LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a notice to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on a contempt petition of PTI Chairman Imran Khan questioning violation of a stay order against ban on coverage of his speeches. A counsel submitted before the court that it had suspended the ban imposed by the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on Monday took notice of the lapses and loopholes in the investigation of the F-9 Park rape case wherein a woman was raped by two men at gunpoint. Reviewing the rape at F9 Park, which happens to be third in the line of two similar incidents that […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmakers and supporters staged a protest near the PIDC Intersection against enforced disappearances and illegal detention of the party’s social media activists. The protestors blocked roads leading to Karachi Port, Cantt Railways Station, City Railways Station, The CM House and the Governor House. PTI Parliamentary Leader in Sindh Assembly Khurram Sher Zaman, PTI […]
KARACHI: The APNS expresses its profound grief over the sad and sudden demise of its senior colleague veteran publisher, Mumtaz A Tahir, chief editor Daily Aftab Multan and Lahore. Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani President and Sarmad Ali, Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have stated that Tahir was a consistent upholder of the rights […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and former federal information minister Fawad Chaudhry has once again come down hard on journalists, warning that a list of certain journalists critical of the judges is being prepared and calling for their boycott. And this isn’t the first time the PTI leader has hurled such threats. He issued similar threatening […]
KARACHI: A PTI social media activist who attended a protest against “enforced disappearances” of his fellow party workers has been missing since Friday, family and the police said on Saturday. Mohammed Salman, general secretary of PTI Sindh’s social media wing and chairman-elect of Union Council-8 at Karachi’s Burnes Road, had left his home in the […]
QUETTA – Governor of Balochistan Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar congratulated the newly-elect president, general secretary and cabinet on their success in the ‘Press Club’ elections here. In his message issued on Friday, the Governor expressed hope that the relations between the newly-elect officials of the Quetta Press Club, the government and the press would […]
WASHINGTON: The struggle is to create room for the majority in the virtual space dominated by technology companies and governments, argued Nighat Dad, a Pakistani digital rights activist who participated in this week’s US democracy summit that Pakistan did not officially attend. “It’s really important that … we focus on the experiences of marginalised groups […]
ISLAMABAD: The details of the action taken against malicious and sectarian content on social media were presented in the Upper House, 59,253 URLs based on objectionable content on social media platforms Action against, 35 thousand controversial pages of Facebook were blocked, the ministers also told that there is no car manufacturer available in Pakistan for […]
ISLAMABAD: The Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) has called on the government to appoint an information commissioner from the civil society. The commissioner should be appointed in accordance with the criteria set out in Section 18(c) of the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017with proven expertise in human rights and the right […]
Pakistan has underscored the need for building capacities and technological resourcefulness of the media in the developing countries to combat fake news, saying factual information was the “greatest need” of the people. “The rapid pace of advances in new technologies, particularly in digital technologies, are having a major impact on the world, affecting all our […]
ISLAMABAD – Journalist Panel won the annual election of National Press Club (NPC) Islamabad 2023-24 with a thumping majority. Twenty-six candidates of the Journalist Panel and two candidates of the Javed Malik Group were declared successful. A large number of journalists from the twin cities participated in the elections and 1943 exercised their right to […]
ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking registration of a criminal case against former army chief retired Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, ex-director general Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Faiz Hameed and two journalists for making certain revelations in an interview of the ex-army chief. The registrar office of the IHC, however, […]
In the male-dominated media environment of northern Pakistan, women in journalism are often marginalised by their families, colleagues, and the media community. In an exclusive interview, freelance journalist Shereen Karim shares her experiences, challenges and aspirations as a freelancer woman journalist in Gilgit, writes Lubna Jerar Naqvi. Shereen is one of the few women journalists […]
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