01 | December | 2019 | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

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Daily Archives: December 1, 2019

Sana’s legal team boycotts court proceeding against media ban

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LAHORE: The legal team of former law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan on Saturday boycotted trial proceedings of drug case in protest against ban on media coverage and restriction on lawyers’ entrance to a special court for Control of Narcotics Substance (CNS) by the police. A police contingent deployed outside the courtroom manhandled lawyers and did […]


The unpaid journalist

Pakistan Press Foundation

Dear All, Out of all the many exciting things I could write about this week, I have, for various reasons, chosen to write about the media environment in Pakistan and how journalists seem to be bearing the brunt of the crisis of indirect censorship. Today, we do not have the clarity of the sort of […]


PTA strongly reacts to report on internet freedom

Pakistan Press Foundation

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has strongly protested with Freedom House, a US-based organisation, while terming its report on Pakistan regarding internet freedom heavily biased and one-sided. The PTA through a letter conveyed its concerns to the Freedom House and advised the organisation to suitably amend the report, and in future review the findings of the […]