• August 24, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Housing and Works told the Public Accounts Committee on Monday that after the establishment of Federal Government Employees Housing Authority, a proposal has been floated to abolish the quota for lawyers, doctors and journalists while the plots be only given to the government employees. The meeting of the Public Accounts Committee […]

• August 24, 2021
• Media and Governance

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet is set to take up and approve on Tuesday (today) the draft bill for establishment of the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA), sources in the government told Dawn. The controversial bill has been strongly opposed by the owners of media houses and workers, but the information ministry has repeatedly expressed its […]

• August 24, 2021
• Obituaries

KARACHI: Sarmad Ali, President, Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani, Secretary General, All Pakistan Newspapers Society have expressed profound grief on behalf of APNS office-bearers and members of the Executive Committee over the sad demise of Afzal Hussain Naqvi, Chairman City News Network and uncle of Syed Mohsin Naqvi, publisher, Daily City 42, Lahore. The APNS offered condolence […]

• August 24, 2021
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Fawad Chaudhry Monday said that the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) would be authorized to impose a fine of up to Rs250 million on television channels against the current upper limit of Rs1 million in the existing laws. In an interaction with digital broadcasters here, Fawad said […]

• August 24, 2021
• Social Media

ISLAMABAD   – The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday directed the authorities to raise the issue of banning the video-sharing platform TikTok in the federal cabinet. A single bench of IHC comprising Chief Justice of IHC Justice Athar Minallah issued the directions while hearing the matter wherein he had already directed the Secretary Ministry of Information […]

• August 24, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday held in abeyance Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s order on harassment and intimidation of journalists, saying it is difficult to be implemented. A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan, Justice Muneeb Akhtar, Justice Qazi Muhammad […]

• August 24, 2021
• Freedom of Expression

Twelve years ago, on August 24, 2009, the bureau chief based in Peshawar for Afghanistan’s Shamshad Television, Janullah Hashimzada, was shot to death while travelling back from Afghanistan on a minibus near Jamrud in the northwestern Khyber district of Pakistan. At the time, the then Peshawar Press Club President Shamim Shahid said that the incident […]

• August 23, 2021
• Social Media

ISLAMABAD   –   Islamabad High Court (IHC) will today (Monday) resume hearing in a petition filed against banning of popular social media platform TikTok by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). A single bench of the IHC comprising Chief Justice of IHC Justice Athar Minallah will hear the matter wherein he had already directed the Secretary Ministry of […]

• August 21, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday said promotion of completely impartial, independent and responsible journalism in the country was the government’s top priority. He said this while presiding over a meeting on the steps to be taken for evacuation of foreign journalists in Afghanistan. Other issues related to media were also discussed. The meeting was […]

• August 21, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD   – Taking suo moto notice of journalist’s harassment, the Supreme Court of Pakistan Friday issued notices to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and summoned the Agency DG in-person with the entire original record of the cases against journalists. A two-member bench of the apex court headed by […]

• August 21, 2021
• General News

Pakistan People’s Party Secretary General Farhatullah Babar on Friday expressed grave concern over the state’s apathy towards the disappearance of journalist, writer and active progressive voice on social media Mudasar Naru three years ago and called for his safe recovery urgently. Journalist Mudassar disappeared on this day three years ago. A few months ago his […]

• August 21, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Key stakeholders of the media and civil society have completely rejected as draconian and unacceptable both the government proposal to create a new authority to regulate the entire spectrum of the country’s media sector, including print, electronic, digital and film, as well as its attempt to wrongly claim support for it, a joint statement […]

• August 21, 2021
• Freedom of Expression

آٹھ سال قبل 21 اگست 2013 کے اس بدنصیب دن لاپتہ صحافی حاجی عبدالرزاق سربازی کی لاش کراچی میں پائی گئی تھی۔ بلوچی زبان کے اخبار ڈیلی توار کے کاپی ایڈیٹر عبدالرزاق 24 مارچ 2013 سے شہر سے لاپتہ تھے۔ پاکستان پریس فاؤنڈیشن (پی پی ایف) سے بات کرتے ہوئے سعیدہ سربازی نے کہا کہ […]

• August 21, 2021
• Freedom of Expression

On this fateful day, eight years ago on August 21, 2013, the body of the missing journalist, Haji Abdul Razzak Sarbazi, was found in Karachi. A copy editor for the Balochi-language newspaper Daily Tawar, Abdul Razzak had been missing from the city since March 24, 2013. Speaking to Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), Saeeda Sarbazi said […]