• July 15, 2022
• Information Technology

Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications has approved budget of Rs. 32.13 billion for the Universal Service Fund for the financial year 2022-23 to provide broadband services to unserved and under-served areas. “In 13 years from 2006 to 2019, the number of USF projects was limited to 59, after which directives were issued to speed-up […]

• July 14, 2022
• General News

After a video of journalist Maira Hashmi went viral on social media in which she could be seen slapping a boy during live coverage, netizens wondered what had caused her to react in such an aggressive fashion. Soon afterwards, speculation regarding the incident ran rife across social media platforms, with netizens showing a mixed reaction. […]

• July 13, 2022
• General News

RAWALPINDI: A woman, sister of the journalists, was gunned down, while four other family members injured in a firing at their house at Adiala Road. The incident took place due to personal enmity between the deceased and the alleged murderer. The police have shifted the deceased and the inured to Benazir Bhutto Hospital, while two […]

• July 11, 2022
• Freedom of Expression

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is concerned at the arrest of Dunya News correspondent Pir Muhammad Kakar on July 7 in the Loralai district of the Balochistan province. PPF urges authorities to provide more clarity about the reasons for the journalist’s arrest and ensure that legal due diligence is observed. To arrest a journalist for their […]

• July 11, 2022
• Freedom of Expression

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the attack on Bol News anchorperson Sami Abrahim and calls for an investigation into the incident. According to media reports, Abrahim was attacked by a transgender person outside the Bol News office in Islamabad. As per Dawn, the transgender person had asked him for money and when he gave Rs100, […]

• July 11, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan has strongly condemned the attack on Bol News senior anchorperson Sami Ibrahim. “Strongly condemn the attack on senior journalist Sami Ibrahim today in a similar fashion to the earlier attack on Ayaz Amir,” the prime minister said in a statement of Twitter. “These fascist […]

• July 10, 2022
• General News

Guwahati: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-based global media safety and rights body, has demanded adequate punishment for perpetrators who were involved in the murder of Pakistani journalist Iftikhar Ahmed on Saturday last. Iftikhar (55) becomes the 74th media worker to be killed this year, whereas globally 79 media persons lost their lives to assailants […]

• July 10, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: An anchorperson was manhandled by a group of people including a transgender person right in front of his office near Aabpara on Saturday. According to the police, a transgender person approached Sami Ibrahim when he came out of his office in G-6 and sought alms. In response, he gave Rs100, but the transgender person […]

• July 9, 2022
• General News

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, […]

• July 9, 2022
• General News

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 […]

• July 9, 2022
• General News

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 […]

• July 9, 2022
• General News

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 […]

• July 9, 2022
• General News

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 […]

• July 8, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA) President Shoaib Shaheen on Thursday condemned arrest of journalist Imran Riaz Khan by Punjab police and assault of Ayaz Amir by unknown persons. He termed the arrest of Riaz as violation of constitutional rights and argued that society would have been crime-free if Punjab police and state […]