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یوم آزادی صحافت اور بے سہارا صحافی

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صحافت کی آزادی اور عوام تک بروقت درست معلومات کی فراہمی کے لیے قربانیاں دینے والے سیکڑوں صحافیوں، فوٹوگرافرز، کیمرامین اور بلاگرز میں سے ہادی بخش سانگی بھی ایک ہیں، جنہیں پاکستان کے دوسرے بڑے صوبہ سندھ کے شمالی ضلع لاڑکانہ میں 2001 میں پولیس کی جانب سے تشدد کا نشانہ بنایا گیا۔ ہادی بخش […]


صحافي عورتن کي ڪم جي دوران حراسان ڪيو ويندو آهي

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3- مئي تي پاڪستان سميت سڄي دنيا ۾ صحافت جي آزاديءَ جي عالمي ڏوهاري کي “ورلڊ پريس فرينڊ ڊي” جي طور ملهايو ويندو آهي، جنهن جو مقصد پنهنجن فرضن جي ادائگيءَ دوران پرنٽ ۽ اليڪٽرونڪ ميڊيا کي پيش ايندڙ مشڪلتن، خطرن ايتري قدر جو سند زندگيءَ کي درپيش خطرن متعلق دنيا کي آگاهي ڏيڻ، صحافت […]


سوشل میڈیا کی وجہ سے صحافیوں کو درپیش خطرات

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دنیا بھر میں کل آزادی صحافت کا عالمی دن منایا جائے گا، اس میں کوئی شک نہیں کسی بھی ملک کی ترقی میں صحافت کا کردار انتہائی اہم ہوتا ہے یہی وجہ ہے کہ صحافت کو ریاست کا چوتھا ستون قرار دیا گیا ہے لیکن افسوس پاکستان سمیت دنیا بھر کے صحافیوں کے تحفظ کے […]


Media under fire

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As the UN’s World Press Freedom Day is marked today, the state of the media around the world remains under threat. Since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, around 1340 journalists have been killed. In Pakistan the security situation for media professionals has remained perilous with at least 72 killed from 2002 to […]


Why Pakistan and India coming down on World Press Freedom Index?

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No one can kill a story by killing a journalist. Many slain journalists often became story of courage and bravery after their murder .Guillermo Cano is one of them. He was a Columbian Journalist who tried to expose the influence of drug mafia on the politics of his country. He was silenced by bullets in […]


Diminishing freedom

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TODAY is World Press Freedom Day, and in a global environment where authoritarian regimes are in the ascendant, even in ostensibly democratic countries, it is all the more important to celebrate the role of the journalist in holding power to account. Fittingly enough, this year’s theme is ‘Media for democracy: journalism and elections in times […]


Families of fallen journalists await justice

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MURTAZA Khan was flipping through TV channels when he saw the tickers: ‘unidentified men open fire at car’, ‘suspects open fire on private news channel vehicle’ and finally, ‘man killed’. It took him a few seconds to realise that he was watching a live update of his brother Wali’s death. From what Murtaza recalls of […]


Press freedom under serious threat from govts worldwide: IPI

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KARACHI: Governments are increasingly clamping down on press freedom as new laws are being enacted to curtail media independence around the world, while 55 journalists were killed since May last year, according to the International Press Institute (IPI). In a press statement issued on Wednesday, Barbara Trionfi, executive director of the Vienna-based IPI — a […]


Murder of Journalists: Blood money lets culprits go scot-free

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Blood money is considered a stumbling block in the way of bringing to justice the culprits of slain journalists in Sindh southern province of Pakistan. The murder of Amir Bux Brohi and Shahid Hussain Soomro were wound up after out of court settlements were agreed upon blood money between the families of deceased journalists and […]


World Press Freedom Day and Pakistan

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Three days ahead of the World Press Freedom Day, 2109, a reporter has been as killed in Dera Ismail Khan’s Parowa area. Malik Amanullah Khan, who had been the chairman of the Parowa Press Club, was a target in a drive-by shooting near Landa Sharif Adda on Multan-Dera Road. He died at the scene of […]


Journalist Shahzeb Jillani’s pre-arrest bail confirmed by district court

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A district court in Karachi on Tuesday confirmed the interim pre-arrest bail of journalist Shahzeb Jillani in a case pertaining to alleged cyber terrorism, hate speech and defamatory remarks about state institutions. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had booked Jillani in a case registered under Sections 500 (defamation), 109 (abetment) and 34 (common intention) of […]


Journalist killed in DI Khan

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unidentified assailants shot dead a local reporter in what appears to be an incident of targeted killing in Parowa area of the district on Tuesday. Police identified the victim as Malik Amanullah Khan, a local reporter and chairman of Parowa Press Club. Mr Khan was on his motorcycle at around 9am when […]


KUJ slams PTI workers over manhandling of female journalists

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Karachi: The Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) has strongly condemned the mistreatment and harassment of the female journalists during the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s 23rd Foundation Day rally on Sunday. In a joint statement, the president KUJ Hassan Abbas, general secretary Aajiz Jamali and members of executive council said some miscreants tried to snatch the cameras and […]


Pakistani journalist attacked by police officers

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Shaukat Korai, court reporter of News One TV channel   was assaulted in the premises of Sindh High Court (SHC) by Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officers in Karachi on April 27. Korai  told Pakistan Press Foundation that he was present in the court for his routine coverage, when CTD officers brought few suspects to Anti-Terrorism Court’s administrative […]