LAHORE: The final day of the three-day-long All Pakistan Women Journalists Convention (APWJC) drew to a close on Sunday with a declaration, authored by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), on the rights of female and male journalists in the country. Addressing a gathering of woman journalists and anchors here at the Lahore Press […]
In December 1993, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly declared May 3 World Press Freedom day, to remind governments of their duty to respect the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The date was not chosen arbitrarily; May 3 is the anniversary of the Windhoek […]
ISLAMABAD: The attempted assassination of one of Pakistan’s best-known journalists demands purposeful action at all levels of government, law, police and community – and revived Commonwealth and international action, said Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) in a statement released Thursday. It said: “It’s time for all authority to say “Stop. We’re sick of this. And we […]
While Iraq topped the list of countries where killings of journalists go unscathed, Pakistan showed a modest improvement with the conviction of six men for the assassination of Wali Khan Babar. CPJ’s (Committee to Protect Journalists) 2014 Global Impunity Index, referring to Wali Khan Babr’s case, noted that Pakistan has shown improvement with regard to […]
TONSBERG (Norway): While Taliban accuse Pakistani journalists of siding with ‘disbelievers’ against Muslims, Norwegian Christian fundamentalist, Anders Behring Breivik, thought the European journalists are soft on Muslim immigrants, blames them, among others, for ‘Islamic colonisation’ of Europe and declares them ‘category B traitors.’ Anders who killed 77 people in July 2011 through bombing in Oslo […]
LAHORE: The South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and the South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) have slammed as outrageous an attack on anchor and columnist Raza Rumi in which his driver was killed and his guard injured. “We note with indignation that this is the fifth attack on the media group. The impunity perpetrators for […]
If there is a bomb blast, there will be two kinds of people running towards the bombsite rather than away from it: the police and the media. Both have lost their lives due to the nature of their jobs. While the Pakistani police are still unsung and uncared for, the dangers to the Pakistani media […]
On Saturday March 1, 2014 a Pakistani court convicted six defendants for their roles in the murder of Wali Khan Babar, a Geo TV journalist who was shot dead in Karachi in January 2011, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the convictions – the first in the murder of a Pakistani […]
New York, March 3, 2014–A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted six defendants for their roles in the murder of Wali Khan Babar, a Geo TV journalist who was shot dead in Karachi in January 2011, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the convictions–the first in the murder of a Pakistani journalist–but […]
KARACHI: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on March 1, 2014 awarded the death sentences to two persons and life imprisonment to four in the murder case of Wali Khan Babar reporter of Geo television network. The two awarded death sentences are fugitives while four are in custody. Babar was killed in Karachi on January 13, 2011 by […]
Karachi: The media is a business that is often guided by money. But is journalism a business too? Or is it a profession with certain underlying responsibilities? Should a reporter always be polite? If so, would it not lead to some sort of an innocuous client-vendor relationship? Similarly, how far can a reporter go to […]
Karachi: Asharq Al-Awsat—Fears are growing among Pakistan’s journalists following a recent spate of killings and death threats against media workers in the country that have been linked to the Pakistani Taliban. In response, some journalists have hired bodyguards to accompany them at work, while others have asked their families to leave the country. Perceptions of […]
NEW YORK: Famous American author and journalist David Rohde, who escaped from Taliban captivity, has said that Pakistan should adopt a both dialogue and offence policy towards Taliban and it seems as if the Pakistani government is adopting the same combination. The people who believe in dialogue should be treated the same way but the […]
Journalist leaders today urged the United Nations to take steps against Pakistan for its reaction over the execution of war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah. Leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) also expressed solidarity with the 20-hour ultimatum of the Gonojagoron Mancha, known for spearheading a youth movement […]
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