LAHORE: Might is right and the new might in the country is land mafia which is grabbing the land of innocent people at a fast pace right under the nose of government. As nothing has been done to stamp out land mafia, land grabbers are now targeting oversees Pakistanis. Although there are numerous cases in […]
NOWSHERA: Two compact disc (CD) shops were blown up in separate explosions here on Sunday, the police sources said. The sources said the explosive devices planted by unidentified persons at the CD shops in Cantonment Area went off and destroyed the shops selling the music tapes. The police reached the spot and collected pieces of […]
By: A.G Noorani “A RESPONSIBLE press is an undoubtedly desirable goal; but press responsibility is not mandated by the constitution, and like many other virtues, it cannot be legislated,” Chief Justice Warren Burger of the US Supreme Court ruled on behalf of a unanimous court in June 1974. In the nearly four decades that have […]
By: Obaid Abrar Khan ISLAMABAD: Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) has written a letter to the Chief Secretary Balochistan asking him to extend full support to the three-member fact-finding committee to assess the scale of violence against working journalists in the province. PCP Chairman Raja Shafqat Abbasi in his letter wrote that article 19 of […]
By: Amir Mir LAHORE: An Anti-Terrorism Court of Karachi has failed to meet the 45-day deadline fixed by the Sindh High Court to wrap up the proceedings in Wali Khan Babar murder case and take the killers to task. Wali Khan Babar, 29, was gunned down on January 13, 2012, hardly a few hours after […]
ISLAMABAD: A report regarding performance of media and its drawbacks “Asian Media Barometer” was launched by a non government organisation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), on Thursday. The report claimed that some positive changes have occurred because of media activism, during the last three years in Pakistan. There is more awareness amongst citizens against biased, unethical […]
LAHORE: Intelligence agencies have arrested one more accused in ‘Geo News’ reporter Wali Khan Murder case, Geo News reported. The accused identified as Arif Commando was arrested from Township Lahore. Intelligence agencies had arrested accused Wasim from the same area while Arif Commando managed to flee on November 14. Till now, three accused in Wali […]
The International Federation of Journalists stands in solidarity with its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and workers of the English newspaper– the Daily Times who are striking this week in protest of the newspaper’s continued withholding of salary payments. The situation at the Daily Times escalated on December 10 when two employees […]
KARACHI: A police officer who recovered a car reportedly used by one of the accused in the murder trial of Wali Khan Babar testified at the Anti-Terrorism Court-III on Tuesday. The officer narrated how he had received a tip-off about the car and had recovered it, as well as, carried out an initial examination and […]
By: Phyza Jameel The Committee to Protect Journalists in 2012 named 12 countries — including Pakistan, Iraq, Russia, the Philippines, Afghanistan and Mexico — in its annual “impunity index” because they allow deadly violence against the press to go unpunished, calling for a global agenda to shape up around the growing concern of nations around […]
By: Sadaf Baig On November 25, 2012, one of Pakistan’s best known journalists Hamid Mir escaped an assassination attempt when an IED (improvised explosive device) rigged to his car was discovered and defused. The next day, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for planting the explosive and vowed to make another attempt to kill him. In […]
By: Asad Baig Since 2000, over 80 journalists have been killed, hundreds threatened, harassed, intimidated, abducted and attacked. Most of the cases go unregistered, and investigations for those that can even boast the basic FIR, are endlessly and sometimes deliberately delayed and perpetrators roam free. So, what is the reason behind the lack of legal […]
By: Adnan Rehmat If journalists in Pakistan and the media they work for are under attack, as the screaming statistics show, what would constitute a desired response mechanism that can combat this impunity meaningfully and effectively? What can help is a combination of individual responsibility on the part of media practitioners and media houses on […]
By: Adnan Rehmat Most of the journalism we do in this country is statistics-driven. Unfortunately, in our context, the statistics often indicate bad news. On most days, the number of people killed is what determines the headline and its placement. The number of drop-outs and out of school children is the statistic when we […]
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