Former secretary-general of PFUJ Shamsul Islam Naz passes away
ISLAMABAD – Shamsul Islam Naz, a senior journalist and a former secretary general of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) passed away on Monday. He was 64. Naz worked for…
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Media workers protest retrenchment, pay cuts
KARACHI: A joint workers’ action committee comprising representatives of media organisations, as well as trade and labour unions, set up a protest camp outside the offices of a newspaper on…
Dawn scribe says PTI responsible for rendering journalists jobless
ISLAMABAD – Asad Malik, a reporter with Dawn, on Friday held the PTI government responsible for making more than 10000 journalists jobless. In a tweet in Urdu, he criticized the…
Dawn staff calls for withdrawal of decision to cut wages
ISLAMABAD – The Dawn workers union has called on the management to review and withdraw its decision of cutting staff wages by 40 percent. The workers pointed out that slashing…
Call for implementing right to information act
KARACHI: Speakers at a consultative workshop held on Tuesday at a local hotel expressed concern over delay in proper implementation of the Sindh Transparency and Right to Information (RTI) Act,…
RTI’s complaints commission itself in complainant mode
ISLAMABAD: Although the PTI government has set up the Federal Information Commission (FIC) to deal with complaints against the ministries and their subordinate departments denying public their lawful right to…