HYDERABAD: Senior vice chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said the PTI government doesn’t believe in curbs on the media, but it wants the media to play its role with responsibility. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, he said the changes to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes […]
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker and PMLQ leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Sunday urged the prime minister to “beware of his advisers who are misleading him and creating a gulf between him and the media.” Pervaiz Elahi stated to have noted with deep concern the decision of PTI advising its members not to participate in programmes […]
Provincial Parliamentary Secretary Information and Culture Punjab Muhammad Nadeem Qureshi on Saturday termed act of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s security guards harassing journalists of Multan including President of Multan Press Club Shakeel Anjum and a female reporter as a deplorable. In a statement issued here, Nadeem Qureshi said it was attack on freedom of press. Preventing […]
LAHORE: PML-N President and Leader of the Opposition Shehbaz Sharif expressed hope on Saturday that government members in Parliament will vote against the PECA ordinance, which has made online ‘defamation’ of authorities a criminal offence with harsh penalties. Congratulating the newly elected officials of the Association of Electronic Media Editors and News Directors (AMEAND), Shehbaz […]
LAHORE: Federal Minister Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said that country’s media regulatory regime was outmoded and unable to regulate the media and digital media forums and there was need to update the existing laws it in line with the changing times. Speaking at a workshop ‘Changing Roles, Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Media […]
From the 1857 Gagging Act and the 1910 Press Act of India, many laws have been made to silence journalists and dissenters. The mindset favoring authoritarian rule has persisted even under nominally democratic governments. Press is invariably the first and foremost target. In this regard, Prime Minister Imran Khan has not distinguished himself from his […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Friday served a notice to Attorney-General of Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan on the petitions filed by journalist organisations against the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the petition against the PECA (Amendment) Act ordinance 2022 during which the court issued the […]
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday appeared before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) here and submitted an application seeking withdrawal of his constitutional immunity, asking the judge to decide the case against him on merit. During the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) months-long sit-in in 2014, police had invoked the Anti-Terrorism Act against PTI chief Imran Khan, […]
KARACHI: Three eyewitnesses on Friday identified a suspect as the one who involved in the murder of journalist Athar Mateen during a mugging attempt in North Nazimabad last month. Associated with Samaa TV as senior producer, Mateen was shot dead by armed robbers on Feb 18. Police booked and arrested Muhammad Ashraf alias Lamboo in […]
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday granted bail to journalist Mohsin Baig in a money laundering and bribery case. The petitioner had submitted in the plea that he was being politically victimised at the behest of the federal communication minister over his reported remarks in media. Baig’s counsel Abdul Lateef Khosa submitted that the […]
KARACHI: The Association of Electronic Media Editors and News Directors (AEMEND), in its annual session, completely rejected the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), declaring it to be against the freedom of expression and basic human rights. AEMEND said it considered that the purpose of this ordinance was to curb the freedom of media and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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