Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has taken notice of an attack on the residence of a senior journalist, Baqir Sajjad, who claimed that his house in Islamabad was attacked by unidentified people and they also took away cash and jewelry. In a tweet, the Minister said that she has spoken to IG Police […]
Slain journalist Arshad Sharif’s mother has requested the Supreme Court to direct the special Joint Investigation Team (JIT) — probing her son’s killing in October last year — to include PTI Chairman Imran Khan and four other people in the investigation, it emerged on Thursday. In an application, his mother named a total of five […]
New York, June 8, 2023–Pakistan authorities must cease harassing journalists Ahmad Noorani and Shahid Aslam and allow them to work without interference, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. In late May, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) issued an investigative report, which CPJ reviewed, accusing the journalists of involvement in illegally accessing the tax records […]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has fixed the hearing on journalist Arshad Sharif murder case on June 13. A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial will conduct the hearing on the case. Journalist Arshad Sharif was killed on October 23, 2022, in Kajiado, a remote area of Kenya, when he […]
It only takes a stray bullet or a group of unknown men to make a story out of those who report the news themselves. Zubair Anjum, an executive producer at a leading news channel, joined the seemingly neverending queue of journalists who have found themselves in the eye of the heated storm. While this time, […]
Hate speech has now become an integral part of social media and all voices raised against it are usually ignored. Now the Islamabad police have decided to launch a ‘crackdown’ on social media accounts guilty of spreading religious, linguistic and sectarian hate and propaganda through its Violent Extremism Prevention Unit (VEPU). So far, the authorities […]
KARACHI: President Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani and Secretary General, Sarmad Ali of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have nominated Shahab Zuberi to head the Awards Committee of the APNS as Chairman. APNS Awards Committee included Shahab Zuberi, Daily Business Recorder, as Chairman, Adnan Faisal, Monthly Brands, as Vice Chairman, whereas the following are nominated as members: […]
Journalists Rights Association of Pakistan (JRAP) and Multan Union of Journalists (MUJ) on Wednesday condemned the issuance of life threats to Chief Editor Daily Baithak Multan Abdul Sattar Baloch and urged the police to take strict action against the In a statement JRAP spokesman Faisal Karim stated that the government was claiming that press and […]
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