• September 13, 2021
• General News

LONDON: Pakistani journalists in Britain condemned the Pakistan government’s plans seeking unchecked powers to punish journalists and news organization’s to further implement the draconian censorship. At a huge protest held outside the Pakistan High Commission premises here in solidarity with the journalist community in Pakistan, dozens of journalists gathered for a protest to condemn the […]

• September 13, 2021
• Media and Governance

Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Secretary Information Marriyum Aurangzeb has slammed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for its “draconian and autocratic measures to defy Pakistani journalists their constitutional right to peaceful protest” “Draconian measures of fascist Imran Khan to block democratic & peaceful protest by journalists from across the country against the BLACK Pakistan Media […]

• September 13, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Protesting against the government’s plan to bulldoze the Pakis­tan Media Development Autho­rity (PMDA) legislation through a joint sitting of parliament, the journalist fraternity began a sit-in outside the Parliament House here on Sunday evening. The protesting journalists marched from the National Press Club and reached outside the Parliament House where they planned to stay […]

• September 13, 2021
• General News

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami announced rejecting the controversial Pakistan Media Development Authority Bill (PMDA), terming it undemocratic and contrary to the requirements of Constitution guaranteeing freedom of expression, and advised the PTI government to shun its ambitions to take control of media. Government’s obstinacy to proceed with the controversial legislation when journalists unions, human rights organization’s and […]

• September 13, 2021
• General News

The government and its ministers, notably Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, have been on a mission to promote the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA). They are doing this despite the fact that every credible media organization, union, rights network, progressive association in the country – ranging from the PFUJ to the APNS to the CPNE to […]