• August 8, 2023
• Broadcasting

Journalists staged a walkout from the National Assembly’s press gallery on Tuesday, a day after the federal government announced it was withdrawing a controversial media bill. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb announced on Monday that the government would withdraw the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority amendment bill. Aurangzeb said that the bill was withdrawn after strong […]

• August 8, 2023
• advertising

ISLAMABAD – The outgoing government of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has announced a 35pc increase in government advertisement rates for newspapers, and periodicals, in a fresh breath of air for print media, which is facing hard times. All Pakistan Newspapers Society APNS, the leading organization of major Pakistani newspapers, expressed gratitude to Prime Minister […]

• August 8, 2023
• General News, Social Media

Cyber communication has directly or indirectly affected almost all strata of society and all facets of our lives. Now that it is an integral part of our day-to-day socio-economic lives as a necessity, it poses grave challenges to child protection in addition to numerous threats to individual and state security that countries and their elected […]

• August 8, 2023
• General News

SUKKUR: A journalist, Ghulam Asghar Khand, who was associated with a Sindhi Daily, Sobh, in Ahmedpur town of Khairpur, was attacked and killed by ‘unknown’ killers on Monday. Ghulam Asghar was 42. According to the reports, Ghulam Asghar was attacked and killed by some ‘unknown’ armed men riding on motorcycles when he was sitting at […]

• August 8, 2023
• Broadcasting, Front Page

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) welcomes the decision of the government to withdraw the  Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2023, days after it was passed by the National Assembly.  Amongst the proposed changes in the amendment bill was the inclusion of a definition for disinformation and misinformation and the compulsion on broadcasters not to […]