• July 23, 2022
• General News

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 […]

• July 23, 2022
• Print Media

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 […]

• July 21, 2022
• Freedom of Expression

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 […]

• July 21, 2022
• Arts and Entertainment

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 […]

• July 21, 2022
• General News

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 […]

• July 21, 2022
• Broadcasting, Television

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 […]

• July 21, 2022
• Social Media

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 […]

• July 21, 2022
• General News

A court in Balochistan’s Barkhan district convicted the murderer of journalist Anwar Jan Khetran to life imprisonment on Wednesday morning. The Additional Session Judge, Tasawur Naveed announced the judgment. The court also fined the accused Rs. 2 lakh. Senior journalist Anwar Jan Khetran was killed in a firing incident on July 23rd, 2020 in the […]

• July 21, 2022
• General News

KARACHI (PR) – President of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Kazim Khan has announced establishment of CPNE Media Safety and Security Committee.  In a statement issued by CPNE Secretary General Aamir Mehmood, it is maintained that Media Safety and Security Committee’s objectives would be assessment of security risks to journalists, editors and employees of […]

• July 21, 2022
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday received the record of PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s speeches and allegations against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Geo News reported. To keep mounting pressure on ECP for the delay in the reserved verdict of the foreign […]

• July 21, 2022
• Freedom of Expression

Imran Khan claimed that he never issued orders against any journalists and only found out about a journalist’s disappearance or treatment in Cabinet meetings. On July 16th  2022 at a seminar on media freedom in Islamabad, former PM and PTI Chairman Imran Khan claimed that he never issued orders against any journalists and only found […]

• July 20, 2022
• Social Media

A fake video of journalist Sana Bucha is being shared by PTI supporters on social media, where a filter has been placed on her to make it look like she is ‘crying’ over the PTI’s victory in the Punjab by-elections. PTI Supporters Spread Fake Video of Sana Bucha’s Reaction to PTI’s By-Election Victory A fake […]

• July 20, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has received the record of PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s remarks against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja and the commission from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). Earlier, in a letter written to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), the ECP had expressed its desire […]

• July 19, 2022
• General News

PESHAWAR: In pursuance of the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information and Public Relations Department notification, Farah Hamid Khan, ex-PAS (BS-22), assumed the charge of the chief information commissioner, Right to Information Commission KP.On the recommendations of the chief minister, the cabinet, and government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had appointed Farah Hamid Khan as the chief information […]