KARACHI: As part of a review of Pakistan’s human rights standing, the Netherlands has recommended that Pakistan remove restrictions on internet access. The recommendation is part of a draft report of the UN Human Rights Council working group on the Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan. In the draft report, released on November 2, the working […]
By: Shakeel Anjum ISLAMABAD: Marvi Sarmad, columnist and human rights campaigner, on Friday night narrowly escaped when some unknown gunmen opened fire at her car on the Murree Road near Shahdara More in front of Malpur when she was making a right turn towards the Bani Gala where she lives. The police registered a case […]
Berlin: The German Foundation Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftungor FES gives its highest human rights award to the tribal union of journalist or TUJ, FATA. This award is recognition of the work done by the journalists in FATA. TUJ has worked for 20 years to consolidate media freedom and freedom of expression in the region. It represents around 250 […]
Commitments must be followed by action said national and international human rights NGOs today in the wake of the second review of Pakistan under the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. NGO representatives said that they feared that an overoptimistic picture of progress since 2008 had been presented by the government delegation, headed by Minister […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Union of Journalists (KuJ) and the Peshawar Press Club have condemned the rude and violent behavior of police after a local journalist was beaten up. Ziaul Haq, ARY TV bureau chief was thrashed by cops Thursday in the presence of Superintendent of Police Khalid Hamdani, reports said. In a hurriedly called meeting at […]
By: Hammad Siddiqui This certainly is the Social Era, where more and more people are getting connected via Facebook, Twitter and other similar platforms. Social media is now also considered an essential tool for journalists. In Pakistan there is a growing number of young journalists, working both in print and electronic media. Some of these […]
By: Malik Asad ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court issued a show-cause notice to the owner of a private television channel on Tuesday for airing a programme containing defamatory and scandalous material against judges of superior judiciary. Hearing a petition filed by Nadeem Ahmed through his counsel Akram Sheikh, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui directed Haji Abdul […]
As the United Nations Human Rights Council prepared for its Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders expressed alarm over growing threats to journalists’ lives and safety in many regions of the country. The free press organization, which has official consultative status with the U.N., had recommended as recently as April a series of […]
By: Hanif Khalid ISLAMABAD: Government has decided to stem the huge losses incurred by illegal international calls coming to Pakistan by making it sure that no call from abroad is made to Pakistan without payment. This was stated by Chairman PTA Farooq Awan while talking to ‘The News’ here on Friday. Previously foreign operators had […]
QUETTA: A Khuzdar journalist’s son who was injured in a shooting incident on Thursday, died in a local hospital on Friday. Two men on a motorbike had opened fire on a car in Khuzdar on Thursday, killing Siraj Ahmed and injuring Manzoor Ahmed, both sons of Nadeem Gurganari, president of the Khuzdar Press Club. On […]
By: Mohammad Zafar QUETTA: Gunmen attacked the two sons of a journalist in the Khuzdar district on Thursday, killing one of them and critically injuring the other, police officials said. ASI Abdul Raheem told The Express Tribune that the two sons of Khuzdar Press Club president Allah Bakhsh, better known as Nadeem Gurgnari, were attacked […]
KARACHI: Scores of journalists on Wednesday mounted a demonstration against the continued killing of their colleagues and the government’s failure to provide protection to them. The demonstration was organised by the Karachi Union of Journalists (Dasturi Group) at the press club in protest against the gunning down of a senior newsman, Khalid Mustafa Mengal, in […]
By: Hasnaat Malik ISLAMABAD: Cases pertaining to the media are on the rise in the superior courts as several have been instituted in this regard since June 2012. Since the start of the lawyers’ movement, relationship between the superior courts and media has been cordial and the chief justice of Pakistan has taken most of […]
By: Anaam Raza & Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: A senior Pakistani journalist has lodged a complaint with the Metropolitan police in London that he was tortured in the presence of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the Information Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), at a controversial awards ceremony here. Mujahid Omar, who has been working in Pakistani community for […]
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