News and Articles
Pakistan: Illusions of reality?
Dr. Moeed Pirzada
Khaleej Times, 10 January 2008
  Bhutto's Elimination: A US Defeat?
Dr. Moeed Pirzada
Khaleej Times, 3 January 2008
WE DON’T know if Pervez Musharraf was ever an avid reader of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary or played some roles in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but let’s....read more   ENAZIR Bhutto was a gifted progeny of a remarkable mind. Confronted by a three-decade long adversity and tragedy, she displayed an uncanny ability to....read more

 
C’Wealth, UK hail lifting of emergency
The News
December 16, 2007
  Journalists take to streets against media curbs
The News
December 15, 2007
Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon on Saturday welcomed the lifting of the state of emergency and the restoration of the Constitution in Pakistan....read more   The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has decided to stage a big protest demonstration in front of the President House at Islamabad against....read more

 
Constitution amended as emergency ends today
The News
December 15, 2007
  Future of 4500 GEO Employees in Limbo
The News
December 13, 2007
President Pervez Musharraf on Friday amended various articles of the Constitution providing protection and continuity to the superior courts judges who took oath under the Provisional.....read more   The Independent Media Corporation Private Limited and Birds Private Limited have filed a civil petition (941/2007 and 942/2007) for leave to appeal in the Supreme Court of Pakistan on.....read more

 

Normal service will not be resumed any time soon in Pakistan: Bronwen Maddox
Times Online, December 13, 2007

  Hope beyond the failure of boycott?
Dr Moeed Pirzada
Khaleej Times, December 13, 2007
President Musharraf says he will end the state of emergency on Saturday. That means nothing: one of his most damaging actions — the silencing.....read more   NAWAZ Sharif has finally decided to contest the polls. APDM has thrown PML(N) out — as if it really mattered at this point. While the protests in LUMS.....read more

 
GEO TV ban irks people at the grass roots
The News
December 12, 2007
  PEMRA warns broadcasters of punishment
The News
December 12, 2007
The entire civil society, its conscious representatives, print and electronic media journalists, students and masses continued to express their bewilderment.....read more   Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has warned private TV channels that despite advice and warnings issued from time to time.....read more

 
Union joins protests against clampdown on media freedom in Pakistan
National Union of Journalists, December 7, 2007
  HRCP calls for observing Dec 10 as 'black day'
Online News Agency
December 6, 2007
The NUJ has backed calls by journalists unions around the world for an end to the suppression of the media in Pakistan.....read more   The worst human rights abuses, in the history of the country, were recorded in 2007. The rights of ordinary people have been violated by the government....read more

 
Provincial supreme court rejects Geo TV's request for lifting of ban
Reporters Without Borders, December 6, 2007
 
  US envoy hopes Musharraf will lift emergency, PCO on Dec 16
DailyIndia, December 5, 2007
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the Sindh province supreme court's decision on 4 December to reject two petitions by the Geo TV group challenging a broadcast ban on its channels. The court ....read more   The US government had reiterated upon Musharraf to restore the transmission of Geo News without any further delay....read more

 
Musharraf PR team faces protest from Pakistanis in UK
Malaysia Sun
December 5, 2007
  GEO TV petition dismissed as non-maintainable by Sindh High Court
The News, December 05, 2007
London: Pakistanis living in London have mounted a counter campaign against the week-long visit of former ISI chief Lt-General (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi and former State Information Minister Tariq Azim....read more   GEO TV petition dismissed as non-maintainable by Sindh High Court After one month of hearing and promising to decided the case on 4th Dec, the honourable judge suddenly dismissed the petition....read more

 
Supreme Court Returns the petition challenging the closure of tv channels
The News, December 05, 2007
  Govt.retires 24 High Court judges
The News
December 05, 2007
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday returned the constitutional petition challenging the closure of TV channels as well as amending the provisions of the Pemra Ordinance 2002 with the objections that....read more   ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday issued a notification of retirement of 24 High Court judges who did not take oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO).
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Deposed judges get letters to vacate official residences
Umar Cheema, The News
December 05, 2007
  Mir Ibrahim Rahman
CEO GEO TV Network
Speech at the Lahore University of Management Sciences
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has allotted residences of deposed judges to newly appointed judges, who took oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO).
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Let me begin by thanking you!

I want to thank u for being young, for being Lums,for coming out here to listen.and for being part.....read more


 
Pak. doctors join movement to restore judiciary
The Hindu
December 4, 2007
  Pakistan: Charter of Media Freedom
The Editors Weblog
December 4, 2007
slamabad : Leading doctors of Pakistan have decided to join hands with protesting students, lawyers and civil society activists to demand the restoration of pre-emergency judiciary.....read more  

The media-persons from both the print and electronic media, representing various media bodies, various press clubs and journalist unions, writers and civil society representatives from across Pakistan have.....read more


 
Standing up for Media Freedoms
Editorial, The News
December 02, 2007
  Musharaaf urged to lift ban on GEO TV
Reporters Sans Frontiers's letter.
The News, December 02, 2007
The conference organized by the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) to promote the freedom of the media, the safety of journalists and to find ways to attain these goals, has made no bones about the.....read more   LONDON: Reporters Without Borders has written to President Pervez Musharraf asking him to quickly rescind his ban on the Geo TV group's various television stations and two independent radio.....read more

 
Geo News resumes broadcast
Gulf News, UAE
December 01, 2007
  Coping with censorship
INDEX for free Expression
November 30, 2007
Dubai: Geo News TV, the Dubai-based Pakistani news channel and one of the eight channels of International Media Corporation (IMC), resumed broadcasting from Dubai Media City (DMC) on Thursday midnight.....read more   As President Musharraf announces that he will end Pakistan's state of emergency on 16 December, Shirin B Sadeghi looks at how the media has responded to the crackdown When President......read more

 
Press Watchdog Calls On Pakistan To Remove Barriers Against Broadcasters, ANH
November 30, 2007
  Good show, General!
Dr Moeed Pirzada, Khaleej Times
November 30, 2007
Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has issued an open letter to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for not allowing a Dubai-based television station and two private radio stations......read more   ON NOVEMBER 28, the Pakistani dictator finally decided to shut the doors to the most colourful wardrobe in the land. In an auspicious celebration, General Pervez Musharraf became civilianised, so to speak......read more

 
Can Gen Mush (Retd) last as civilian Prez?
CNN-IBN, IBN Live
November 30, 2007
  TV exec turns to music, pix Al Ibrahim lays out plans for future, Varity
November 30, 2007
NEW BEGINNING? Panelists debated whether Musharraf would last as a civilian President.It was an emotional farewell, a sense of loss and a first for a military dictator in Pakistan. Pakistan's President......read more   Similarly, incidents such as the NMC's decision in November to stop two dissident Pakistani satcasters, Geo TV and ARY, from transmitting out of Dubai on the grounds they were affecting the neutrality of U.A.E......read more

 
Pakistan's GEO News resumes transmissions from Dubai, Sify News,
November 30, 2007
  Media: The More things change
Beena Sarwar
Chowk.com, November 30, 2007
Dubai: Geo News, Pakistan private television network Geo TV's news channel, has resumed broadcast, two weeks after it was blacked out following an order from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities.  ......read more   The more things change, the more they remain the same, goes the old adage. In terms of the media in Pakistan, much has changed. The most notable change in the media landscape is the rise of the independent  ......read more

 
Sindh High Court adjourns hearing of Geo TV case till December 4, Daily INDIA
November 30, 2007
 

Pakistan's Geo News resumes transmission from Dubai
Sify News
November 30, 2007

Sindh High Court today adjourned the hearing of a case relating to the ban on Dubai-based Geo TV till December 4.A two-judge bench of the high court, comprising Justice Muneeb Ahmed Khan and ......read more   Dubai: Geo News, Pakistan private television network Geo TV's news channel, has resumed broadcast, two weeks after it was blacked out following an order from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities......read more

 
Geo TV resumes play in Pakistan via satellite
CNN-IBN – India
November 30, 2007
  Reporters without Borders – for Press Freedom
It is time to allow Geo TV
November 30, 2007
MEDIA MESH: GEO TV, which was pulled off air following the Pak Emergency, is back on air.New Delhi/Dubai: Pakistan news channel Geo News resumed its transmission out of Dubai Media City at.....read more   Open letter to Musharraf saying it is time to allow Geo TV and independent radios to resume broadcastingReporters Without Borders wrote today to President Pervez Musharraf asking him to quickly rescind his.....read more

 
PAKISTAN: Geo TV returns to airwaves
Asia Media
November 30, 2007
  Geo TV to resume telecast
The HINDU
November 30, 2007
Pakistani channel Geo News resumed broadcasting from Dubai at midnight on Thursday after the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) shut it down nearly two weeks ago.According to Agence France-Presse.....read more   Dubai (PTI): Pakistan's private Geo TV channel will resume operation from midnight tonight following an understanding reached with the authorities in the Emirate, which blocked its transmission reportedly under.....read more

 
Dubai rulers let Geo go on air
Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
The News, November 29, 2007
  Restrictions on TV channels challenged in SC
Sohail Khan
The News, November 29, 2007
ISLAMABAD: The authorities of Dubai Media City (DMC) and IMC Dubai have restored the Geo News channel immediately and asked the administration of the channel to start telecasting its programmes from.....read more   SLAMABAD: Restrictions on TV channels clamped on November 3 after the proclamation of emergency and the imposition of the PCO were challenged in the Supreme Court here on Wednesday, praying that.....read more

 
Pakistan's uneasy laughter
Washington Post
November 29, 2007
  Geo TV Producers Won't Accept New Rules
ABC NEWS
November 29, 2007
With dissent being silenced, political satire goes underground.There's a certain darkness to the humor in Pakistan these days. Take the case of Fasi Zaka and News, Views and Confused.The program......read more   Under President Gen.Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule, many of Pakistan's popular talk shows have been banned. As this nation enters its fourth week of what has been described as defacto martial law….read more

 
Protest against media curbs continue
IFEX
November 29, 2007
  Spreading prosperity
Sunny Hundal,
Gurdian, November 28, 2007
A reporter for a leading paper was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the southern province of Sindh last week, report Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters….read more   While much attention has focused over the past decade on the rise of China and India as economic giants, much less is said about the Middle East. Until recently there are has been little need to.....read more

 
Media Bodies agree to improve ties with the govt.
The News,
November 28, 2007
  No Written order for GEO ban
DAG Sindh High Court
The News, November 28, 2007
ISLAMABAD: The representatives of APNS, CPNE, PFUJ and the ministry of information and broadcasting have agreed to improve the environment with regard to the government-media relations by.....read more   KARACHI: Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rizwan Ahmed Siddiqui said on Tuesday that no written order was issued for the suspension of Geo TV.....read more

 
How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically
Emily Wax
Washington Post, November 28, 2007
  Pakistan with or without Musharaf
Michael Krepon
The News, 27 November 200
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Musharraf's government for several weeks blacked out the country's lively independent news channels and temporarily detained scores of journalists....read more   The longer Musharraf wears either of his two hats, the longer it will take for Pakistan to hold sufficiently credible elections upon which a semblance of political normalcy can
resume
....read more

 
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