KARACHI: TikTok, the world’s fastest growing social media app, has announced a new set of features for users in Pakistan along with an enhanced content classification system — an ‘additional layer’ of content moderation, protecting younger users from potentially unsettling or age-inappropriate content. According to an announcement by TikTok Pakistan, the additions aim to “provide […]
As expected, the country’s digital connectivity sector had an abysmal time last fiscal vis-à-vis foreign investment. As per the latest central bank data, the telecommunications industry’s foreign direct investment (FDI) tally had dropped significantly to a net outflow of $29 million in FY22, as opposed to $43 million in net inflows in the year-ago period. […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday congratulated the newly elected office bearers of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ). Source: The News
CHARSADDA: The police here on Sunday claimed to have arrested a man accused of killing a journalist recently. Assistant Superintendent of Police Bilal Ahmad told reporters that the police arrested the accused identified as Saifullah on the charges of killing a journalist Iftikhar Ahmad, who was working for a private television channel. The slain journalist […]
ISLAMABAD: The senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Dr Shireen Mazari Saturday accused the United States embassy in Islamabad of “tracking” journalists and her party leadership. In a statement on twitter, she said that “US Embassy tracking journos [journalists] and PTI.” Giving details, she said that a senior journalist from a leading English daily made a […]
KARACHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), since its establishment in 1957, has served as a collective body of Pakistani newspaper editors dedicated to protecting press freedom and the right to access information in the service of democratic practice and strengthening democratic institutions in the country. On 19th July 2022, CPNE constituted Media Safety […]
Federal Minister for IT and Telecom Syed Amin-Ul-Haque on Friday called for strengthening the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) in terms of financial and Human Resources in order to achieve the PM’s target of an increase in IT/ITeS exports. The minister expressed these views while chairing the 52nd meeting of the Board of Directors of […]
ISLAMABAD – President Dr Arif Alvi has said that all state institutions and media should endeavour to create enabling environment for setting up a government which was truly representative of the people of Pakistan. The president while addressing the 5th Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Business Excellence Awards ceremony, at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Thursday […]
KARACHI – Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) President Kazim Khan has announced establishment of CPNE Editors-Government Liaison Committee. According to a statement issued by the CPNE Secretary General, Amir Mahmood, the objectives of the Editors-Government Liaison Committee include right to awareness, freedom of the press and policies and laws related to the media, problems […]
While covering by-elections in the Punjab province, a reporter for ARY News was verbally assaulted by Lahore’s capital city police officer. Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the incident. Journalists should be allowed to work without such challenges and their role in ensuring free and fair elections through accurate reporting must not be threatened. On July […]
LAHORE:Pakistan’s filmmaker won prestigious Stefanus Prize for interfaith harmony.Wagma Feroz, filmmaker, rights activist and journalist awarded Stefanus Prize for interfaith harmony in a selected gathering in Oslo, Norway on June 24. Wagma’s short film “She Makes Everything beautiful”, was the Grand Prize Winner in a competition under the Empower Women Media for 2021. It’s the […]
PESHAWAR: Four female journalists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have brought laurels to the country by winning international awards in Film Making on women empowerment and religious freedom. The four journalists of KP surprised all by bagging top positions in the international awards sponsored by Empower Media Women. The winning journalists are Zeenat Bibi who clinched the […]
ISLAMABAD—As many as 85 state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) employees are employed based on fake educational degrees. Secretary Ministry of Information Shahira Shah, while briefing the Public Accounts Committee, stated that investigating the degrees of PTV employees is going on. So far, the degrees of 85 employees have been found fake. The secretary said the salaries […]
ISLAMABAD—The world’s leading short-form video platform TikTok has released its global Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, highlighting that it removed 12.5 million videos from Pakistan. It said that Pakistan ranks second in the world for the most videos taken down from the TikTok platform over violation of community guidelines during the first quarter of 2022. The […]
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