• August 16, 2021
• Front Page

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) welcomes the Pakistan government’s move to facilitate the visas of journalists and media personnel in Afghanistan. We urge our partners to share the information with their networks to facilitate the safe exit of journalists in Afghanistan in the midst of the current uncertain times. On August 15, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan […]

• August 16, 2021
• Social Media

ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Sunday that as more people were shifting to digital media, it was set to define media landscape in Pakistan in near future. Talking to representatives of digital media platforms here, the Minister said that there was need to check fake news, sectarian […]

• August 16, 2021
• General News

LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has pledged to fight against the incumbent government’s efforts to gag freedom of expression through the so-called Media Development Authority bill. Punjab PPP senior vice-president Chaudhry Aslam Gill and deputy general secretary Usman Malik said that the party would resist all attempts to impose a ‘curfew’ on the freedom […]

• August 16, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Despite resistance from the opposition parties and representatives of media organizations, federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday again expressed the government’s desire to set up an authority in to regulate mainstream as well as social media the country. “We need to think over fake news, sectarian news and hate material. […]

• August 16, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have out rightly rejected the misleading statements of Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry in support of the proposed bill for the creation of Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA).“By issuing such misleading statements to justify the creation of media authority, the information minister is not only damaging his […]

• August 16, 2021
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting, Senator Faisal Javed inaugurated a Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) facility here at Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU). In collaboration with Power 99 Islamabad, the university has recently established a Digital podcasting setup to facilitate different departments, schools, and centers at the university in their educational and co-curricular […]