• March 4, 2022
• General News

Senior journalist Asma Shirazi has served a defamation notice on Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Capital Development Authority Ali Nawaz Awan over his allegation that the journalist had taken money from the ruling PTI’s opponents for writing articles critical of the government. In the legal notice, which Asma Shirazi shared on her Twitter […]

• March 4, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Social media accounts of Pakistan’s embassy in Algeria have been hacked, a Foreign Office spokesperson said on Wednesday. “The Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts of the Embassy of Pakistan in Algeria have been hacked,” the spokesperson tweeted. “All messages being posted through these accounts are not from Pakistan Embassy in Algeria,” he added. Last […]

• March 4, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: A number of bodies representing electronic and print media organisations filed petitions with the Islamabad High Court challenging the amen­dments in the Prevention of Elect­ronic Crimes Act (Peca) on Wednesday. The Pakistan Broadcasters Association, All Pakistan Newspapers Society, Association of Electronic Media Editors and News Directors, and the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors requested […]

• March 4, 2022
• Right to Information

ABBOTTABAD: The province’s first appellate forum regarding the decisions of the Right to Information Commission became functional here on Thursday. RTI information commissioner Riaz Khan Daudzai took up several complaints on the occasion and directed public information officers of the Abbottabad and Haripur police department, Mansehra mineral development department and Abbottabad district education office to […]

• March 4, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday submitted a resolution to the National Assembly Secretariat, seeking to disapprove the controversial ordinance promulgated by the government last month putting curbs on media freedom by amending the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) 2016. The resolution was submitted by Marriyum Aurangzeb, the PML-N information […]

• March 4, 2022
• General News

A Media Freedom Round Table Conference organised by the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) rejected all “black laws” against the media, including the PECA Ordinance. Participants of the conference said that this was not the first time that the government was trying to suppress freedom of the press, freedom of expression and access to […]