-military relationship in a parliamentary democracy’ on Friday, said that the political forces in the...

‘South Asia can be biggest economic powerhouse by 2035’

SAFMA held a special conference with reference to the SAARC charter day, where eminent speakers, including Dr Rasool Bakhsh Raees, Dr Akmal Hussain and...