Six months after Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in Kenya, 15 Kenyan, regional, and international organisations express their deep concern over Kenyan authorities’ failure to fully investigate and provide a credible account of the circumstances surrounding his death. We renew our call for investigations into Sharif’s killing to be expedited and urge authorities […]
Pakistan moved up seven places in 2022 according to the annual World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday. According to the index published to coincide with Press Freedom Day by the RSF, a non-profit that defends and promotes freedom of information, Pakistan now ranks 150 out of 180 countries, whereas […]
(AFP) – Press freedom is under attack in every corner of the globe, with journalists continually harassed, jailed and killed, UN officials and media outlets warned Tuesday. Speaking ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutierrez issued a rallying cry for journalists and media worldwide. “All our freedom depends on press […]
BANNU, Pakistan — Journalist Gohar Wazir was shopping for groceries at a market in northwestern Pakistan when five men forced him into a vehicle at gunpoint. The abductors blindfolded Wazir and whisked him away to a hideout some 40 minutes away from the city of Bannu. For the next 30 hours, Wazir was kept […]
The 21st edition of the World Press Freedom Index, compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), sheds light on major and often radical changes linked to political, social and technological upheavals. Source: RSF
QUETTA – Balochistan Chief Minister (CM) Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo on Tuesday said media being the fourth pillar of the state, plays an important role in Pakistan. In his message issued in connection with the World Press Freedom Day, the chief minister said that the media was an educated section of our society that plays […]
KHYBER: Extension of almost all the regular laws to the merged districts after the region’s merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 could not ensure any qualitative change in the nature of reporting in the militancy-affected areas as tribal journalists are still faced with threats and intimidations from both state and non-state actors. While journalists […]
APRIL 23 marked six months since the death of journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya. This week the Pakistan Press Foundation announced the 2023 Press Freedom Award for the journalist posthumously on the eve of World Press Freedom Day. Although Arshad Sharif’s murder is now over six months old, the mystery surrounding his death remains […]
ISLAMABAD: Former president of Pakistan and President Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Asif Ali Zardari said that the PPP will continue to support the freedom of press. In his message on the World Press Freedom Day, Zardari said that Quaid-e-Awam Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a supporter of freedom of expression. He taught the common […]
KARACHI: Minister of State/ Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for Public Communication and Digital Platforms Fahd Haroon had a meeting with Saeed Sarbazi, the President, of Karachi Press Club (KPC). He congratulated the media and journalists community on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, which will be celebrated on May […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the dictatorial thinking always looks for an opportunity to derail the democracy in Pakistan and the same approach is always ready to gag the freedom of the press. “The restrictions on freedom of media weaken democracy and also cause disharmony […]
Journalism is a difficult job in Pakistan. If an institution or political group is unhappy with a journalist, their life becomes difficult. However, journalists continue to work despite the threat of terrorists and mafias. Many of our colleagues have parted ways with us, most of whom did not receive justice. Arshad Sharif, Saleem Shehzad, Mushtaq […]
Tarek Fatah, a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author, died on April 24 this year. He had for years criticized the partition of India, which many people do, but he went many steps further by calling for the annihilation of Pakistan. He was a leftist student leader and a journalist in Karachi in the 1960s and 1970s […]
KHUZDAR: Outside the Khuzdar Press Club stands a column topped with the likeness of a hand cast in iron and holding a pen. The imposing structure seems to celebrate the notion of a free press. The reality could not be more different. In 2014, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranked Khuzdar, the capital of Khuzdar district […]
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