• June 1, 2024
• Governance, Media and Governance, Media Development, Media Ethics

On May 27, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) pledged its support to journalist organizations opposing the recently passed defamation bill by the Punjab Assembly. Representatives from various journalist organizations met with MQM-P chairman Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and other party leaders at the MQM-P’s Bahadurabad office in Karachi. The delegation included leaders from the Council of Pakistan Newspaper […]

• April 27, 2020
• Freedom of Expression, Governance

PTI Senator Shibli Faraz has been appointed the new information minister of the country, federal minister Fawad Chaudhry and state-run Pakistan Television announced on Monday. Meanwhile, retired Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa has been appointed as special assistant to the prime minister (SAPM) for information, a title previously held by Firdous Ashiq Awan.”The prime minister […]

• October 1, 2019
• General News, Governance

KARACHI: Cameron Munter, a former ambassador of the United States to Pakistan, on Monday suggested to Pakistan to go for smart diplomacy and try to reconcile with India although it was very hard to do so in the current scenario. Addressing members of the Karachi Council on Foreign Relations (KCFR) at a local hotel, he […]

• October 1, 2019
• General News, Governance

QUETTA: Provincial Minister for Health and Deputy Parliamentary Leader PTI in Balochistan Assembly Meer Naseebullah Marri has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan with his stimulating speech presented a strong case of Kashmir in the United Nations. He is being praised not just in Pakistan but in India as well, he added.  “Prime Minister Imran Khan […]

• August 8, 2019
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Governance, Media and Governance

KARACHI: The newly-appointed provincial minister for Information & Archives and Labour, Saeed Ghani presided over on Wednesday his first meeting of the Information & Archives Department. Information secretary Imran Atta Soomro briefed Ghani about the functions of the department’s various directorates. Addressing the meeting, the minister said that he wanted to facilitate the print and […]

• July 27, 2019
• Governance, Media and Governance

PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has sent a legal notice to British publication The Mail on Sunday and online news site Mail Online, and its journalist David Rose, about an article published on July 14, it emerged on Friday. According to a press release, dated July 25 and issued by London-based legal firm Carter-Ruck Solicitors, a formal legal complaint […]

• July 19, 2019
• Governance

ISLAMABAD – The case registered by the Federal Investigation Agency over leaked video controversy clearly shows that the agency may investigate PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz and other senior party leaders, who were part of the July 6 press conference, in connection with the scandal. FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing in the FIR has booked six […]

• July 13, 2019
• Governance, Media and Governance

ISLAMABAD: The accountability court judge Arshad Malik has submitted an affidavit to the Islamabad High Court in which he has explained in detail about the whole video controversy. Arshad Malik in his affidavit submitted that during the hearing of reference against Sharif family, the PML-N leaders tried to bribe him and threatened him with dire […]

• July 4, 2019
• Broadcasting, Governance, Television

The state-run TV channel, Pakistan Television Corporation got 2.5% increase in its revenue and secured Rs 300 million profit in the last financial year (2018-19), according the managing director PTV. The Senate Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage met here on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Senator Faisal Javed in which […]

• June 30, 2019
• Governance, New Media, Social Media

SEEN as a tool for repressive governmental sanctions on online free speech by rights activists, the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) 2016 was bulldozed through parliament as it was considered necessary by the government of the time to address the inadequacy of Pakistan’s existing criminal legislation and legal system in dealing with new and emerging […]

• June 28, 2019
• Governance, Media and Governance

Islamabad: The National Assembly on Thursday witnessed uproar when Opposition Leader Shahbaz Sharif called Imran Khan a ‘selected’ prime minister a few minutes after the Leader of the House took his seat. Shahbaz was speaking on the issue of hike in the power tariff when Imran Khan entered the House. The treasury benches’ members rose […]

• June 19, 2019
• Broadcasting, Front Page, Governance, Media and Governance, Media and Society, Media Ethics, Television

Karachi: In response to a “defamatory and malicious story” published by a foreign news outlet against the Pakistani security forces, the government of Pakistan has recently filed a complaint to demand an apology. Published on June 2 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the story titled ‘Uncovering Pakistan’s secret human rights abuses’ alleged the Pakistani […]

• May 21, 2019
• Governance

Islamabad: While terming news item published in ‘The Nes’ and ‘Jang’ on Sunday related to him fake, baseless and concocting, Federal Minister for Water and Resources Faisal Vawda has rejected the report in strongest terms declaring it as one-sided and pack of lies. He said that news published in aforementioned newspapers regarding him is against […]

• April 12, 2019
• General News, Governance

ISLAMABAD: Two Hindu girls from Sindh, who had allegedly been forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslims, did so voluntarily, ruled the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday. The court also declared that the two sisters were adults and could live with their husbands if they wanted to. The decision came during a hearing […]