Source: Daily Times
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday described the relationship between Pakistan and India as different from what it was a number of years ago, while stressing that “they share a common enemy, because extremists in any form are obviously a threat to the Pakistanis as well as to […]

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Source: Hindustan Times
Lahore: Inside the Lahore High Court compound, a meeting of select lawyers from across Pakistan is taking place to decide their next course of action. Their objective: to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007.
Outside the compound, journalists and lawyers patiently await the end of the meeting, gossiping and talking […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
Yesterday during the National Assembly session where the elections were underway to elect the new speaker of the house, outside it seems that the media was being roughed up for God knows what reason, under specific orders of the SP & DSP. One can only speculate as to why these media outlets were […]

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Source: The emergency Times
Dear Journalist Colleagues,
Thanks for coming to this press conference on the invitation of Pakistan Federal Union Journalists. As you, Musharraf regime have banned many TV anchors including me without any written charge against us. The main objective of banning us was to pressurize Pakistani media to accept a new code of […]

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Source: Jamaica Cleaner
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says, in 2007, violence against journalists reached extreme levels for the third year in succession with 171 confirmed deaths, just below the record set a year earlier.

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Source: New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 10 — Nearly all private television channels blacked out last month by President Pervez Musharraf’s emergency decree are back on the air. But the country’s once-thriving television news media remain largely muzzled by sweeping new restrictions that journalists and Western diplomats say stifle criticism of the government.

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Petition filed in SHC by Geo News, Geo Entertainment, Geosuper, Aag channels

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By Augustine Anthony
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan ordered the expulsion of three journalists from a British newspaper for using “foul and abusive” language about the troubled country and its leadership, the government said on Saturday.

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Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has resumed her campaign against emergency rule, following the lifting of a detention order against her. She joined a rally by journalists against a partial news blackout, and called for a fresh wave of protests.
But the former PM was stopped from meeting the dismissed chief justice, who remains under virtual […]

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