• November 30, 2012
• Freedom of Expression, Print Media

KARACHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) on Thursday unanimously elected the following office-bearers for year 2012-13: Jamil Athar Qazi (President); Shaheen Qureshi (Senior Vice-President); Aamer Mahmood (Secretary General); Ghulam Ali Chandio (Joint Secretary) and Mushtaq Ahmed Qureshi (Finance Secretary); Rehmat Ali Razi (Vice-President-Punjab); Dr. Waqar Yousaf Azeemi (Vice-President-Sindh); Ijaz-ul-Haq (Vice-President-Islamabad); Tahir Farooq (Vice-President, […]

• November 30, 2012
• Freedom of Expression, Media and Governance

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that the majority party would form the government after next elections in the country, adding that the political parties should accept results with open heart in order to ensure smooth democratic transition. Talking to a private TV channel, the minister said the president […]

• November 29, 2012
• Freedom of Expression

KARACHI: The policeman, who was the first one to collect evidence from the murder site of Geo TV reporter Wali Babar, has been included in the high-profile trial. The court hearing the murder case accepted the police’s plea to include a key witness – an investigating officer who initially handled the case – in the […]

• November 29, 2012
• Freedom of Expression

IF certain sections of the media were still attempting to justify the TTP’s agenda or divert attention from it, the attempt on television anchor Hamid Mir’s life should leave no journalist or media outlet with any excuse to continue serving as apologists for the Pakistani Taliban. The TTP’s claim that it was behind the attack […]

• November 29, 2012
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

LAHORE: Voicing its concern at and condemnation of the attempt to assassinate senior journalist Hamid Mir, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for effective measures to guarantee journalists’ fullest possible security. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the commission said: “The bid to target senior journalist Hamid Mir raises quite a […]

• November 29, 2012
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Print Media

KARACHI: The editors and senior journalists from different national newspapers, representatives of civil society organisations and the journalists working in conflict areas speaking at a roundtable discussion on ‘Print Media Coverage on Conflicts’ here Wednesday called for balanced reporting for minimising the threat to the life of journalists working in conflict zones. The participants of […]

• November 28, 2012
• Freedom of Expression, Media and Governance, New Media

By: Umer Nangiana ISLAMABAD: YouTube users in Pakistan will probably have to wait much longer than they anticipated before they can call up the popular video-sharing website again. The problem stems from the fact that Pakistan and the United States lack a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which is what the company usually uses to […]

• November 28, 2012
• Freedom of Expression

Well known journalist, TV talk show host, and executive editor of Geo TV, Hamid Mir narrowly escaped death when an explosive device attached under his car, was defused by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) in Islamabad on Monday. The canvas bag, holding what police describe as an expertly made and fitted bomb – containing half-a-kilogramme […]

• November 28, 2012
• Freedom of Expression

By: Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: When I heard the news of an assassination attempt on Hamid Mir, tears started rolling down on my cheeks. I struggled hard to fight them back. In fact, I got to hear this while I was abroad. There were journalists from different countries accompanying me. I didn’t want to let them […]

• November 28, 2012
• Freedom of Expression, Training and Capacity Building

ISLAMABAD: Around 250 journalists work in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) and 12 have been killed in the area, after 9/11. This was stated by participants at a public discussion on “Reporting in Fata under FCR” organised by a non government international organisation (NGO) Friedric-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). The event was a tribute to journalists working […]

• November 28, 2012
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for planting a bomb under the car of Hamid Mir, a television anchor, and warned him of a second assassination bid. Mr Mir was criticised by the Taliban last month in the wake of the shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousufzai. “Life and death is in the hands […]

• November 27, 2012
• Freedom of Expression

by Shoaib-ur-Rehman Siddiqui KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), chief Altaf Hussain has expressed his deep concerns on the recovery of explosive material from beneath the car of senior journalist and anchor person of a private television challen Hamid Mir. In a statement issued by the MQM here on Monday, he said that the wicked act […]

• November 27, 2012
• Freedom of Expression

Shakeel Anjum ISLAMABAD: Geo’s Executive Editor and anchorperson of popular Geo TV talk-show ‘Capital Talk,’ Hamid Mir, narrowly escaped a terrorist attempt on Monday when a bomb was detected attached beneath his car, which fortunately did not explode. “The explosive device was live and sophisticated carrying half-a-kilogram of explosive powder, enough to blow up a […]

• November 27, 2012
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

Hamid Mir, senior journalist and the anchorperson of Pakistan’s largest television channel Geo TV’s popular talk-show ‘Capital Talk,’ escaped a bomb attack on November 26, 2012 in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad. An improvised explosive devise containing have a kilogram of explosives was attached under Mir’s car as he was coming back from the market […]