• June 30, 2020
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE: An accountability court Monday extended judicial remand of Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman for 22 days, till July 21, in a case pertaining to the purchase of a private piece of land more than 30 years ago. Lahore accountability court duty judge, Jawadul Hassan, heard the Jauhar Town private property purchase case against Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman […]

• June 30, 2020
• Freedom of Expression

ISLAMABAD—Freedom Network on Monday demanded that Press Information Department (PID) take a serious view of a video in which death threats were hurled to television presenters Hamid Mir of Geo News and Muhammad Malick of 92 News. Mir, in a tweet, said that a cleric from Rawalpindi abused some opposition leaders and honorable judges in […]

• June 30, 2020
• Freedom of Expression, Media Ethics

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has issued a show cause notice to ARY, Dunya TV, 24 News, Public TV and GTV for airing fake news. According to the authority, the new channels ran news regarding the termination and suspension of Pakistani pilots and engineers working for Kuwait Airways. The channels have been directed to […]

• June 29, 2020
• Freedom of Expression

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will take up on Monday the Sindh government’s request for urgent hearing of its appeal against the overturning of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh’s conviction for the killing of Wall Street Journal (WSJ) bureau chief Daniel Pearl. The apex court at the last hearing on June 1 had asked the Sindh government to furnish complete record […]

• June 29, 2020
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz said on Sunday that provision of financial support to press clubs and deserving journalists across the country was the top priority of present government. Addressing a ceremony organised at the Press Information Department for financial support of various press clubs, he said it was the long-standing […]

• June 29, 2020
• General News

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Nawabshah police on Saturday submitted the charge-sheet of senior journalist Aziz Memon’s murder case in the Kandiaro court. The body of Mr Memon, who had a long association with the Sindhi language Kawish newspaper and news channel, was found floating in a water channel in Mehrabpur in February. Initially, police believed it was […]

• June 28, 2020
• Freedom of Expression

Islamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-N Senator Musaddik Malik got embroiled into a controversy after he said on national television that a certain journalist “should be set on fire” for not being respectful enough towards victims of the PIA plane crash tragedy. “This Tahir [the journalist] sahib, I don’t know who he is. Is he the head […]

• June 28, 2020
• General News

Many senior journalists, and observers of the media in Pakistan often complain about new or younger media professionals who have become self-styled promoters of chauvinism, jingoism and sectarian tendencies in the country. This point appears to have some truth in it. We find an overwhelming majority of professionals in the media belonging to a mindset […]

• June 28, 2020
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have urged authorities at Pakistan railways to restore concessional tickets to the journalist community and their families. In a joint statement, President PFUJ Shahzada Zulfiqar and Secretary General Nasir Zaidi said that concessional tickets for journalists and their families is a decades old facility which has never been […]

• June 28, 2020
• General News

It’s been a year since the sudden passing of Mr. Anil Datta but I still find it hard to believe that he’s left us. I always addressed him as Mr. Datta because he called me Mrs. Saiyid formally, simply because that was his preferred form and I respected it. Mr. Datta was a totally professional […]

• June 28, 2020
• Freedom of Expression

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday fixed the hearing of the US journalist Daniel Pearl murder case for June 29. A three-member bench of the top court will hear the Sindh government and Daniel Pearl parents plea seeking suspension of the Sindh High Court’s (SHC) judgment regarding acquitting/ releasing the accused in Daniel […]

• June 28, 2020
• Obituaries

KARACHI Veteran journalist Abu Talib Nizami, better known as A.T. Nizami, passed away, his family and friends said on Saturday. He was 88. “He tested positive for Covid-19 a few days ago and was in self-isolation at home but his health deteriorated and he died on June 25,” said his wife Nuzhat Nizami. He was […]

• June 27, 2020
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday filed its reference before an accountability court in a 34-year-old land allotment case against Jang group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and two others. The reference filed under section 18 (g) read with section 24 (b) of the National Accountability Ordinance 1999 accused […]

• June 26, 2020
• Broadcasting, Freedom of Expression

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on June 25 introduced a set of restrictive directives for reporting and coverage of COVID-19 by television channels. The restrictions imposed in the directives include “any violence at hospitals, emergency situation, attack, offensive behavior towards healthcare workers may not be telecast in order to protect honor and dignity […]