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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Wednesday that social media was the major weapon used in the past few days with an aim to destroy peace in Pakistan. Addressing a presser in context of the agreement signed between the government and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), he said the interior ministry held a […]
ISLAMABAD: An FIR has been registered in senior journalist and former Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority chairman Absar Alam attack case in Shalimar Police Station. The other day, a gunman fired at Mr Alam when he was walking in a Park in F-11/2 near his house. The case was registered against the unidentified person in […]
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhry said on Wednesday that he had resumed the process of reforms in his ministry that he had begun in 2018. The measures include the revamping and modernisation of the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV). The minister said in a series of tweets the PTV News had been given a deadline […]
The attack on Absar Alam, a senior journalist and former chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Authority (Pemra) was an alarming event that has alerted the journalist community, civil society and law enforcement officials alike. It is extremely relieving that the senior journalist has survived the attack and is out of danger now. However, this by […]
KARACHI – Sindh Governor Imran Ismail has said that all possible steps will be taken to solve the problems faced by the journalist community and the present government has always worked for the welfare of journalists and will continue to do so. He said this while talking to a five-member delegation of Hyderabad Union of […]
Washington: The United States on Thursday expressed grave concerns over the attack of Pakistan’s leading journalist Absar Alam in Islamabad and called on local authorities to apprehend the culprits.In a tweet, the US Department of State: the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) said freedom of the press and the protection of journalists […]
ISLAMABAD: While hearing a review petition of a sitting judge of the Supreme Court (SC), Justice Qazi Faez Isa, against a smaller bench’s ruling on the presidential reference against him on Tuesday, a larger bench asked him to respond to three questions in the matter. Heading a 10-member larger bench Justice Umer Ata Bandial asked […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is alarmed and concerned at the murder attempt on Absar Alam and strongly supports calls for a judicial inquiry into the attack so that the motives and identities of the perpetrators behind the attack are uncovered. Alam, who is the former chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and former […]
LONDON: Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh’s father has claimed his son was not responsible for the tragic killing of the American journalist, Daniel Pearl but has been denied justice for nearly two decades. He says his son remains in a limbo despite the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s decision clearing him of all charges. Speaking to this […]
ISLAMABAD/ PARIS: The annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday that journalism was at least partly blocked in nearly three-quarters of the 180 countries surveyed. Its World Press Freedom Index found 73 countries “totally blocked or seriously impeded” journalism, while it was “constrained” in 59 others, adding that many governments had used the […]
Sindh Information Secretary Rafiq Ahmed Buriro said on Tuesday that every step is being taken to improve the laws related to the welfare of the media and, particularly, journalists with a view to provide a conducive atmosphere for their sustained growth. Secretary Buriro said this to senior newsmen during a meeting at his office, where […]
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