LAHORE:Asking a vexing question regarding “diminishing space for freedom of speech” and curbs on media in Pakistan to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif, apparently cost the questioner, who happens to be President Press Club Lahore his ‘contract’ with state-run PTV. According to President Lahore Press Club Azam Chaudhry, immediately after the PM’s press conference […]
KARACHI: Senior reporter at Daily Jang, Syed Muhammad Askari returned home in the wee hours of Monday, a day after going missing on Saturday night, Geo News reported. Askari had disappeared after being allegedly picked up by the police and personnel dressed in plain clothes. The incident was reported at the Baloch Colony Police Station […]
Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Tuesday that journalist Azam Chaudhry — who is reported to have claimed he was “taken off the air” from the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) for asking a question related to press freedom from the prime minister — was never an employee of the state-run broadcaster. “He is and has […]
PESHAWAR – A reporter named Jan Alam Khan (name changed for security reasons) recently filed a story in a local Urdu newspaper in Peshawar regarding the interim cabinet in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government after the devolution of the Assembly by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government. During the selection process for the interim cabinet, various names surfaced […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) welcomes the safe return of Daily Jang senior reporter Syed Muhammad Askari, a day after he was “picked up” in Karachi. PPF expresses alarm over the continued unexplained abductions of journalists in Pakistan. PPF also urges the relevant authorities to ensure that Askari’s electronic devices are returned as under the Sindh-level […]
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