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Daily Archives: July 21, 2022

Journalist verbally assaulted by police during by-election coverage

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While covering by-elections in the Punjab province, a reporter for ARY News was verbally assaulted by Lahore’s capital city police officer. Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the incident. Journalists should be allowed to work without such challenges and their role in ensuring free and fair elections through accurate reporting must not be threatened. On July […]


Pakistani filmmaker wins prize

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LAHORE:Pakistan’s filmmaker won prestigious Stefanus Prize for interfaith harmony.Wagma Feroz, filmmaker, rights activist and journalist awarded Stefanus Prize for interfaith harmony in a selected gathering in Oslo, Norway on June 24. Wagma’s short film “She Makes Everything beautiful”, was the Grand Prize Winner in a competition under the Empower Women Media for 2021. It’s the […]


Four female journalists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) win international awards in film making

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PESHAWAR: Four female journalists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have brought laurels to the country by winning international awards in Film Making on women empowerment and religious freedom. The four journalists of KP surprised all by bagging top positions in the international awards sponsored by Empower Media Women. The winning journalists are Zeenat Bibi who clinched the […]


Degrees of 85 Pakistan Television (PTV) employees found fake

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ISLAMABAD—As many as 85 state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) employees are employed based on fake educational degrees. Secretary Ministry of Information Shahira Shah, while briefing the Public Accounts Committee, stated that investigating the degrees of PTV employees is going on. So far, the degrees of 85 employees have been found fake. The secretary said the salaries […]


TikTok removes 12.5m videos from Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD—The world’s leading short-form video platform TikTok has released its global Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, highlighting that it removed 12.5 million videos from Pakistan. It said that Pakistan ranks second in the world for the most videos taken down from the TikTok platform over violation of community guidelines during the first quarter of 2022. The […]


Murderer of journalist Anwar Khetran convicted to life imprisonment

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A court in Balochistan’s Barkhan district convicted the murderer of journalist Anwar Jan Khetran to life imprisonment on Wednesday morning. The Additional Session Judge, Tasawur Naveed announced the judgment. The court also fined the accused Rs. 2 lakh. Senior journalist Anwar Jan Khetran was killed in a firing incident on July 23rd, 2020 in the […]


Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Forms Media Safety and Security Committee

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KARACHI (PR) – President of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Kazim Khan has announced establishment of CPNE Media Safety and Security Committee.  In a statement issued by CPNE Secretary General Aamir Mehmood, it is maintained that Media Safety and Security Committee’s objectives would be assessment of security risks to journalists, editors and employees of […]


Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) receives records of Imran Khan’s anti-CEC remarks from PEMRA

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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday received the record of PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s speeches and allegations against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Geo News reported. To keep mounting pressure on ECP for the delay in the reserved verdict of the foreign […]


Journalists Who Were Harassed, Manhandled and Forced out of Work during Imran Khan’s Rule

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Imran Khan claimed that he never issued orders against any journalists and only found out about a journalist’s disappearance or treatment in Cabinet meetings. On July 16th  2022 at a seminar on media freedom in Islamabad, former PM and PTI Chairman Imran Khan claimed that he never issued orders against any journalists and only found […]