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Daily Archives: December 19, 2023

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the disruption in access to social media in Pakistan

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the recent disruptions to access to social media platforms in Pakistan.  While it is not possible to ascertain if this was the cause of the disruption, the disruption in services experienced on December 17 occurred at a time when the Pakistan Tehreek i Insaf party was hosting a virtual rally. […]


Internet services, social media apps fully restored in Pakistan after Sunday’s outage

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Millions of Pakistanis faced slow internet services and disruption of social media in Pakistan on late Sunday, during a virtual meeting organised by former ruling PTI. Following the outage, social media platforms including Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook have been restored across Pakistan. As the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has not shared any update about the […]


PTA ‘looking into’ reports of social media outage

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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has said that it is looking into reports that the internet services witnessed disruption in “some parts” of the country. In a statement on Monday, the PTA said the overall situation of internet access across the country was normal. The statement came a day after social media sites faced serious […]


Two more suspects arrested in journalist Jan Mohammad Mahar’s murder case

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SUKKUR: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested two more suspects in the murder case of senior journalist Jan Mohammad Mahar. Mr Mahar was shot dead by unknown assailants who showered his car with a volley of fire when it was passing by the St. Saviour School on Queens Road in Sukkur late in the […]


Call to respect Right to Information Law for transparency in election season

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ISLAMABAD  –  In the election season it is im­perative that the right to in­formation law is respected by all public bodies to promote transparency and accountabil­ity as elements for free and fair elections. This was stated by President Human Rights Cell of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar in a statement yesterday. However, The […]