| News
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Pakistan:
Illusions of reality?
Dr. Moeed Pirzada
Khaleej Times, 10 January 2008 |
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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
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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
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C’Wealth,
UK hail lifting of emergency
The News
December 16, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Constitution
amended as emergency ends today
The News
December 15, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Normal
service will not be resumed any time soon in Pakistan:
Bronwen Maddox
Times Online, December 13, 2007 |
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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
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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
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GEO
TV ban irks people at the grass roots
The News
December 12, 2007 |
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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
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Pakistan
Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has warned private TV
channels that despite advice and warnings issued from time to time.....read
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Union
joins protests against clampdown on media freedom in Pakistan
National Union of Journalists, December 7, 2007 |
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HRCP
calls for observing Dec 10 as 'black day'
Online News Agency
December 6, 2007 |
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NUJ has backed calls by journalists unions around the world for an
end to the suppression of the media in Pakistan.....read
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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
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Provincial
supreme court rejects Geo TV's request for lifting of ban
Reporters Without Borders, December 6, 2007
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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
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The
US government had reiterated upon Musharraf to restore the transmission
of Geo News without any further delay....read
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Musharraf
PR team faces protest from Pakistanis in UK
Malaysia Sun
December 5, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Supreme
Court Returns the petition challenging the closure of tv channels
The News, December 05, 2007 |
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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
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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 |
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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
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Pak.
doctors join movement to restore judiciary
The Hindu
December 4, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Standing
up for Media Freedoms
Editorial, The News
December 02, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Geo
News resumes broadcast
Gulf News, UAE
December 01, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Press
Watchdog Calls On Pakistan To Remove Barriers Against Broadcasters,
ANH
November 30, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Can
Gen Mush (Retd) last as civilian Prez?
CNN-IBN, IBN Live
November 30, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Pakistan's
GEO News resumes transmissions from Dubai, Sify News,
November 30, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Sindh
High Court adjourns hearing of Geo TV case till December 4,
Daily INDIA
November 30, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Geo
TV resumes play in Pakistan via satellite
CNN-IBN – India
November 30, 2007 |
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Reporters
without Borders – for Press Freedom
It is time to allow Geo TV
November 30, 2007 |
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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
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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
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PAKISTAN:
Geo TV returns to airwaves
Asia Media
November 30, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Dubai
rulers let Geo go on air
Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
The News, November 29, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Pakistan's
uneasy laughter
Washington Post
November 29, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Protest
against media curbs continue
IFEX
November 29, 2007 |
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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
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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
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Media
Bodies agree to improve ties with the govt.
The News,
November 28, 2007 |
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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
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KARACHI:
Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rizwan Ahmed Siddiqui said on Tuesday
that no written order was issued for the suspension of Geo TV.....read
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How
Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically
Emily Wax
Washington Post, November 28, 2007 |
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Pakistan
with or without Musharaf
Michael Krepon
The News, 27 November 2007 |
| Musharraf's
government for several weeks blacked out the country's lively independent
news channels and temporarily detained scores of journalists....read
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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
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