• April 23, 2021
• General News

Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said PTI government will include the journalist community in Prime Minister’s housing and health card schemes. Talking to a private television channel, he said ruling party has a strong wish to provide shelter and health cards to the journalists discharging duties in big cities. Replying to […]

• April 23, 2021
• Social Media

Pakistan seems to be on a slippery slope this year as the country continues to show dismal performance in international rankings. First it was the Corruption Perceptions Index, then the Global Gender Gap Index, and now Pakistan has managed to dropped down to the 90th ranking, out of 120, on the Inclusive Internet Index — […]

• April 23, 2021
• Freedom of Expression

KARACHI: A Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) delegation called on Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah in the Sindh Assembly on Thursday, says a handout. President KUJ Nizamuddin Siddiqui, general secretary Fahim Siddiqui and other KUJ office-bearers participated while the provincial minister was assisted by secretary information Rafiq Ahmed Buriro and others. The meeting discussed […]

• April 23, 2021
• Social Media

Pakistan ranks the lowest among South Asian countries in terms of access to the internet, as measured by the Economist’s Intelligence Unit. The report on internet usage among 120 countries puts Pakistan at 90th place, well behind India which occupies the 49th position followed by Sri Lanka at 77th. Even Iran, recognized as a closed […]

• April 23, 2021
• General News

Courtesy of the so-called media crisis, Pakistani newsrooms have been losing strong voices on women, and the vacuum created by it has been filled by the management with lower journalistic standards, said the gender adviser for UN Women in Pakistan, Muhammad Younas Khalid, on Wednesday. Khalid was addressing a webinar hosted by the Uks Research […]

• April 23, 2021
• General News

CIA police staff have arrested two people for allegedly posing themselves as journalists and recovered a weapon maintained without license from their possession. Official sources disclosed Thursday that Sheikh Tuseef and his fellow Irfan alias Fani were held from Jamal road, near Taleri Canal after raid conducted on tip off. They were shifted to CIA […]