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ISLAMABAD: Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (ITNE) Islamabad on Wednesday admitted for regular hearing cases lodged by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) against Express Group and issued separate notices to its nine stations on charge of non-implementation of 7th Wage Board Award. ITNE Chairman Nasir Hussain Haidri, while admitting the pleas of the PFUJ summoned the Management, to appear before the Tribunal on Nov 12 at Islamabad, through a duly authorised agent or legal representatives dully instructed to answer all questions relating to the cases. Earlier, the tribunal had directed the Express Management to file statements as well as submit complete record of employees working in their respective organisations and details of wages, allowances being paid to them since their joining of the Newspaper. The ITNE also sought record pertaining to attendance of their employees, appointment letters etc., and other vital information. The notices have been issued to management of Daily Express Lahore, Rahim Yar Khan, Peshawar, Gujranwala, Quetta, Sukkur, Sargodha, Islamabad, Multan and Faisalabad. The PFUJ aqgain announced that any newspaper employee having any complaint or objection, grievance for non-implementation of the 7th Wage Board Award and for recovery of his legitimate wages, allowances admissible under the Labour Laws, can contact the PFUJ by sending complaints / applications.
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ITNE issues notices to leading media empire management F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (ITNE) Islamabad on Wednesday admitted for regular hearing cases lodged by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) against Express Group and issued separate notices to its nine stations on charge of non-implementation of 7th Wage Board Award. ITNE Chairman Nasir Hussain Haidri, while admitting the pleas of the PFUJ summoned the Management, to appear before the Tribunal on Nov 12 at Islamabad, through a duly authorised agent or legal representatives dully instructed to answer all questions relating to the cases. Earlier, the tribunal had directed the Express Management to file statements as well as submit complete record of employees working in their respective organisations and details of wages, allowances being paid to them since their joining of the Newspaper. The ITNE also sought record pertaining to attendance of their employees, appointment letters etc., and other vital information. The notices have been issued to management of Daily Express Lahore, Rahim Yar Khan, Peshawar, Gujranwala, Quetta, Sukkur, Sargodha, Islamabad, Multan and Faisalabad. The PFUJ aqgain announced that any newspaper employee having any complaint or objection, grievance for non-implementation of the 7th Wage Board Award and for recovery of his legitimate wages, allowances admissible under the Labour Laws, can contact the PFUJ by sending complaints / applications.
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PFUJ body begins probe into Rehman Malik's complaint against ARYNews


PFUJ body begins probe into Rehman Malik's complaint against ARYNews

ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The five-member Special Committee Constituted by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) met here in Islamabad to consider the complaint of Interior Minister Rehman Malik pertaining to alleged airing a news item by a private channel purporting that “the minister has resigned from his cabinet position."

The meeting, which was chaired by PFUJ Mr. Pervaiz Shaukat, and attended by all its five members, Shamsul Islam Naz, Secretary-General PFUJ; Mr Ashfaq Sajid, President, Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ); Mr Tahir Rathore, former President RIUJ, and Mr. Asim Rana, General Secretary, National Press Club, Islamabad, after detailed discussions and considering the contents of the complaint observed that "keeping in view of the Code of Ethics of the PFUJ and voluntarily evolved Code of Ethics prima facie reached that the complaint of the Interior Minister warrants to be proceeded further to ascertain the truth and veracity of the news aired by the ARY News channel.

The Committee further observed that the complainant maintained that "this news item was totally false, fabricated and concocted and was against all norms of journalism and that he would like to place the matter before the PFUJ Council to look into the matter with a view to uphold principles of free, fair and responsible journalism, and to investigate the background and reasons of this story.

The committee was of the opinion that as per cannons of justice, fair-play, equity and taking into consideration the Code of Ethics of the PFUJ as well as Code of Ethics evolved by the professionals of the electronic media, it unanimously resolved that before proceeding further explanation be sought from the President of the Channel to explain reasons for airing news referred by the complainant in his complaint.

Accordingly, the meeting decided to issue notice to the TV channel to submit reply on or before

Oct 4, 2010, and also depute some authorized person who is fully competent and empowered to reply to the queries of the committee.


The Committee would further meet on Oct 4 at PFUJ Secretariat to initiate further proceedings into this matter.



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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Iranian Journalist Sentenced to Three Years in Jail

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    Iranian Journalist Sentenced to Three Years in Jail

    By WILLIAM YONG

    TEHRAN — Judicial authorities have sentenced a prominent reformist journalist to three years in prison, his family members confirmed Tuesday, while an Iranian-Canadian blogger was sentenced to a 19-year incarceration after having already spent more than two years in detention.

    The punishments reinforced the repression on freedom of expression in Iran, where a crackdown under way since the disputed presidential election of June 2009 has intimidated and silenced many voices of dissent. Amnesty International has said 70 Iranian journalists are in prison, while many more, arrested then released, are at risk of arbitrary re-arrest.

    The latest journalist to receive punishment, Isa Saharkhiz, 56, an advocate of an independent press, was sentenced on Monday, receiving the maximum two years for insulting Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and an extra year for issuing propaganda against the regime. During the election he had campaigned for the reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi.

    Mr. Saharkhiz, thought to be suffering health problems because of harsh physical treatment, has been in continuous detention for more than a year since his arrest in July 2009, just days after the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which Karroubi and other opposition figures said was rigged.

    Mr. Saharkhiz’s court case was not heard until more than one year later. Lawyers complained that the defendant had been forced to appear in court wearing handcuffs and leg irons. Mr. Saharkhiz also angered conservatives during the trial by calling for Ayatollah Khamenei’s prosecution for violating the constitution and keeping silent over the torture of political prisoners.

    News of his sentencing coincided with reports of the 19-year prison sentence for the Iranian-Canadian blogger, Hossein Derakhshan, who has been incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin Prison .

    Mr. Derakhshan, who lived in Canada and Britain for eight years, has Canadian citizenship, although Iran refuses to recognize dual citizenship. A report on the pro-government Mashregh News Web site said Mr. Derakhshan, 35, had been convicted of crimes including “cooperating with hostile governments,” setting up Web sites considered “vulgar and obscene,” and “insulting sanctities.” Family memberspreviously reported that prosecutors had demanded that Mr. Derakhshan be sentenced to death.

    In another development, the Jaras opposition Web site said Tuesday that the killing of an Iranian doctor here this month may have been linked to a politically motivated cover-up of prisoner abuses in the post-election crackdown.

    The doctor, Abdolreza Sudbakhsh, was killed by gunmen on motorcycles, and no suspects have been apprehended.

    But Jaras reported that Dr. Sudbakhsh had been one of the physicians responsible for inmate health at the Kahrizak detention center, where at least three post-election protesters died from torture and harsh treatment. The Jaras report also asserted that Dr. Sudbakhsh had been killed the day before he was to leave Iran for an unidentified destination.

    According to the report, which could not be independently confirmed, Dr. Sudbakhsh had been ordered by Iranian security officials to give false diagnoses regarding Kahrizak detainees, including Mohsen Ruholamini, the 25-year-old son of a top aide to the presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai. Officials initially had claimed that Mr. Ruholamini had died after contracting meningitis. A parliamentary report last January said Mr. Ruholamini and two other detainees had died from beatings and harsh physical treatment at the prison.

    Another physician connected with the Kahrizak case, Ramin Pourandarjani, also died under mysterious circumstances last November. Iranian officials ruled his death to be suicide, but there has been speculation that he died from poisoning. Dr. Pourandarjani was thought to have given evidence about abuses at the Kahrizak center to a parliamentary committee after having served at the prison as part of his compulsory military service.



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    Tuesday, September 28, 2010

    ITNE issues notices to Daily Express management

    ITNE issues notices to Daily Express management
    Islamabad, Sept 29: The Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees,(ITNE) Islamabad, constituted under Section 12-A of the Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1973, for ensuring implementation of the Wage Board Award has admitted for regular hearing cases lodged by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) against one of the emerging leading media empire "Express Group" and issued separate notices to its nine stations on charge of non-implementation of 7th Wage Board Award.

    ITNE Chairman Nasir Hussain Haidri, while admitting the pleas of the PFUJ summoned the Management of Express Group Establishment, to appear before the Tribunal on 12-11-2010 at Islamabad, through a duly authorised agent or legal representatives dully instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the cases.

    Earlier, the tribunal had directed the Express Management to file statements as well as submit complete record of employees working in their respective organisations and details of wages, allowances being paid to them since their joining of the Express Newspaper.

    The ITNE also sought record pertaining to attendance of their employees, appointment letters etc., and other vital information.

    The notices have been issued to managment of Daily Expres Lahore, Rahim Yar KHan, Peshawar, Gujranwala, Quetta, Sukkur, Sargodha, Islamabad, Multan, and Faisalabad.

    The PFUJ asked all the employees working in Daily Express in Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Quetta, Gujranwal, Sargodha, Rahim Yar Khan, Multan, and Peshawar, to immediately put up their claims, objections, grievances, viz-a-viz 7th Wage Award and the present pay structure, to the PFUJ Secretariat.

    The PFUJ further stated that it would ensure recovery of all arrears, and legitimate dues of employees from their organizations provided they intimate particulars of their employment, with specific reference of actual amount being paid to them by the employers, nature of duties being perfumed by them.

    If they were not issued letters of appointment even then they should intimate their particulars indicating date of working and other information about their job, the PFUJ asked.

    The PFUJ pointed out all those employees who had served in the Daily Express but relieved from the duties, dismissed, terminated, removed etc but their dues were not paid in consonance with the 7th Wage Board Award they can all so contact the Secretariat for filing their claims.

    It may be noted that the PFUJ has filed more than 1500 cases against all media outlets (print media) for non implementation of the 7th Wage Board Award before the ITNE.

    The PFUJ once again announced that any newspaper employee having any complaint or objection, grievance for non-implementation of the 7th Wage Board Award and for recovery of his legitimate wages, allowances admissible under the Labour Laws, can contact the PFUJ by sending complaints / applications.

    PFUJ sets up Inquiry Committee to ascertain truth about news on Rehman Malik's resignation

    PFUJ sets up Inquiry Committee to ascertain truth about news on Rehman Malik's resignation


    Islamabad, Sept 28 :- The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has constituted a five-member committee, headed by its President Mr. Pervaiz Shaukat , to ascertain truth, facts and background of news aired by a TV Channel about the resignation of Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik from his office and departure of his family abroad.

    The other members of the committee include Shamsul Islam Naz, Secretary General PFUJ; Mr. Ashfaq Sajid, President, Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ); Mr. Tahir Rathore, former President RIUJ, and Mr. Asim Rana, General Secretary, National Press Club, Islamabad.

    The committee has been constituted on receipt of a complaint from Interior Minister Rehman Malik, in which he claimed that "on Sept 27, ARY News Channel aired a news item to the effect that Senator Rehman Malik, has resigned from his cabinet position."

    Rehman claims in his complaint that "this news item was totally false, fabricated and concocted and was against all norms of journalism. I would, therefore, like to place the matter before the PFUJ Council, to look into the matter with a view to uphold the principles of free, fair and responsible journalism, and to investigate the background and reasons of this story , the minister asserted."

    "I wish to assure PFUJ of my firm faith in your august body and I request you to kindly look into this matter and take necessary action against those who have tried to defame me," Senator A Rehman Malik, pleaded.

    Taking cognizance of the complaint, the PFUJ with the consultation of its members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has constituted a five-member committee to assertain the truth of the news item.

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    President Obama speaks with Trailblazer journalists

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    President Obama speaks with Trailblazer journalists

    Trailblazer reporters and editors participate in conference call with Barack Obama

    By George Bowling

    Staff Writer

    President Obama

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    President Barack Obama participates in a conference call with college and university student-journalists in the Oval Office, Sept. 27, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

    President Barack Obama joined the VU Trailblazer in a live conference call Monday afternoon. During the call hundreds of college newspapers joined the President in a question-and-answer session to get his take on student financial problems and what to expect in the future. .

    In the past ten years, the United States went from first to twelfth in the number of college graduates. This was a major concern for the President, who said that the first step to getting great again is to have more college graduates. President Obama declared that he aims for us to be number one again by 2020. He also wants to change the way federal student loans are administered by redirecting money so it goes directly to students. This will make college more affordable, because it will not have to go through the banks. Another way to get more students enrolled is to make sure Pell grants will keep up with inflation. He wants to make sure that no one is paying no more than 10% of income per month paying back student loans.

    Another thing the Administration is concerned with is whether or not college educational programs prepare students for the workforce. They also want more students to complete college. More than half of minority students don't earn a degree. It's up to students to finish, but the Administration is trying to remove barriers. The key is to open the door for more people, so they succeed in life. Another plan announced is the "Dream Act," which will stop punishing young people because their parents were illegal, by letting them go to school or serve in the armed forces.

    President Obama does not believe in the idea that Generation Y is the "Lost Generation." They will be just fine. We've just gotten through the worst financial crises since the Great Depression. With degrees in math and science, and good communication skills, they will be fine. The Greatest Generation went through worse, with unemployment at 30%. Starting in 2014, people will cap their student debt at 10% of their salary.

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