KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon Sunday said that FIR of the attack on Hamid Mir will be registered after having consultation with Hamid Mir and his family.Talking to mediapersons, Sharjeel said that attack on senior journalist Hamid Mir was an attack on freedom of media, adding that the Sindh government was taking the case […]
KARACHI: A delegation of nine American journalists called on Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at Bilawal House on Tuesday and discussed with him different issues pertaining to the media. Speaking to the delegation, Bilawal observed, “Freedom of media and the right of freedom of expression have both got interlinked due to the revolution […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression is concerned over the arrest and harassment of editor of an independent news website, Huang Qi and three citizen-journalists, who were the contributors to the site, in China. Quoting the information from Reporters Without Borders (RSF), PPF Secretary General […]
KARACHI: The media should be held accountable for its misdeeds but society is unable to perform its due role, because it is highly polarized, said journalist Owais Tohid at a panel discussion Taming the Media Beast: State Regulation vs Self Regulation held at The Second Floor on Thursday evening. The panellists were Mr Tohid along […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression is concerned over physical assault on Palestinian cameraman of Al-Mahid TV, Amer Hijazi by Canadian Prime Minister Stephan Harper’s security guard in Bethlehem, a Palestinian city located in the central West Bank. Quoting the information from Palestinian Centre for […]
BHURBAN: President Mamnoon Hussain on Sunday urged media to continue its responsibility for dealing effectively with terrorism and extremism besides promoting peace ventures in the region. Addressing the participants of a conference titled ‘Media and Extremist Narrative’ held under the auspices of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) here, he cautioned the media to remain […]
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined the Alliance for Access-a coalition of Pakistani media groups, academic and student organizations, and telecommunications companies working to promote open access-in condemning Monday’s attack on the offices of Express Media Group in Karachi, according to a CJP press release. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the Express […]
The freedom of media in Pakistan is a subject that garners much debate and even controversy; whether it is the contention on media’s stability as an institution or the safety of journalists and the press, one fact is obvious: It certainly is not an easy job. It becomes even more significant as an issue considering […]
Vo intizar tha jiska, ye vo sahar to nahin (It’s not the dawn we expected; It’s not the dawn we were looking for — Translated by Mahmud Jamal) THE words of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, written in August 1947, may well be applied to the outcome of the long struggle for freedom of the media in […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Pervaiz Rashid said Tuesday that right to information bill has been prepared as the government believed that freedom of media was imperative for further strengthening the democratic institutions. Addressing the meeting of Coalition on Safety of Journalist issues, Pervaiz Rashid said the said bill will soon be […]
MIRANSHAH: Gunmen released a journalist Friday a day after he was kidnapped in one of Pakistan’s tribal areas on the Afghan border, a relative said. “Armed men released Lal Wazir and dropped him near Azam Warsak Bazar today,” his uncle Ibrahim Wazir told AFP. Lal Wazir, 38, who works for a local newspaper in the […]
ISLAMABAD: Expressing its displeasure over registration of a case under anti-terrorist law against a private TV news channel, the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting Monday directed the Balochistan government to refrain from registration of cases against media. The committee meeting chaired by Senator Kamil Ali Agha said that FIR against a private TV […]
By: A.G. NOORANI PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif’s recent discussion with Subhash Chandra, the CEO of Zee TV, an Indian TV network, is noteworthy because what he said reflected the generally sad state of communications between the peoples of the two countries. Mr Sharif said that the regulatory regimes in India and Pakistan need to be […]
By: Asma Jehangir History shows that every wave of change, be it political, social, economic, humanistic or philosophical, has had its roots seeped in intellectual contemplation and this job is done by the brains of the society who ponder over wavelengths of time — past and future — for the sake of general masses. Professor […]
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