• January 12, 2013
• Freedom of Expression

By: Saleem Shahid QUETTA: Hundreds of people belonging to the Hazara Shia community staged a sit-in on Alamdar Road on Friday and refused to bury the dead till the army takes control of Quetta. The death toll from Thursday’s three blasts rose to 104 after nine more people died of their. The Human Rights Commission […]

• January 11, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

Three media professionals were killed and three others injured in bomb blast in Quetta, the capital of the restive Balochistan province of Pakistan. The journalists were reporting on an explosion that had occurred about a few minutes earlier, when the second bomb exploded, killing and injuring many, including the journalists. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant group has […]

• January 11, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Social Media

By: Aroosa Shaukat LAHORE: With the YouTube ban in place for almost four months now, Pakistan’s academia questions the efficacy of the step, which has not only hidden the blasphemous content on the world’s largest video sharing website, but also veiled all the other and possibly useful content available. The ban was imposed on September […]

• January 11, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

By: Saleem Shahid QUETTA: As many as 81 people were killed and 121 injured in suicide and car bomb blasts in Quetta’s Alamdar Road area on Thursday night. Earlier in the afternoon, 12 people lost their lives when a bomb went off near a vehicle of the Frontier Corps at Bacha Khan Chowk. A cameraman […]

• January 10, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has given a call of a sit-in outside the Parliament House in Islamabad on January 28, 2013 against the government’s failure to arrest the killers of journalists, delaying tactics to set up the 8th Wage Board and non-payment of salaries to media persons by various media organizations. This decision […]

• January 9, 2013
• Freedom of Expression

Gujranwala: Journalists in satrah organized a rally on Tuesday to protest against the young doctors’ maltreatment of journalists last week. The journalists gathered in front of the Press Club and rallied till Kashmir Chowk. It was led by Rana saleem Karamat, Mubashar Khan and Amanullah Ansari. Condemning the incident, they said journalists could not be […]

• January 9, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Social Media

By: Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said on Tuesday the government would reopen YouTube after completion of work on a filtration mechanism. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority directed internet service providers and mobile phone firms to unblock YouTube on Dec 29 but within an hour the prime minister re-imposed the ban because the […]

• January 7, 2013
• Freedom of Expression

By: Yasser Latif Hamdani No state, modern or ancient, secular or religious, has successfully managed to exercise thought control on its citizens The big news this week in the business world is the decision by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Google antitrust investigations. Holding that Google was not harming consumers in anyway, […]

• January 7, 2013
• Freedom of Expression

The South Asia Media Monitor Report, 2012 makes sad reading. In the course of the last year, 25 media personnel were killed in the eight countries of the South Asian region, with Pakistan once again leading with 13 journalists losing their lives – slightly more than one a month, to say nothing of the hundreds […]

• January 7, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement Co-ordination Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar has said that the MQM would continue to raise its voice for the rights of the journalists’ community as they also belonged to the poor and middle class segments of the society. He expressed these views at a reception given in honour of office-bearers […]

• January 6, 2013
• Freedom of Expression

By: Zofashan Basit It is time the ban on YouTube was lifted. Why should our nation be denied access to YouTube, a source of information and knowledge to many and also a symbol of free thought and speech, just because of the wrong actions of a few? We need to speak up for our right […]

• January 5, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Information Technology, Social Media

By: Farooq Baloch KARACHI: In all likelihood, YouTube will remain inaccessible in Pakistan for the foreseeable future. Islamabad’s negotiations with Google – the internet giant that owns YouTube – may prove fruitless unless Pakistan ensures legal support to the regulation of digital content, The Express Tribune has learned. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been […]

• January 4, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

GENEVA: Last year was one of the deadliest on record for journalists, with 141 killed in 29 different countries and Syria the most dangerous place on earth for reporters, a media watchdog said Thursday. The Swiss-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), which fights for the protection of journalists, said the figure was up by 31 per […]

• January 4, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Television

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting Thursday recommended the government to ban airing all foreign contents in any language during the prime time and take strict action against the violators. The committee meeting, held with Beelum Hasnain in the chair, was attended by its members, Secretary Information Rasheed Ahmed, Pemra Chairman […]