LAHORE: A group of Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf (PTI) workers on Thursday thrashed a reporter of a local TV channel when he was covering the public gathering of the party at Minar-i-Pakistan. A group of the PTI workers turned offensive on seeing young reporter Khawar Mughal when he appeared with the logo of 92 TV channel at […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) president Shahzada Zulfiqar and secretary general Nasir Zaidi have expressed serious concern over the allegations levelled by former prime minister Imran Khan, without mentioning any name, that some journalists had received foreign funding and conspired against the country. In a joint statement on Thursday, they said if the […]
Khyber – Special Assistant to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif on Wednesday said that the provincial government striving hard to address issues being faced by the media persons of the merged tribal district, and will provide all facilities being enjoyed by the journalist community in other parts of the country. Talking […]
Few journalists would dispute the opinion that the PTI regime has left behind a legacy of crushing dissenting voices in the media, targeting individual journalists, media houses, social media opinion-makers and anyone with a pen or a mic it deemed as speaking against government policy. The punishments used varied from controlling the purse-strings to harassment […]
KARACHI: Pakistan on Wednesday sought a reply from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for publishing “fake and fabricated” news story pertaining to the Prime Minister’s House, Geo News reported. A complaint filed by Pakistan against the BBC Urdu was received by the Director General BBC, confirmed the broadcaster. On the complaint, the BBC has started […]
LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department (SED) has suspended two schoolteachers for using social media networking platforms in violation of an order barring them from such practices. The department has suspended schoolteachers – Umar Daraz of Government Girls Primary School 311/WB Tehsil Dunya Pur and Muhammad Waseem (PST) of Government Primary School Akhtarabad, Bahawalpur City, […]
With the new government setting about swiftly dismantling its predecessor’s information policy, the sword hanging over the media’s head seems a little less menacing. On Tuesday, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb announced that the Pakistan Media Development Authority — which, had the PTI government had its way, would have been armed with draconian powers to control the media […]
Senior Civil Judge Mohammad Qaddafi bin Zair sentenced a man to four-year rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs50,000 on him under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca 2016). According to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the conviction was announced by the judge while hearing a criminal case filed under Section 21 of […]
KARACHI: Civil Society held a protest, on Tuesday, outside Karachi Press Club, against striking off the names of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MPA Jam Awais and his brother MNA Jam Abdul Karim from the charge sheet of the Nazim Jokhio murder case. The protesters demanded justice for Jokhio and his family. They held placards demanding […]
ISLAMABAD: In her first policy statement, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Tuesday announced the long-demanded scrapping of the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) in “whatever shape or form it was”, vowed that no black law would be enacted that restricted freedom of expression, and criticised the social media drives against journalists and incitement to violence […]
The bar associations across the country have strongly condemned the “smear social media campaign” against the superior judiciary and demanded of the government to take notice of it under the cyber laws. In a joint statement, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) along with the legal fraternity noted that the campaign had […]
Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) President Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry on Tuesday said the AJK government would take all possible measures to address the problems being faced by the Kashmiri journalist community. Addressing the swearing-in ceremony of the members of the Central Working Committee of Central Press Club here, he said, “We will take care […]
LAHORE: Athar Masood, a senior journalist of Daily Jang, passed away on Monday. He was 70. He underwent heart bypass operation on Monday, but could not recover. He is survived by three sons — Mohsin Masood, Ahsan Masood, Hassan Masood — and a widow. He was laid to rest in Lahore. A large number of […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the recent acts of violence against the media community. In the weeks following the removal of the government led by Imran Khan there have been multiple incidents of physical violence as well as the online harassment of media personalities. Political sentiments have been running high since the proceedings of a […]
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