• January 6, 2020
• Social Media

National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) Director General (DG) Mir Ajam Khan Durrani has taken notice of a video, which showed a citizen complaining of his grievance outside a Nadra office, that went viral on social media. Talking to The News, the Nadra DG said an applicant had visited the Madra Mega Centre in Defence at […]

• January 4, 2020
• Freedom of Expression, Social Media

ISLAMABAD: Special As­­­­­sistant to the Prime Min­ister on Information and Broad­casting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday said that social media was taking over electronic media and government officers needed to adapt to the changing scenario. Addressing information officers at a function held at the Information Services Academy (ISA), the special assistant said that electronic […]

• January 1, 2020
• Social Media

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday with a smile parried a question posed by a senior reporter about video clips of TikTok famed star Hareem Shah. She said that the society is facing many challenges like crumbling of the social fabric. She said that technology brings many […]

• January 1, 2020
• Social Media

LAHORE: Punjab Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution against blasphemous content on social media with recommendation to follow Saudi Arabian model to prevent spread of sacrilegious content. Punjab Minister for Mines and Minerals and PML-Q MPA Ammar Yasir had submitted the resolution in this regard during Tuesday’s session chaired by Panel of Chairmen Mian Shafi. […]

• December 31, 2019
• Freedom of Expression, Social Media

ISLAMABAD.: A popular social networking site has blocked live news streaming by Pakistan’s national broadcaster over posts about Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) which has been under siege since August 5, 2019 after the Narendra Modi government unconstitutionally stripped the disputed region of its special status. Radio Pakistan accused Facebook of blocking live news bulletins by the […]

• December 31, 2019
• Social Media

ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Interior chairman Senator Rehman Malik has taken serious notice of blasphemous material being circulated on social media and asked the Federal Investi­gation Agency (FIA) and Pakistan Telecommuni­cation Authority (PTA) to take stern action against those generating and spreading blasphemous material on social media. He directed the FIA and PTA to […]

• December 30, 2019
• Social Media

SIALKOT: A 16-year-old boy was killed on Sunday after gunshots were fired while he was recording a TikTok video with his friends in Sialkot’s Kharota Syedan. His friends have told the police that the teen shot himself accidentally while they were shooting a video. His parents, however, have said that one of the teen’s friends […]

• December 29, 2019
• Arts and Culture, Social Media

KARACHI: Google honoured acclaimed singer Iqbal Bano with her very own Google Doodle on what would have been her 81st birthday. The illustration, designed by Karachi-based guest artist Samya Arif, celebrates the singer famous for her rendition of ghazal, nazm and various classical forms, as well as music for film and patriotic songs. She passed […]

• December 28, 2019
• Freedom of Expression, Social Media

ISLAMABAD:The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday disposed of a petition challenging the interior ministry’s ban on its officials as well as employees of its subordinate departments from speaking to the media without permission and sharing documents or any other information on social networking websites. The plea against the restrictions was filed by a citizen, […]

• December 26, 2019
• Access to Information, advertising, Broadcasting, Environmental Journalism, Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Media and Society, Media Development, Opportunities, PPF Activities, Radio, Scholarships and Fellowships, Social Media, Television, Training and Capacity Building

Call for Applications   Last date for receiving applications:   Sunday January 5, 2020   Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) invites applications for the 7th batch of PPF Investigative Reporting Fellowships.   The fellowships facilitate Pakistani journalists to produce investigative report that meet the professional, ethical and legal standards. PPF will provide support to journalists, to professionally […]

• December 25, 2019
• Information Technology, Social Media

ISLAMABAD:The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has said the investigation into transactional electronic cybercrime requires records from International organisations which many times do not share details of its users. “Servers of companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Microsoft, and WhatsApp are outside Pakistan and the FIA probe comes to a dead end due to lack of […]

• December 25, 2019
• Freedom of Expression, Social Media

ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court against an interior ministry notification banning social media accounts belonging to senior capital administration officials. The petition was filed by a citizen, Mohammad Awais, on Tuesday. It asked for the notification, which was sent to the heads of the ministry’s 22 subordinate organisations across […]

• December 21, 2019
• Social Media

KARACHI: In light of fresh claims of Pakistani officials being targeted with a hacking software involving an Israeli spyware company, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has sought details of the compromised users from the social media company. In a report published on Thursday, The Guardian claimed that the mobile phones of at least two dozen Pakistani government officials […]

• December 17, 2019
• Social Media

Tania Aidrus, former Google executive who is now the incharge of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s new venture Digital Pakistan Initiative, vowed on Monday to play her role in resolving the financial issues faced by ever-increasing freelancers in the country due to the absence of PayPal, an American company operating a worldwide online payment system. She […]