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WASHINGTON: Journalists faced growing dangers of being targeted for killing for their work in 2018 even as the risks from war and conflict declined, a media watchdog said Wednesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists said 34 of the 53 journalists killed on duty this year around the world were "singled out for murder." "The number of journalists targeted for murder in reprisal for their reporting nearly doubled in 2018 from a year earlier, driving up the overall count of journalists killed on the job," the New…

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has said TV channels not suspended their comedy programs even on December 16, the tragic day in country's history. In his tweet, the minister said even on the December 16, the dreadful day, when APS attack took place that left around 150 people, including children and teachers, dead, in 2014, the TV channels had not suspended their comedy programs. کسی ایک چینل نے بھی اپنے کامیڈی پروگرام سانحہ APS کے احترام میں منسوخ نہیں کئے جب آپ توجہ دلاتے…

KARACHI: President and CEO of ARY Digital Network, Mr. Salman Iqbal, says that the role of media is to report the current happenings, whether it’s good or bad. Speaking at the conference held under the aegis of World Memon Organization (WMO) in Karachi, Mr. Iqbal said the media in Pakistan was currently going through evolution. Highlighting the services of Memon community, he said that the community was playing its pivotal role in the field of media as well as in other sectors of the country. “Pakistani media is…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government will soon resolve problems being faced by the country through its policies, ARY News reported. Talking to a delegation of representatives of Council of Newspapers Editors and Pakistan Broadcasters Association, the PM said that the government wants to provide maximum relief to the masses and is mainly focusing on long neglected sectors of education and health. About the economic issues faced by the country, the…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said a strategy was being devised for payment of the arrears of media, piling up and pending since the previous governments, so that problems of the newspaper industry could be addressed. "Media has a key role in promotion of democracy, ensuring good governance, transparency and meritocracy. The government will extend full support to the media," he said while talking to a delegation of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) in Islamabad. Minister for Information and…

GENEVA: US President Donald Trump’s verbal attacks on the media run the risk of triggering real violence against journalists, the U.N. rapporteur for freedom of expression said on Thursday. In a joint statement with Edison Lanza, who holds the same post at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, David Kaye said Trump’s tirades against the media violated the basic norms of press freedom. “These attacks run counter to the country’s obligations to respect press freedom and international human rights law,” they said.…

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Dr. Hassan Askari on Friday said that media should play its national responsibility for mobilization of voters for forthcoming elections. He said this while discussing implementation of code of conducts of Election Commission of Pakistan for media in a meeting with Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Saleem Baig in Lahore. The CM said media should perform its duty responsibly during electoral process on the election day. He said the caretaker…

NEW DELHI: A consortium of Indian banks can search and seize the properties of Indian businessman Vijay Mallya in Britain, media reports said on Thursday, citing the decision of a British court. India wants to extradite Mallya from Britain on fraud charges and to help nearly a dozen Indian banks recover loans granted to his defunct Kingfisher Airlines after the tycoon, co-owner of the Force India Formula One motor racing team, fled to Britain in March 2016. The case against Mallya centres on a series of loans…

LAHORE: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has ordered the owners of various media channels to appear before the Supreme Court on Monday (today) to enlighten the basis of non-payment of salaries to their employees, and no implementation of his orders. A two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar led the hearing. The chief justice issued the order at the Lahore registry of the Supreme Court on Sunday about non-payment of salaries by different media outlets. According to him, grave action would be taken against…

Reporters Without Borders condemned the staging of a murder of an anti-Kremlin journalist in Ukraine as a "pathetic stunt."