LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah on Monday opened the first-ever court in Punjab to deal with gender-based violence cases...
The special court would work at the Lahore Judicial Complex with an additional district & sessions judge as its presiding judge...
A gender-based violence court in Lahore on Tuesday handed life imprisonment and Rs500,000 in fine to a man convicted of raping a six-year-old girl...
The gender-based violence court is a collaboration of Asian Development Bank and the Lahore High Court...
A Sadiqabad-based taxi driver, who recently underwent treatment for health complications caused by obesity, passed away on Monday in a hospital in Lahore after an outbreak of violence by the relatives of another patient who had died at the facility...
Noorul Hassan, weighing 330 kg, made national headlines last month when he was air lifted on a Pakistan Army helicopter to Lahore for treatment on special directives from Army Chief...
The SBP has advised all banks to take immediate measures for updating their policies, procedures, systems and controls, restoration of communication channels and agreements with their counterparts in Iran for early recovery of normal trade and business activities...
India adopted a rupee-based payment mechanism with Iran to skirt Western sanctions that prohibited purchases from Iran made in dollars...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Saturday afternoon issued a notification prohibiting live coverage of the operation to end the Faizabad sit-in, following which most private news channels were taken off-air in Islamabad and other parts of the country...
The Pemra notification ordered channels to abide by Clause 8 (8) of the Electronic Media (Programmes and Advertisement) Code of Conduct 2015, to...
ISLAMABAD: Denouncing the federal government’s decision to take all news channels off the air on Saturday, the journalist community in the twin cities on Sunday announced to launch a movement to put pressure on the government to revoke Section 5 of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Act...
The news channels were, however, restored on Sunday evening...
URDU pronunciation of some Pakistani TV channels is giving nightmares to many, though the owners and anchors of those channels may not even be aware how mercilessly they have been slaughtering our national language...
Another matter of concern is TV channels’ non-standard grammar...
ISLAMABAD: Following the ISPR’s sharp reaction to MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s fiery speech on Thursday night, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) issued on Friday show-cause notices to 14 private TV channels and barred all channels from airing “inflammatory content”...
The ministry said the government noted with concern the hate speech of a political leader, telecast live by most private TV channels on April...
ISLAMABAD: Against the backdrop of the Axact degree awarding fiasco, the Supreme Court came up on Wednesday with a suggestion calling upon private television channels to follow the practice of revealing the names of their owners as was done by the print media which published the names of editors and publishers...
Also read: Axact episode echoes in SCThe chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) assured...
MANY news channels show funny clips taken from the Internet...
I suggest to our TV news channels to inform the viewers about the latest progress of development projects instead of showing outdated video clips, mostly funny ones...
ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over an alarming witnessed trend among private TV channels, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) issued advice to all licence holders, reminding them not to broadcast programmes that denigrated children in any way...
Earlier, on May,1, the authority issued show cause notices to 14 channels for airing the unedited speech of MQM chief Altaf Hussain where he had allegedly derided the...
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Thursday imposed fines against two private TV channels for airing defamatory content following a complaint was lodged by Inspector General of Police (IGP) A...
Pemra has also instructed the channels to air an apology in their 6:00pm news bulletin to viewers for "airing the fake news against the IGP," the statement said...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to stop issuing show cause notices to TV channels based on violations of the regulator's Ramazan transmission guidelines until the Islamabad High Court (IHC) passes "an appropriate order in this regard"...
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday announced that it would take up the matter of the return of Pakistani students and teachers visiting India through diplomatic channels...
Dehli-based NGO Routes2Roots had invited the Pakistani students as part of their student "Exchange for Change" Programme...
ISLAMABAD: As the World No Tobacco Day approaches, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) succeeded in getting an assurance from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to run tobacco control messages through national TV channels and radio stations...
An official of the ministry told Dawn that according to Section 20 of the Pemra Ordinance, television channels were bound to allocate 10pc of their airtime for...