Riaz.Sohail: 2008

Power tarrif in Sindh Challenged:
Sindh is paying higher traffic than other provinces of the country. Provincial irrigation departemtn has filed a petition, where in federal govt, HESCO and Wapda have been made party.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/09/080917_power_tariff_sindh_rh.shtml

Osama Waheed Younger Brother of Corps Commandar attack case accused Dr Akmal and Arshad waheed is missing. His father has filed a petition in SHC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/10/081017_commander_attack_rh.shtml

Prison riots erupted over keeping mobile fone in Jail
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/10/081004_jail_riot_hydra_ra.shtml

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Riaz Sohail, Tharparkar district, Sindh province, 1130 GMT
The entire district has been turned into a no-go area for Pakistan People's Party activists.
There were particularly strong reports of ballot boxes being stuffed by rival candidates in the sub district of Chachro.
When I went to check these reports I was fired on.
I joined at least 200 PPP supporters who had been repelled by the firing. At least five of them were injured. They said they had not been allowed to vote. … Read More….. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7250020.stm

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At least 68 people have been killed after a bomb attack aboard a train travelling fro
Tuesday, 20-February-2007
almotamar.net google - The BBC Urdu servcie reporter in Karachi, Riaz Sohail, met a few of the survivors who returned to their homes in Pakistan.
The explosion took place just over an hour and a half after the train had left Delhi. The passengers were resting.
The train got ablaze immediately and everybody started screaming. During this time the doors were closed and people were shouting for the train to stop.
The train stopped after 15 minutes when it reached the platform at Panipat. I was travelling with my husband and our three children. We were sitting near the door way and me and my husband jumped out the moment the doors of the carriage opened. My husband then went back in to get the kids. After helping two of them our, he passed out due to smoke inhalation. My son was still inside. At that point I went into the carriage myself. I couldn't see anything, so I shouted his name until I heard his voice. That's how I managed to get him out. I saw three Sikhs trying to help passengers, but they got caught in the blaze and died. I am still in shock and unable to believe what happened. It all seems like a nightmare.
It's like I have been granted a new life, that's how I feel, I am back in my homeland, what could be better than that. I was in the carriage in front of the two that caught fire. The train took a while to stop. The doors of one carriage did not open and everybody inside was killed. The flames were huge and everybody was in shock.

RUKHSANA KHATOONI travel every year to meet my Indian husband.
He was refused a visa to come to Pakistan and I have to visit him in India with our children. I was lucky not to be in the affected carriage. When the fire started I thought it was the last journey I would ever make. The explosion took place soon after the train left Delhi. At that point, someone pulled the emergency cord and the train stopped a while later.
http://www.almotamar.net/en/2043.htm
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The judge, noted for his firm line on government misdeeds and human rights abuses, denies the allegations. 'Interfering'The
BBC's Riaz Sohail in Karachi says at least 200 lawyers broke into the empty assembly building in the southern city of Karachi in a symbolic protest.
They were protesting against remarks by Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Arbab Rahim who backed President Musharraf's decision to remove Mr Chaudhry from his post. Mr Rahim had said that all provinces had filed complaints against the chief justice "for interfering in affairs of the government". Our correspondent says that this was in reference to court orders to police and local administration officials regarding cases of official negligence or abuse of power.

The lawyers chanted slogans against the federal and provincial governments, and said that Mr Rahim's remarks amounted to contempt of court. In related incidents in Karachi, two lawyers had their local bar membership suspended after they took part in a demonstration in favour of the presidential order. Another lawyer was beaten up by colleagues for attempting to enter the city courts.
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Progress of the opposition
18/02/2008 - Skjøt etter korrespondent * BBC-korrespondent Riaz Sohail ble skutt etter, da han nærmet seg et valglokale i landsbyen Natario i Sindh -provinsen for å undersøke påstander om valgfusk. 18/02/2008 - Solderless
* BBC correspondent after correspondent Riaz Sohail was shot after, when he approached a polling station in the village Natario in Sindh province to investigate allegations of Electoral fraud. I provinsene Baluchistan og Sindh meldes det om 35 prosent... In the provinces of Baluchistan and Sindh reported that about 35 percent ...
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Shot by correspondent * BBC-korrespondent Riaz Sohail ble skutt etter, da han nærmet seg et valglokale i landsbyen Natario i Sindh-provinsen for å undersøke påstander om valgfusk. * BBC correspondent Riaz Sohail was shot after, when he approached a polling station in the village Natario in Sindh province to investigate allegations of Electoral fraud. Aktivister fra Pakistan People's Party (PPP) og vanlige velgere ble også skutt etter. Activists from the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and ordinary voters were also shot for.
* I Karachi blokkerte demonstranter fra Awami National Party (ANP) flere veier og kastet stein etter kjøretøyer. * In Karachi, blocked demonstranter from the Awami National Party (ANP) more roads and threw stones after the vehicles. Årsaken skal ha vært et angrep på deres kandidat. The reason to have been an attack on their candidate.
* Skudd mot et valglokale i Gujranwala i Punjab-regionen, førte til at stemmegivningen ble avbrutt. * Skudd to a polling station in Gujranwala in the Punjab region, led to the voting was interrupted.
* Hovedfunksjonæren ved et valglokale i det østlige Karachi – hvor PPP står svært sterkt – sa at politieskorten hans kjørte ham til feil sted. * The main officials at a polling station in the eastern Karachi - where the PPP is very strong - said police korten his driving him to the wrong place. Han skal ha blitt satt av fem kilometer fra det riktige lokalet, noe som førte til at stemmegivningen ble forsinket med fem timer. He should have been set by five kilometers from the appropriate premises, which led to the voting was delayed for five hours. http://translate.google.com.pk/translate?hl=en&sl=no&u=http://bergenspuls.no/utenriks/article511946.ece&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522riaz%2Bsohail%2522%26start%3D110%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Pakistan - A Perpetual Abu Gharaib?
Here is an extract from this month’s Herald magazine (‘Raw Deal’ by Riaz Sohail, page 33)
"JSMM [Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz] Vice Chairman Samiullah Kalhoro [was] picked up by plain clothesmen from a Sindh University workshop in Jamshoro where Kolhoro worked as a technician.
Kalhoro was severely tortured during his incommunicado detention and his body was irreparably damaged when his captors subjected him to cheera, a form of torture in which the legs of a subject are spread so wide that the ligaments in the groin begin to tear. He managed to escape from police custody in Hala on February 13 and was able to reach Karachi where he addressed a press conference. Soon, however, he had to be admitted to the Agha Khan University Hospital where he died on 5 March.…Apart from the devastating effects of cheera Kalhoro also had naswar mixed with hot water pumped up his nose and was given a petrol enema. In a letter he posted from an unknown location after having escaped from Hala police, Kalhoro told his family about his condition. ‘Both my kidneys are damaged…Three of my teeth are broken [and] my eyesight has gone’.
He said that his interrogators wanted him to testify that JSMM chairman Shafi Burfat and general secretary Asghar Ali were RAW [i.e. Indian] agents."

Saturday, October 11, 2008

October 2008

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sept 2008

Flour Mills strike
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/09/080923_flour_mills_strike_sz.shtml

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Spt 2008

Benazir Bhutto Tribunal ends
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/09/080910_bhutto_tribunal.shtml

Aamir Liquat expelled from MQM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/09/080910_mqm_expelled.shtml

Two Ahmedis killed in Sindh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/09/080910_ahmedi_killing_rh.shtml

Petition agains Saeed Zaman Siddiqui
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080827_saeeduz_petition_si.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080818_bilawal_president_ppp_rh.shtml

Aafia sister
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080805_fauzia_afia_sister_presser_rh.shtml

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Go Musharraf Go in Sindh also

Hindu Boy Poverty
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080823_hindu_boy_poverty.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080818_bilawal_president_ppp_rh.shtml

Karachi Talibanization
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080804_karachi_talibanisation_ra.shtml

afia_sister
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080805_fauzia_afia_sister_presser_rh.shtml

Shamshan ghat Karachi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/07/080724_kar_shamshan_sen.shtml

Go Musharraf Go in Sindh also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080813_sindh_resolution_rza.shtml

Monday, August 11, 2008

August 2008 stories

Dr Afia Siddiqui HRCP Appeal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080805_fauzia_afia_sister_presser_rh.shtml
Be aware of Taliban in Karachi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/08/080804_karachi_talibanisation_ra.shtml

Interest rates rises : State Bank of Pakistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/07/080729_sbp_monetary_policy_rh.shtml

Attack on Hindu temple in Jacobabad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/07/080726_hindu_pak_prot_ra.shtml

Film actor Malik Anokha is dead

Friday, August 1, 2008

july 2008

Friday, July 25, 2008

Barriers in the development of Sindhi journalism

Barriers in the development of Sindhi journalism
Riaz Sohail
Technology
Financial
Skill/ training and media education
Leadership
Scope and opportunities

characteristics of Sindhi journalism

Some characteristics of Sindhi journalism are:

Riaz Sohail

Public service traditions: It is less commercialise and have public service traditions, due to its increased political role

Having a political role: Till independence entire Press in sub continent had political role. Sindhi press not only inherited this legacy but due to strong cnete and tense relationship between provinces and centre, Sindhi press opted to stand with it people that is for more provincial rights and provincial autonomy. This continues till today. Sindhi press has strong opinion about water issue, NFC award, more power for provinces. Sindh and its rights

Opposed to the feudals:

Anti government

It is as peculiar as Sindhi society itself is:

Culture, archaeology, environment,

Human rights

Sindhi journalism is still in its formative phase, having political, economic constraints. This is also reflected in low income to the owners of the Sindhi media and low salaries to journalists. It is perception that journalists in Sindh are underpaid and financially exploited.

. There is dire need for training of Sindhi journalistic trainings for promotion of qualitative journalism.

. Majority of working journalists have non-media/journalism formal education.

. The journalists in Sindh face security threats on the part of local influential, law-enforcing agencies, student leaders and government.

crediblity: There was time when Sindhi was supposed to be less credible as compared with the Urdu and English journalism, however with new Sindhi journalism this has been vanished it is supposed to be equally credible to the English journalism.

. By the majority of journalists in Sindh objectivity is not practiced while in reporting and editing the news.

. In Sindh there just exists so-called press freedom.

. There is more need of journalism/media training schools for working journalists.

. Journalists in Sindh have played role for the stability of democracy.

. The general attitude of almost all state-governments has remained hostile towards press media.

. Desperately need education of media/press laws and ethics.

. State uses advertising and newsprint as tool to contain the press.

. The overall policy of press media towards state is neutral.

. Sindhi journalism has been playing to develop critical thinking among the people.

. Journalists in Sindh have political leanings towards one or another party.

. Sindhi journalists have been advocating the cause of nationalism.

. Majority of journalists in Sindh began their career in journalism without having prior formal journalistic training.

. Newspapers and press clubs are functioning as nurseries for those who are enthusiastic for the career in journalism.

. The journalists in Sindh work under pressure of being harassed and intimidated by local goon, political parties, student unions and law-enforcing agencies.

. Some journalists change their loyalties in favour of every new government.

. In Sindh some papers serve as mouth-piece of successive governments.

. The journalists in Sindh, do exercise self-censorship to some extent due to press laws.

. Compare to past the print news media has lost its credibility.

. Among the all Urdu, English and other regional print media in Pakistan, the Sindhi journalism is more outspoken.

. If any journalist could get chance of permanent government job he would prefer to leave the profession of journalism.

. Some population of journalists in Sindh, is doing this profession as part-time.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

May 2008

Interview of Sardar Mengal after release from Jail

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/05/080516_akhtarmengal_interview_rh.shtml

Taking justice in hands : Two accused burnt alive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/05/080515_karachi_killing_sen.shtml

Jinnah Mazar Rape case
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/05/080516_jinnah_mazar_rape.shtml

May 12 - One year completed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/05/080512_12may_puzzle_sen.shtml

Directive to Banks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/05/080509_court_bank_ka.shtml

Oil Prices
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080301_petrol_prices_sen.shtml
Karachi Power crisis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080306_kchi_kesc_crisis_rr.shtml

Impacts of October 18 0n life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/10/071026_karachi_effects_si.shtml

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

April 2008

MQM- PPP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/04/080430_mqm_ppp.shtml

Petrol Prices
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080301_petrol_prices_sen.shtml

Sindh Cabinet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/04/080429_sindh_cabinet_as.shtml

Thursday, March 27, 2008

April 2008

arbab rahim
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/04/080405_arbab_rahim_sen.shtml

sindh speaker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/04/080405_sindh_speaker_sen.shtml

Indian Monkey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/04/080403_indian_monkey_in_pak.shtml

Sindh Assembly First session
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/04/080404_sindh_assembly_first_session.shtml

Solangi Obituary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/entertainment/story/2008/04/080404_solangi_ms.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/04/080401_sindh_assembly_spk_ra.shtml

Pir Mazhar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080331_pirmazhar_acquittal_rh.shtml

PML-Q Missing from political secne
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080327_pmlq_sindh_riaz_uk.shtml

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Judgement reserved in Justice Nizam case
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080319_justicenizam_case_rh.shtml

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

March: unidentified persons killed in Karsaz

Bodies of unidentified persons killed in Karsaz bomb incident to be buried in Garhi Khuda Bux
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080312_larkana_bodies_fz.shtml

Friday, March 7, 2008

March 2008

Power load shedding in Karachi: Wapda reduces power supply to karachi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080307_kesc_power_wapda_rh.shtml

Why powerless people are aplogising, syas Akhtar Mengal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080305_mengal_statment_ra.shtml

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

March 2008

Bacloch react on apology
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080305_mengal_statment_ra.shtml

Killer of American diplomat hanged in Karachi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080305_karachi_sentencing_uk.shtml

Court orders to quash Cases against Zardari
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/03/080304_asif_nab_nro_rh.shtml

Minorities and general elections
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/elections08/story/2008/02/080213_minorities_polls_si.shtml

20 women elected on general seats in Pakistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080220_pak-women_member_zs.shtml

women elected on general seats in Sindh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080220_sind_women_zs.shtml

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

bird_flu

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080202_karachi_bird_flu_sen.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080205_bird_flue_sen.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080207_bb_tribunal_rh.shtml

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Election stories

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Sindh Rigging

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/elections08/story/2008/02/080221_sindh_rigging.shtml

Women memebrs elected on general seats

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080220_pak-women_member_zs.shtml

Women memebrs elected on general seats In Sindh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080220_sind_women_zs.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/elections08/story/2008/02/080217_sind_curtainraiser_zs.shtml

Minorities and polls
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/elections08/story/2008/02/080213_minorities_polls_si.shtml

Karachi Situation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080212_kchi_situation_rza.shtml

Benazir tribunal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/02/080207_bb_tribunal_rh.shtml

Jamat Islami Boycot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/12/071217_jamat_boycot_riaz-ra.shtml
Election candidates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/elections08/story/2008/02/080216_election_candidates_si.shtml

Nominations rejected
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/12/071204_nomination_rejection_si.shtml

Minorities polls
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/elections08/story/2008/02/080213_minorities_polls_si.shtml

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Jan 2008 stories

Karachi Bomb blast time line Jan 2008

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/01/080115_violence_history_fz.shtml

Karsaz Tribunal hearing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/01/080103_karsaz_tribunal_si.shtml

Violence in Sindh: post Benazir murder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/01/080102_sindh_violence_ra.shtml

marriage_cancelled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2008/01/080101_marriage_cancellations_rh.shtml

Railway accident History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/12/071219_derail_history_si.shtml

Lawyers arrested
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071108_arrested_lawyers_si.shtml

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Benzir Bhutto assasination