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	Asia Times: ANALYSIS: Turning point for Pakistan's media?
		LAHORE - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesdayunanimously declared military courts established by thegovernment to fight terrrorism to be unconstitutional - to thedelight of journalists' unions.
		Journalists associations are themselves contesting in the SupremeCourt the Sharif government's attempts to muzzle the media,which sparked a huge confrontation between the authorities andthe country's largest newspaper group, Jang.
		All Pakistan's political parties excluding the ruling MuslimLeague have been openly supportive of the campaign for pressfreedom and the demand for the removal of state controlover the electronic media which at present is the ''government'smouthpiece,'' according to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
	www.atimes.com /media/AC20Ce03.html (542 words)

	IFEX ::
		The journalists were assaulted by the police at the venue of a public rally by a religious political party.
		Federal, provincial and city journalists' bodies condemned the police assault on these journalists as they were discharging their duties.
		In a joint meeting held on 17 September, the office-bearers of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, the Punjab Union of Journalists and the All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation adopted a unanimous resolution, asking the government not to transform the country into a police state.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/77121 (519 words)

	Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists
		Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) is arguably South Asia’s first association representing the journalists of an entire country.
		KARACHI, Nov 16: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and the All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation have urged the federal government to ensure implementation of the Seventh Wage Award.
		THE Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists demanded that the judicial commission’s report on the kidnap and killing of journalist Hayatullah Khan be made public.
	www.pfuj.info /main.htm (506 words)

	Pakistan News
		Pakistan newspapers owners are bound to pay the wages set out in the Seventh Wage Board decision, which was handed down on October 8, 2001, and backdated to 2000, as stipulated by the Newspapers Employers Act (Conditions of Service) 1973, and passed by the National Assembly.
		Journalists told the delegation they are often threatened by the groups they cover and that they fear retribution from the government, including illegal detentions and harassment.
		Many journalists also spoke of the lack of support they felt from the news organizations for which they work, saying the outlets are reluctant to confront the government when their reporters are arrested or detained.
	online-rmnp.tripod.com /id12.html (8896 words)

	JRC News Letter November 1999
		Omar Asghar Khan, federal minister for local government, labour and environment, while giving his key note address here on the occasion stressed that freedom of information is a prerequisite to ensure devolution of power to the lowest ebb of society.
		He said that the journalists have become so used to press advice that during times when it is not dictated, the journalists wait for it to come.
		President Punjab Union of Journalists, Ruman Ehsan said that freedom of expression was priority of neither the democratic or autocratic governments.
	www.syberwurx.com /jrc/dialogues/Dialogues2000/january.html (922 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Pakistani journalists oppose Press Council
		Pakistani journalists say the proposed creation of a 'Press Council' by the government, to enforce rules regarding press responsibility, is more an attempt to muzzle their freedom of expression.
		Pakistan's nine-month-old Nawaz Sharief government has not bothered to consult the journalists unions, even though the need to draft rules for the print media in Pakistan was first expressed by reporters and editors in 1959.
		The council is to be headed by a serving or retired judge of the Pakistan supreme court or a high court.
	www.rediff.com /news/sep/30pak.htm (912 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Pakistan vow over BBC abduction
		Journalists groups have alleged he was kidnapped by Pakistani intelligence, a charge the government denies.
		Meanwhile, the secretary general of the Pakistani Federal Union of Journalists, Mazhar Abbas, said that the reporter's abduction was an "act" of the intelligence agencies.
		Mr Khan is one of the few local journalists reporting on the Pakistani army's fight with pro-Taleban militants in the troubled Waziristan region on the Afghan border.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/6174096.stm (491 words)

	PAKISTAN: Journalists Continue to Face Wage Crisis \| Asia Media Forum
		The IFJ has penned a letter of support to the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and is planning a day of action to mark the anniversary of the Seventh Wage Board in October.
		Further to the despair of Pakistani journalists, the tenure of the Chairman of the Implementation Tribunal has expired, and the Pakistani government is yet to announce a new Chairman.
		Despite the silence of employers, the PFUJ continues to rally for the long overdue economic and workplace rights that Pakistan's media workers are entitled to.
	www.asiamediaforum.org /node/289 (421 words)

	PPF - Media Files Details
		The journalists were assaulted by the police at the venue of a public rally by a religions political party.
		Federal, provincial and city journalists’ bodies condemned the police assault of the journalists during discharge of their duties.
		The office-bearers of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, Punjab Union of Journalists and All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation, in a joint meeting held here on Sunday, adopted a unanimous resolution, asking the government not to make the country a police state.
	www.pakistanpressfoundation.org /userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=7653 (370 words)

	CNN.com - Pakistani police attack media - May 3, 2005
		Among those arrested were Pervez Shaukat, president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, and Kamal Azfar, president of the Islamabad Union of Journalists.
		According to the International Federation of Journalists, 129 journalists were killed in 2004, mostly in Iraq, where 19 reporters and other media personnel died.
		That compares with 93 deaths in 2003, showing "journalists were increasingly being considered as legitimate targets as they reported on war zones and investigated corruption," the group says on their Web site.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/03/pakistan.media (561 words)

	Asia Times: Journalists challenge Sharif government's press crackdown
		On Monday, all Pakistan's political parties, excluding the prime minister's Muslim League, participated in a mammoth Press Freedom March held simultaneously in the capital city Islamabad and Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city.
		The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists' President Abdul Hameed Chapra said a petition on press freedom filed in the Supreme Court would not be withdrawn, even if the government submitted to pressure and stopped harassing the Jang Group.
		And Pakistan's leading rights lawyer Asma Jahangir who is representing the Union in its case for press freedom in the Supreme Court, said the petition was ''historic''.
	www.atimes.com /media/AC20Ce04.html (813 words)

	PAKISTAN: An alleged abduction and torture of a journalist by military personnel and the banning of a Sindh television ...
		PAKISTAN: An alleged abduction and torture of a journalist by military personnel and the banning of a Sindh television channel by the government
		Mazhar Abass, Secretary General of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, accused that the manner of the abduction and the interrogation by the abductors shows the incident was done by the Intelligence Agencies (Military) of Pakistan.
		Reasonable suspicion arose that the Intelligence Agencies (Military) of Pakistan might be involved in his abduction, considering the manner of the abduction and the interrogation by the abductors.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/2091 (1907 words)

	All Pakistan Newspapers Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, the labor laws are violated in the Pakistani newspaper industry but no government dares to take action against this powerful elite of the country.
		The All Pakistan Newspapers Society is an organisation of all the publishers of Pakistan.
		The APNS has been consistently denying the Wage Board award to its journalists, and has come under fire for it but consistently refuses to give it, which, according to the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, is against the law, but no one dares to do anything against the county’s elite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/All_Pakistan_Newspapers_Society (2419 words)

	PAKISTAN: Journalists to stage protest over rights of those in the media
		Other journalist unions in various provinces around the country plan to launch their rallies at their local Press Clubs, before making their way to the Governor house of their province.
		The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) will commence their main rally from the Rawalpindi Press Club and make their way to the President of Pakistan’s Army Camp Office at the Pakistan army headquarters in Rawalpindi.
		Finally, I lend my support to the journalists in their request that general violence against journalists be stopped, that fl laws against the media be abolished, and that the Wage Award be implemented.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/1703 (1020 words)

	The News - International
		The protest was held in connection with the countrywide protest call of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ).
		PFUJ finance secretary Ibraheem Khan and Tribal Union of Journalists president Sailab Mahsud were also present on the occasion.
		Meanwhile, a local journalist filed a writ petition in the Peshawar High Court, praying the court to remove Amir Muqam from the office of the provincial president of PML and disqualify him from the same or any other political office within the jurisdiction of the court.
	www.thenews.com.pk /daily_detail.asp?id=14583 (300 words)

	Pakistan journalists demand inquiry into reporter's murder - Irna
		Journalists, wearing fl bands on their arms, staged demonstration in front of the parliament building in Islamabad and demanded arrest of those behind the murder of the journalist.
		President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists Pervez Shaukat speaking at the rally demanded of the government to hold judicial inquiry into the incident to find out as who were behind the murder.
		Representatives of journalists announced that if the government did not catch the culprits, the journalist community and opposition lawmakers would form a joint committee to investigate and find out who are behind the killing.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/menu-235/0606199202183232.htm (656 words)

	Pakistan
		Pakistan: PFUJ Condems the Murder of journalist Sajid Tanoli -30/01/2004
		Indonesia: The PFUJ demands the facilitation of the release of journalists Ersa Siregar and Fery Santoro who are being held hostage in Aceh by the GAM.
		Amir Bux Brohi and the Unlawful Detainment of journalists Nasarullah Afridi and Aurangzeb Afridi -07/10/03
	www.ifj-asia.org /page/pakistan.html (3164 words)

	ONLINE - International News Network
		Later on with the mutual deliberations journalist belonging to PFUJ, RIUJ and Parliamentary Press Gallery announced total boycott of the proceedings of the assembly during the budget meeting.
		A special meeting of Pakistan Federal Union of Correspondents headed by Chairman Shujaat Ali Khan was held that termed the killing synonymous to a blow on freedom of press and a slap on the face of the present government.
		Journalist led by President local press club Muhammad Ashraf Nadeem raised slogans against the killing at a protest demonstration that was attended by all members of Tehsil council including the opposition members.
	www.onlinenews.com.pk /details.php?id=98839 (545 words)

	IFEX ::
		The aims of the mission are to assess the extent of damage to media institutions such as press clubs and local publications; to assess the extent of loss to individual journalists and their family members, and equipment and property; and to assess the level of support being received by victims.
		According to the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), which has been attempting to confirm the death toll of journalists, three individuals are confirmed dead, while five are missing.
		It says Pakistani journalists and their families who have been affected by the earthquake will be able to seek support from the fund.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/69856 (363 words)

	MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Shackled by Ruling Elite, Security Forces
		Across Pakistan, wealthy landowners, known locally as zamindars, jagirdars or waderas, have exercised a semi-mediaeval control over the lives, beliefs and, crucially, the votes of the largely illiterate rural population to amass immense political power.
		The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has condemned the attacks on press freedom on the pretext of the country's involvement in the ongoing "war on terror".
		There are at least 25 cases of journalists having been arrested, or prevented from circulating freely, or having their equipment confiscated in the area.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=32195 (872 words)

	News > Report of the PIPFPD Media Sector
		He noted that the Pakistani journalists unions are members of the Asian Union of Journalists, which also includes the Indian Union of Journalists.
		He criticized the media of India and Pakistan for generally being the voice of the establishment and the political elite, thus contributing to increased tensions.
		And this time, when I was coming to Pakistan, the same colleagues who had been cautioning me, were also keen to come," she said, underlining the importance of interaction.
	www.nwmindia.org /News/Round_up/pipfpd.htm (1150 words)

	News > Round-up > Rise of women journalists in Pakistan
		A tribute that the women journalists is that despite being a minority, they hold key assignments in their field, like editors, news editors, magazine editors, in the print media, and anchorpersons, newscasters, editors, and reporters, in the electronic media.
		Fauzia Shahid, journalist based in Islamabad was the only woman activist who bocomes the Secretary General of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and is still its Vice-President.
		The Karachi Union of Journalists, KUJ, which represents over 650 journalists has some 60 women as its members, has decided to move an amendment in the constitution of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, PFUJ, to bring journalists working in the private television channels in its fold.
	www.nwmindia.org /news/round_up/women_journ_pak.htm (1391 words)

	freedomforum.org: 4 Pakistani journalists freed in blasphemy case; new press law drafted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Four Pakistani journalists who had been jailed on charges of blasphemy — which can carry the death penalty — were released on bail this week and led in a triumphal walk from the prison to the local press club.
		The journalists, all from the Urdu-language daily Mohasib in the northern Pakistani town of Abbotabad, were arrested in early June and freed on bail on July 18.
		National and international journalist bodies, including the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Sans Frontières in Paris condemned the journalists' arrests and called for their immediate release.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=14449 (560 words)

	PFUJ demands implementation of wage award -DAWN - National; May 20, 2003
		Through another resolution, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists opposed efforts to amend the Newspapers Employees Condition of Service Act 1973 and vowed to resist any such moves.
		They said the owners of print media were now turning to electronic media and their income had been increasing constantly with the increase in all types of advertisement rates.
		The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists also asked the government to make efforts to turn newspapers into public limited companies and force the newspaper owners to present their income and expenditure before the public every year.
	www.dawn.com /2003/05/20/nat12.htm (249 words)

	Journalists Resource Centre (JRC)
		A majority of journalists in Pakistan is either underpaid or not paid at all.
		Tahir Malik, a young and bold journalist associated with the profession for more than a decade, has carried out a scientific study on the working conditions of newsmen in That is perhaps for the first time in recent times.
		After Mian Majid Shafi's valuable work in the form of an All Pakistan Journalists Directory is another step towards a systematic understanding of journalists and their profession in Both these seminal works are the result of individual efforts made by these two journalists..
	www.syberwurx.com /jrc/Report/PREFACE.html (596 words)

	Newswatch India » Pakistan not investigating murders of its own journalists
		Pakistan does not investigate murders of its own journalists as vigorously as it does of foreign journalists.
		The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and the All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation said in a joint statement that they would observe a “fl day” on Monday when protest demonstrations would be held and journalists would boycott assembly sessions.
		Many journalists also spoke of the lack of support they felt from the news organisations for which they work, saying the outlets are reluctant to confront the government when their reporters are arrested or detained.
	www.newswatch.in /?p=5428 (2374 words)

	Journalists vow to defend freedom -DAWN - National; May 4, 2006
		According to a press release of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), hundreds of mediamen took part in the rallies in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Hyderabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Abbottabad.
		Federal Minister of State for Information Tariq Azeem met the protesting journalists and assured them that their problems would be solved.
		In Lahore, journalists brought out a procession from the office of the Punjab Union of Journalists and held a demonstration outside the Punjab Assembly.
	www.dawn.com /2006/05/04/nat8.htm (314 words)

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