Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Journalists protest
Journalists turned out in great number in a protest rally against ban on Geo news. The protest rally was taken out from Karachi Press Club (KPC), later a token sit-in was staged in front of the Chief Minister House. Journalists, civil society members, lawyers and activists of various political parties participated in the rally. The participants chanted slogans in favour of freedom of media and expression. They also demanded that the government should immediately restore Geo news transmission on cable.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Pakistan TV journalist killed in Swat Valley
Pakistani journalist Mosa Khankhel, a correspondent for Geo TV and The News, died with his boots on as he headed for Swat in the country's restive northwest to report on peace talks between a radical cleric and his son-in-law who heads the Taliban that controls the area. Unidentified gunmen shot Khankhel dead at Matta, near Swat, where the peace talks were to be held.In his last report before his death on the departure of cleric Sufi Mohammad of the Tahrik-e-Nifaz Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) for talks with Maulana Fazlullah, the journalist said: "The convoy is departing for Matta. Sufi Ahmed will go with the convoy to Matta.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Police Attack On Geo Office.
Police attack The News, Geo offices in Islamabad; smash glass entrance of building, fire teargas shells, stone staffers.The press was under siege on a Friday that turned into a black day due to the use of brute force by the police. The office of The News, Islamabad and Geos capital headquarters located on the same premises were vandalised by the Punjab police without provocation, as Islamabads deputy commissioner and the senior superintendent police kept standing at the corner of the building.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Geo News telecast blocked in parts of Pakistan
Friday, March 13, 2009
ISLAMABAD: It has been learned that cable operators across the country blocked the transmission of Geo News on the directive of President Asif Ali Zardari.President Zardari has sent messages to Geo TV administration in which he has said that if Geo has recovered from the courts the losses incurred following the ban on the channel in former president Pervez Musharraf’s rule then it should stop forthwith the coverage of lawyers movement for the restoration of November 3, 2007 judiciary.The reason why President Asif Ali Zardari has taken the step is that Geo TV is reminding the President his past promises and commitments he had made to the nation and what Shaheed Benazir Bhutto had said about the freedom of expression, restoration of judiciary and Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Geo Blocked Sherry Resigns
Islamabad: Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rahman has resigned from the cabinet following differences with the top leadership over the government's media policy, Geo TV reported Saturday.
Rahman, a close associate of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, put in her papers Friday night during a high-level meeting chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari, the report said, quoting sources. She offered her resignation after differences emerged on the issue of handling the media in the context of the ongoing political crisis during the meeting, which was also attended by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik. However, there was no word from the government on this.
On Friday, the government blocked the telecast of Geo TV and Aaj TV channels in several Pakistani cities over their coverage of lawyers movement and the ongoing tussle with the opposition parties. Rehman, who had earlier threatened to resign if any curbs are imposed on the media, appealed to Zardari to lift the ban and put in her papers when failed to convince him, sources told Geo TV.
The information minister also alleged that she and the prime minister were bypassed on the matter as the media ban order was directly issued from the President House.
Rahman, a close associate of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, put in her papers Friday night during a high-level meeting chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari, the report said, quoting sources. She offered her resignation after differences emerged on the issue of handling the media in the context of the ongoing political crisis during the meeting, which was also attended by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik. However, there was no word from the government on this.
On Friday, the government blocked the telecast of Geo TV and Aaj TV channels in several Pakistani cities over their coverage of lawyers movement and the ongoing tussle with the opposition parties. Rehman, who had earlier threatened to resign if any curbs are imposed on the media, appealed to Zardari to lift the ban and put in her papers when failed to convince him, sources told Geo TV.
The information minister also alleged that she and the prime minister were bypassed on the matter as the media ban order was directly issued from the President House.
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