QUETTA: Newspapers were not distributed in the city and other parts of the province on Tuesday as hawkers and agents refrained from delivering them due to threats hurled by banned militant organisations...
The organisations are demanding the media publish statements about their activities and have threatened to stop distribution of newspapers in any area of the province...
Pakistan had experienced press censorship many times before, but General Ziaul Haq’s tenure was a cut above...
On Oct 15, 1979, Gen Zia began clamping down on the news media, after he began feeling that newspapers were gaining liberty to the extent that they had begun criticism over his continued rule...
Once the target was achieved, regional newspapers became more objective and focused on their role of being society’s watchdogs...
Although newspapers and periodicals started coming out of various cities across the province, Karachi continued to remain the hub of Sindhi journalism well into the 1950s...
In an editorial titled "The Guardian view on Pakistan and the Panama Papers: an international affair", the paper wrote:"Though this leaves Pakistan’s politics in turmoil, it is a very international affair […] Efforts must not stop there...
In an op-ed titled "Pakistan’s Court Sets a Dangerous Precedent", Aqil Shah wrote:"The verdict came as no surprise...
The Hindu, in an opinion editorial, took a measured approach with Suhasini Haidar looking at the bigger picture and discussing Jadhav's arrest in relation to Pakistan-India talks...
Yadav’s confessional statement isn’t quite convincing, the circumstances around his appearance in Pakistan certainly need investigation by India...
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information on Monday informed the National Assembly that publishing Quranic verses and translation of the same in newspapers is a violation of law and an offense related to “defiling of Holy Quran”...
The statement by the ministry was in reply to MQM MNA Sheikh Salahuddin' question regarding the publication of verses by daily newspapers...
SRINAGAR: Authorities in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) have shut down printing presses and temporarily banned newspapers from publishing in a sweeping information blackout after days of anti-India protests left dozens of people dead in the region...
The government says 36 people — 35 civilians and a police officer — have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces, while local human rights groups and newspapers say at...
KARACHI: The executive committee of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society criticised what it described as consistent indifference of the federal government, especially the information ministry, towards long-pending issues of the newspaper industry, said an APNS press release on Tuesday...
This had resulted in a sharp decrease in advertisements in newspapers which in turn had made it difficult for smaller and regional publications to...
Almost all major Indian newspapers, in editorials published after the Pathankot attacks, advised their government to "stay the course" and not stall or suspend talks with Pakistan after the attacks, which are seen as an attempt to undermine resumption of dialogue between the two neighbours...
Saturday’s attack could also be designed to sow fresh suspicion in Indian minds about the intent of Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif,...
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court ordered on Tuesday that an advertisement be published in newspapers asking Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain to appear before the court...
Print media in Pakistan has many a time welcomed the imposition of martial law...
These were some of the thoughts expressed by different speakers on Friday at a conference titled ‘History and democracy’ organised by the Pakistan Study Centre and Tareekh Foundation at the arts auditorium in Karachi...
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee was informed here on Monday that the government was planning to strictly implement laws to discourage ‘dummy newspapers’ and the circulation declared by newspapers would be linked to their tax filing certificates...
A meeting of the sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting, presided over by Senator Mushahidullah Khan, was informed that newspapers were not fulfilling...
IN 1947, just like the immigrants moving both ways, ‘immigrant newspapers’ had travails of their own to overcome before they could settle down in their dreamlands...
Press releases still find a market in Urdu newspapers where editors generally prefer them over investigative reporting...
The ATC judge, Shahrukh Arjumand, however, questioned why the FIA had only included Hussain's Pakistan address...
The case has been registered under sections 302, 34, 109, 120B of the Pakistan Penal Code and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act...
QUETTA: The distribution of local and national newspapers in Balochistan resumed on Saturday as the banned Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) announced its decision to end its boycott of media...
The press clubs had been closed and distribution of newspapers discontinued in the coastal belt including Gwadar, along with the areas in southern and central Balochistan, after the boycott had been announced on Oct 24...