The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) should be given autonomy without any government control, prominent journalist Nasir Zaidi said on Monday. “In the past governments of PML-N and PTI, several laws were introduced to curtail the freedom of speech,” he told Manizales Jahangir on Spot Light. Zaidi questioned the amendments as the new […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Monday that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would formally launch Journalists Health Insurance Card Scheme on August 7. She stated this after launching the registration process for Journalists Health Insurance Scheme by uploading its form on the website of the Press Information Department and Ministry […]
KARACHI: All the representative bodies of the journalists during a consultative meeting chaired by Karachi Press Club president on Monday rejected the Pemra Amendment Bill, 2023 and demanded complete reconstitution of the Pemra as recommended by the two-member media commission appointed by the Supreme Court, including Justice (r) Nasir Aslam Zahid and former federal information […]
KARACHI: Pakistan has been ranked third in the world over the imposition of internet restrictions in the first half of 2023. According to a report by Surfshark, a virtual private network company headquartered in Lithuania, a half-year analysis of internet shutdown based on the Internet Shutdown Tracker reveals that Pakistan was responsible for three of […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will formally launch a health insurance card scheme for working journalists across the country on August 7, 2023. Speaking at a news conference to launch the registration process of working journalists for the health insurance scheme on Monday, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said that working journalists can […]
SAN FRANCISCO-Twitter launched its new logo on Monday, replacing the blue bird with a white X on a black background as the company moves toward rebranding as X. The social media network’s website showed the company’s new logo, but its URL was still showing as twitter.com and the blue “Tweet” button was visible. Some users […]
KARACHI/ LAHORE: On Friday evening, Punjab cinema owners suddenly started opening shows for Barbie and selling tickets, once again. Some users also shared screenshots of Universal Cinema telling customers that since the objections raised by the Censor Board have been resolved, the film is being played, and the tickets accommodated. In light of the development, […]
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb says all the stakeholders have been consulted on PEMRA Amendment Bill. Participating in a Private Television talk show on Monday night, she said the procedure to pay journalists’ salaries was mentioned in PEMRA Amendment Bill. She said it is mandatory to make payments to the journalists and media […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the death threats and registration of a criminal complaint against Daily Huamawam resident editor Badar Zaman in the Swat district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. On July 1, Zaman published a story about the alleged illegal commission collection by two clerks of the health department. Following this, on July 18, […]
Islamabad: Digital Rights Foundation (DRF), a registered research-based NGO in Pakistan, has released a comprehensive Policy Brief shedding light on the distressing prevalence of cyber harassment endured by journalists and media practitioners during the year 2022. The report, based on data collected by DRF’s Cyber Harassment Helpline, exposes the challenges faced by journalists, with particular […]
PTI chairman on Monday challenged the PEMRA’s move of banning speech coverage on media in the Lahore High Court. PTI chief’s lawyers Sulaiman Akram Raja and Sameer Khosa Advocates applied for LHC. Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) had been made a party in the petition. The position taken stated that the LHC had […]
IN a rapidly evolving media landscape, there is a need to update the relevant laws to ensure press freedom, while filtering out lies and libellous content. This can be done either through dubious laws, such as the PTI government’s Pakistan Media Development Authority bill, or stakeholders can be taken on board to formulate laws that […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Saturday rejected the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Amendment Bill 2023 and vowed to thwart all attempts to arrest and undermine media freedom come what may. The PTI spokesman, strongly reacting to the Pemra Amendment Bill, alleged that the ‘puppet government’ held in abeyance the Constitution for the last 15 […]
ISLAMABAD: Senior Pakistani journalists warned on Saturday media freedom had been under intense pressure for over a year due to increasing political polarization in the country, adding they anticipated these restrictions to persist until the next elections scheduled to be held in October this year. Political uncertainty engulfed Pakistan following the removal of former […]
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