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Daily Archives: July 9, 2022

United Nation expert warns of dangerous decline in media freedom

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Reporters getting killed while chasing a story. Online attacks against women journalists, including death and rape threats. Targeted electronic surveillance to intimidate and silence investigative journalism. This is the dangerous reality for many journalists around the world as media freedom and safety have diminished in the digital age with a grave impact on human rights, […]


Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) urges government to release senior anchorperson Imran Riaz

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Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) President Kazim Khan has demanded the government to immediately release senior anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan. The CPNE President Kazim Khan condemned the arrest of senior anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan. He said that the detention of the anchorperson was an illegal and unconstitutional step. The council urged the government to […]


Political activists in journalism

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Journalists are expected to present facts and views to people in their newspaper columns or the electronic media. Their opinions and commitment to rule of law, democracy and supremacy of the constitution establish their credibility. In 2010 a three-member group of independent Pakistani journalists, enjoying international credibility were a part of a team that dared […]


President’s concern for media ‘subjective’, says Rabbani

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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senator said all Pakistani citizens are equal before the law and President Dr Arif Alvi has to view them as such and not through politically-tinted glasses. The PPP Senator and former chairman Senate Raza Rabbani, in a statement on Friday, said that the president’s concern for the media is […]


After Chakwal, journalist Imran Riaz Khan now in Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) custody

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LAHORE: A team of the Lahore police arrested anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan from Chakwal and handed him over to the city’s Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) in a case lodged against him at the Civil Lines police station. The case was lodged by a citizen, Muhammad Asif, a resident of Lahore’s Faiz Bagh area, on charges […]