• December 31, 2022
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

In a country where the press routinely remains under threat and faces attacks from many fronts, the media in Pakistan operated on slippery grounds in 2022 with a flurry of cases against journalists, television channel closures, charged political rhetoric enabling attacks against the media, overreach by media regulatory bodies and the killing of two journalists, […]

• December 31, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The National Press Club (NPC) management has restricted the entry of PTI leader Qasim Suri in the club, due to his statement against senior journalist Saleem Safi. The NPC management termed the statement by Mr Suri as “an attack on press freedom”. According to the statement issued by NPC President Anwar Raza, Secretary General […]

• December 31, 2022
• General News

The joint panel of Democratic and Aqeel Ibrahim groups won the annual elections of Hyderabad Press Club, bagging all the seats. The candidates of Sahafi Dost and Workers Dost groups lost the election on all the seats, according to the results announced here Friday night. Lala Rehman Samo has been elected as President with 88 […]

• December 31, 2022
• General News

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been asked to intervene in the effort to locate Pakistani national Syed Fawad Ali, who is said to have gone missing since Aug 23. Syed Fawad worked as a journalist known for exposing corrupt practices in Pakistan. He fled to Malaysia in 2009 seeking refuge and […]

• December 31, 2022
• Freedom of Expression

Pakistan is the fifth most dangerous country for journalists as nearly 1,700 newsmen have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders. The two decades between 2003 and 2022 were “especially deadly decades for those in the service […]

• December 31, 2022
• General News

President Lahore Press Club Azam Chaudhry and Secretary General PFUJ Rana Muhammad Azeem on Friday called on Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi at his office. Principal Secretary to CM Muhammad Khan Bhatti, Secretary Information Asif Bilal Lodhi, Press Secretary to CM Iqbal Chaudhry and DGPR Punjab Rao Parvez Akhtar were also present. The CM […]

• December 31, 2022
• Right to Information

The right to information is a fundamental right of every citizen and nobody should deny access to public information. However, government departments often create hurdles in providing information to the citizen. This was said at a conference organised by the Centre for Peace and Development Initiative (CPDI) in collaboration with the Sindh Information Commission (SIC) […]

• December 30, 2022
• Social Media

PESHAWAR: A two-day training workshop on digital media reporting and verification for journalists concluded here on Thursday. The Press Information Department (PID), Peshawar, and Pakistan Information Centre organised the workshop for enhancing the professional skills of journalists in the field of digital media reporting and verification. Speaking at the inaugural session, PID deputy director Romana […]

• December 29, 2022
• General News

SWAT: A senior journalist Sherin Zada was elected president of the Swat Press Club (SPC) while Hazrat Ali Bacha was chosen president of the Swat Union of Journalists for the year 2023. Asmat Ali Akhun was elected vice-president of the Swat Press Club, Niaz Ahmad Khan general secretary, Ubaid Fazal deputy general secretary, Shaukat Ali […]

• December 29, 2022
• Right to Information

KARACHI: Speakers at a journalist training session on Wednesday called for the implementation of Right to Information Act’s (RTI) section-VI which is about the ‘declaration of public record’ on websites of government bodies, so that authorized access to such computerized records is facilitated. The two-day training workshop on ‘Business & Economics Reporting’ was held at […]

• December 29, 2022
• Freedom of Expression

TAXILA: A chief editor of a local newspaper, his gunman and driver were shot dead near Marri village in the limits of Attock police station on Wednesday, police said. According to family sources, chief editor of a local newspaper Arshad Jaffari was going to his office along with his driver, Akhter Nawaz, and gunman, Nazam […]

• December 29, 2022
• Social Media

PESHAWAR: The Federal Investigation Agency’s cybercrime wing has arrested a man for allegedly sharing obscene pictures of a woman on social media and blackmailing her. FIA officials said a woman had filed a complaint with FIA’s cybercrime wing, stating that Farzan Ali allegedly shared her obscene pictures on WhatsApp to blackmail her. “On Wednesday, the […]

• December 29, 2022
• Print Media

KARACHI: In a joint statement issued by the All-Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) and Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), the media organisations have urged Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi to implement the media payment formula of advertising dues as implemented by the federal government as well as provincial governments. Under […]

• December 28, 2022
• Freedom of Expression

LONDON: Geo TV and The News International’s London reporter Murtaza Ali Shah and his journalist brother have won a major defamation case at the UK High Court over false and malicious allegations made about them on social media sites, including WhatsApp. In one of the first few cases in Britain relating to defamation and slander […]