• November 12, 2022
• General News

Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has decided to become a party in the senior journalist Arshad Sharif’s assassination case and formed a committee, private news channel reported on Friday. After the leaking of graphic photos of Arshad Sharif’s body and post-mortem reports, the PFUJ has decided to become a party in the assassination case. […]

• November 12, 2022
• Right to Information

ISLAMABAD: First batch of Information Commissioners of Pakistan Information Commission had completed their tenure on Tuesday November 07, 2022. Pakistan Information Commission’s first Chief Information Commissioner Mohammad Azam and Information Commissioner Fawad Malik has retired from his post. He has served as Chief Information Commissioner for four years, earlier this he also worked as Federal […]

• November 11, 2022
• General News

NAIROBI: The chairperson of Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has said that Arshad Sharif’s murder at the hands of Kenya’s police is being fully investigated to establish the facts surrounding the shooting. In an interview with Geo, IPOA Chairperson Anne Makori said the independent body has started a “full and thorough investigation to establish […]

• November 11, 2022
• General News

LAHORE (Dunya News) – New shocking revelations have come to light in the murder case of senior Pakistani journalist and anchor person Arshad Sharif, who was brutally martyred in Kenya. The revelations were made by senior journalist Kamran Shahid in his program “On the Front” on Dunya News. Unearthing shocking details of regarding the cold-blooded […]

• November 11, 2022
• Right to Information

Quetta: Speakers of the conference demanded Establishment of Balochistan Information Commission immediately by appointing the Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners in line with the criterion mentioned in Section 18 of the Balochistan RTI Act 2021. Accessing government information remains a challenge in Balochistan due to flawed implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act […]

• November 11, 2022
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court declares that the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman cannot be given the sole and unfettered powers to suspend broadcast licenses. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan and comprising Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Sayyed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi on Thursday heard the appeal against the Sindh High […]

• November 10, 2022
• Right to Information

QUETTA: Speakers at a conference demanded the establishment of Balo­chistan Information Commission and appointment of chief information commissioner without delay in accordance with Section 18 of the Balochistan Right to Information Act, 2021. The conference was organised by the Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) in collaboration with the European Union on Wednesday. The […]

• November 10, 2022
• General News

PESHAWAR Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Minister for Labour and Culture Shaukat Yousafzai has said that there will be no democracy in a country where journalism is not free. “Journalism should be free and impartial,” he added. The provincial minister participated as a special guest on the last day of the […]

• November 10, 2022
• General News

NAIROBI: Another finding has surfaced in the slain journalist Arshad Sharif murder case that suggests that the journalist was shot at a close range in the head by Kenya Police firearms unit and six bullets were fired at his Toyota Land Cruiser, footage obtained by Geo News showed. The three-minute video available to Geo News […]

• November 10, 2022
• General News

NAIROBI: The investigation teams of Geo News and The News have found out that renowned Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif died half-an-hour after the vehicle that had been reported missing was recovered. Douglas Wainaina Kamau, a floriculture dealer, said in a conversation with Geo News that he is the owner of Mercedes Benz Sprinter 311 with […]

• November 9, 2022
• Freedom of Expression

A few days ago Irfan Raza, a journalist from DAWN News, was reportedly abducted from Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and later was recovered from Chakri area in Rawalpindi. The unidentified armed kidnappers took away his vehicle. A few weeks ago, renowned journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead in Kenya. According to the International Federation of […]

• November 9, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb condemned the “attempt” made by former Prime Minister Imran Khan to “implicate” a group of pro-government journalists in the failed assassination attempt against him. In a statement, Aurangzeb advised Khan to do politics, but refrain from spreading mischief, chaos and disorder in the country. During Khan’s tenure, […]

• November 9, 2022
• Views and Opinion

Journalists make mistakes. Even the ones that think they’re better than everyone else and then one day have spectacular falls from grace and are consigned to the dustbin of history. I would cite the following examples in my classes to remind journalism students of the consequences of mistakes made by the media. There’s the infamously […]

• November 9, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Tuesday evidence suggested a prominent Pakistani journalist was the victim of a targeted killing in Kenya, not an accidental shooting, though he still needed more information on the incident. Kenyan police spokesman Bruno Shioso declined to respond to the minister’s comments on the death of TV journalist Arshad […]