• October 5, 2021
• General News

PESHAWAR: A convention arranged by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) here on Monday rejected the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) and termed it an effort to suppress the voice of independent media and deprive people of their right to know. The participants of the convention at […]

• October 5, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry Monday informed the relevant committee of the Senate that the draft bill for the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) would be finalized in consultation with all the stakeholders. Chairing a meeting of the Committee on Information and Broadcasting, Senator Faisal Javed of PTI remarked, “We […]

• October 5, 2021
• Right to Information

ISLAMABAD: The information minister has disapproved of an amendment bill introduced by the ruling party’s lawmakers in Senate that seeks to exclude both the houses of the parliament from the ambit of the Right to Information Act. “Since the government wants transparency in governance and the parliament’s proceedings, it does not want to keep any […]

• October 5, 2021
• General News

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Monday said that the issue of fake news is serious and legislation against it is being done all over the world. Speaking to the journalists outside Parliament House, the minister said that legislation against fake news would be done in Pakistan with the consultation of all stakeholders. […]

• October 5, 2021
• Front Page

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the online smear campaign against senior journalist and NewsOne anchorperson Gharida Farooqi. Attacks against journalists in particular gendered attacks online are a worrying trend in Pakistan and must be condemned to ensure the safety of media personnel. According to the Coalition for Women in Journalism, in the last week on […]

• October 5, 2021
• Front Page

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali was re-elected to the Global Forum for Media Development’s Steering Committee for the Asia region. The new steering committee was elected at the GFMD General Assembly on September 30 and October 1 in Tirana, Albania. During his first term as a member of the GFMD Steering […]

• October 4, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has announced that the party will sue the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) for wrongly mentioning the name of Junaid Safdar, the son of Maryam Nawaz, in its report on the Pandora Papers. Marriyum Aurangzeb, the party’s information secretary, alleged in a statement on Sunday that the PTI government had […]

• October 4, 2021
• Right to Information

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting is scheduled to consider a bill aimed at excluding both the houses of parliament from the ambit of ‘Right of Access to Information Act’ and subsequently to keep its information confidential. As per agenda of the meeting to be held on Monday, the standing committee will […]

• October 4, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The infi­ghting among top officials of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Autho­rity (Pemra) has turned into a bone of contention between the media watchdog and the ministry of information and broadcasting, Dawn can reveal. The documents placed before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) have served to highlight the issue. The papers have been submitted […]

• October 3, 2021
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

On October 3, 2003, a reporter for a Sindhi-language newspaper the daily Kawish and for Kavish Television News, Ameer Bux Brohi, was shot dead in Shikarpur in the Sindh province by two unidentified gunmen in front of the local police station. He was shot five times and was rushed to the Shikarpur Civil Hospital by police, where he […]

• October 3, 2021
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

 اکتوبر 2003 کو سندھی زبان کے ایک اخبار روزنامہ کاوش اور کاوش ٹیلی ویژن نیوز کے رپورٹر امیر بخش بروہی کو صوبہ سندھ کے شہر شکار پور میں دو نامعلوم مسلح افراد نے مقامی پولیس اسٹیشن کے سامنے گولی مار کر ہلاک کر دیا تھا ۔ انہیں پانچ گولیاں لگیں اور پولیس نے  انہیں فوراً شکار […]

• October 3, 2021
• Broadcasting

PEMRA has sent a notice to Juggan Kazim’s morning show on ATV for airing content that it deemed as inappropriate and asked the channel to respond to its complaint in seven days. Pemra likely took note of the episode since it aired on September 24 and soon surfaced on Twitter with calls for the show […]

• October 3, 2021
• General News

CPNE-1KARACHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has expressed serious concern at reports of the government’s intention to remove some newspapers from the media list and warned of protests if such a decision is taken. The standing committee of CPNE met via video link on Friday. The meeting was presided over by acting president […]

• October 2, 2021
• Freedom of Expression

Journalist Gharidah Farooqi is no stranger to online attacks but the past few days has seen a new vicious campaign against her which has been condemned by journalists and press rights bodies including the Coalition for Women in Journalism. Social media users have targeted Farooqi and said she is one of the women in Sunday’s […]