• March 25, 2021
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has issued advice on airing unsubstantiated and biased analysis regarding National Accountability Bureau (NAB). A statement issued by PEMRA said it has been monitored with concerns that Satellite TV licensees of (news & current affairs category) are indulged in airing highly unsubstantiated, judgmental and unipolar remarks […]

• March 24, 2021
• Front Page

The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is concerned over the registration of terrorism of cases against journalists as an alarming misuse of authority and works as a tool to intimidate the media thus limiting the space for free expression, objective reporting and holding power to account. On March 15, police registered a case against protestors and […]

• March 24, 2021
• Print Media

KARACHI: The Extraordinary General Council and the Annual General Council of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society will meet on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 10:00am and 11:00am respectively at the APNS House, Gulistan Jauhar, and Karachi. A press release of the APNS stated that Sarmad Ali, Secretary General, All Pakistan Newspapers Society, has announced that […]

• March 24, 2021
• Obituaries

FAISALABAD: Senior journalist, Bureau Chief daily ‘The news’ Sardar Mohammad Akhtar has passed away after a protracted illness here. His funeral procession was taken out from his residence and Namaz-e-Janaza was offered at Khizra Masjid D-Block People’s Colony. A large number of people belonging to all walks of life including journalists, traders, business, industrialists, lawyers […]

• March 24, 2021
• General News

KARACHI: A session’s court has directed the investigating officer to produce witnesses for recording of their testimonies in the case pertaining to murder of TV anchorperson Mureed Abbas and another person over a dispute allegedly involving shady investments worth billions of rupees. Atif Zaman and his brother Adil Zaman have been charged with killing his […]

• March 24, 2021
• Social Media

Facebook has proposed to initiate a number of projects in Pakistan, with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) offering the social media platform to open its first Pakistan office in the province. According to a local media report, Advisor to KP Chief Minister (CM) on Science and Technology & Information Technology, Zia Ullah Khan Bangash, held a meeting […]

• March 24, 2021
• General News

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Jang Group reporter Malik Mumtaz, a journalist from North Waziristan who was martyred in a targeted attack back in 2013, has been awarded the Sitara-e-Shujaat — Star of Bravery — at the Pakistan Day awards ceremony held at the President House. Malik Mumtaz, who was associated with Geo/Jang Group, always highlighted and wrote about […]

• March 23, 2021
• Right to Information

LAHORE: The social audit report, carried out by the Punjab Information Commission to assess the implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013, has revealed that no provincial department implemented the Act 100 per cent during the past year. According to the documents available with this reporter, the social audit of 200 government departments was […]

• March 23, 2021
• General News

Journalists, Social activists, and workers of nationalist parties staged a demonstration outside Mirpur press club demanding arrest of people involved in the Murder of journalist Ajay Kumar Lalwani who was gunned down by two unknown assailants in Salehpat a few days ago. During the protests Journalist Karim Dad Chandio, Intizar Khati, Irfan Khowaja, Darya Khan […]

• March 23, 2021
• Freedom of Expression

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC), on Monday, suspended a summon issued by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to the former chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Absar Alam. A single bench of Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the petition of the former chairman PEMRA, and also summoned the investigation officer of the FIA […]

• March 23, 2021
• Freedom of Expression

Pakistan Resolution was a culmination of several years of struggle for freedom. Striving for independent states, the Resolution of 23rd March 1940 called for the provision of rights of minorities in the subcontinent. By its very essence, this landmark document makes a case for civil liberties. This concise document clearly chalks out the need for […]

• March 23, 2021
• Social Media

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has blocked access to around 500,000 objectionable videos on the popular video-sharing application TikTok in the country, a single-member Peshawar High Court bench was told on Monday. During the hearing into a case regarding the court’s recent ban on TikTok in the country, PTA lawyer Jehanzeb Mehsud also told Chief […]

• March 23, 2021
• Media and Governance

QUETTA: Balochistan Governor retired Justice Amanullah Yasinzai has said that democracy cannot survive without a fully independent and free media and only a true democratic order was panacea for all the problems being faced by the country. Speaking at the oath-taking ceremony of office-bearers of the Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) here on Monday, he […]

• March 23, 2021
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE: A Pakistani-British man who was on death row for 18 years before his acquittal in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl was transferred on Monday to a government safe house for security reasons, police said. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh was handed over to the Punjab Counter-Terrorism department amid tight security, a senior […]