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Press enjoys total freedom in Pakistan

KARACHI – Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan has said that there was total freedom of press in Pakistan. Talking to the visiting Chinese Vice-Minister of Information, Wang Gounge, who met the governor with a six-member delegation on November 22, night. The Advisor to Chief Minister on Information, Salahuddin Hyder, Secretary Information Mehtab Akbar Rashdi, […]


Press freedom

Letter to the editor… Recently, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed stated that the government believed in “100 per cent” freedom of the press and the media. If his claim is accurate, how does he justify the existence of his ministry? Or, is the minister and his entire staff getting paid for doing nothing? Siddique Malik […]


Consensus at SAFMA moot

LAHORE – Freedom of expression is definitely one of the victims of 9/11 and journalists can only defend press freedom by holding to fundamental principles of their craft, one of them being the recognition to work together. This was a consensus among speakers at the second session of the South Asian Free Media Association’s (SAFMA) […]


20 held Kashmir journalists to visit Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – A group of nearly 20 journalists from occupied Kashmir will visit Azad Kashmir for nearly a week from Nov 23 as part of Pakistan government’s policy to promote contacts, Indian daily Greater Kashmir reported. The Kashmiri journalists will form part of an Indian delegation that has been invited by South Asia Free Media […]


Press enjoys real freedom, says Musharraf

ISLAMABAD – President Pervez Musharraf said on November 11, that the press was enjoying real freedom and there was no pressure whatsoever from the government on the press. “Real freedom has been granted to the press in Pakistan. There is no pressure on it from the government,” he told the additional secretary in charge of […]


Journalists protest press club seizure

ISLAMABAD – The journalists on November 2, staged a walkout from the press gallery during the Senate session to protest the closure of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club (RIPC) by the district administration and registration of an FIR against a number of journalists. The journalists alleged that the Punjab government had become a party to the […]


Journalists protest sealing of Press Club

ISLAMABAD – The journalist crops on November 2, boycotted the Senate proceedings to protest the police’s sealing of the Rawalpindi Press Club under instructions from top Punjab government functionaries. The journalists also condemned the registration of a first information report (FIR) against some of their colleagues. The FIR was lodge on behalf of former press […]


3rd Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) announces its third annual worldwide index of press freedom. Such freedom is threatened most in East Asia (with North Korea at the bottom of the entire list at 167th place, followed by Burma 165th, China 162nd, Vietnam 161st and Laos 153rd) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia 159th, Iran […]


CPNE to release press freedom report in Jan

KARACHI – The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors has decided to issue an annual report on the state of press freedom in the country. The first report will be released in January 2005. The decision was taken at a meeting of the CPNE’s standing committee in Karachi on October 21, where it was also agreed […]


‘Press not as free as claimed by govt’

LAHORE – The government should lift curbs on mediamen’s visit to Wana and Waziristan so that the people could know what was actually happening there. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan director I. A. Rehman said at a seminar in Lahore on October 5, that the press did not enjoy as much freedom as claimed by […]


Pakistani reporters allowed to visit Kashmir

SRINAGAR – A group of Pakistani journalists will visit the Indian controlled portion of Kashmir for the first time since the dispute over it erupted in 1948, a newspaper chief said in September 27. The contingent of 18 journalists will spend five days in Kashmir starting on October 3, said Kashmir Times Group chairman Ved […]


Categories for 16th APNS Journalist Awards

KARACHI – Secretary General All Pakistan Newspapers Society Muhammad Aslam Kazi had announced the categories constituting the 16th APNS Journalist Awards. In a press release of the APNS issued on September 25, Aslam Kazi advised the journalists, photographers and cartoonists of member publications to submit their entries in any one of the categories. The editors […]


Free flow of information emphasized

KARACHI – The governor of State Bank of Pakistan, Dr. Ishrat Hussain, has expressed hope that publication of South Asian Journal will disseminate new ideas on the issues that confront the South Asian countries and bring people of the region closer. He was speaking at the formal launching ceremony of South Asian Journal, a publication […]


Media urged to highlight environmental issues

KARACHI – Media and journalists should collectively highlight the environmental issues according to the facts in order to educate the masses. This was stated by the Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Information and Archives, Salahuddin Haider, while delivering a lecture at a workshop on ‘Environmental Journalism’ organised by National Forum for Environment and Health […]