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No to impunity

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LAHORE: To mark International Day to End Impunity, which is being celebrated for the third year running on November 23, Reporters Without Borders is publishing 10 portraits of journalists and bloggers whose murders have not been solved or have not led to the conviction of their perpetrators and instigators. “Acts of violence against journalists and […]


Renewed fatwa calling for “actions” against journalists

Pakistan Press Foundation

Reporters Without Borders condemns a year-old fatwa naming certain Pakistani media and journalists as “enemies of the mujahideen” that was re-issued on 19 October in the form of a post on Twitter. “We condemn this explicit and targeted threat to journalists, which greatly increases the dangers to which they are already exposed,” Reporters Without Borders […]


Journalist released after kidnap

Pakistan Press Foundation

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 […]


Seven Newspapers Investigated For Printing Militants’ Press Release

Pakistan Press Foundation

Reporters Without Borders is releasing a copy of the “First Information Report” that police in Quetta, in the southwestern province of Balochistan, issued in response to a formal complaint on 15 May against seven newspapers for publishing a communiqué by the outlawed militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. “No one can dispute the right to file a complaint […]


Watchdog launches global press freedom ‘indicator’

Pakistan drops to 159th rank in press freedom index PARIS (Agencies): Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday launched a new indicator measuring global press freedom by aggregating the scores of its annual index, from perennial table-topping Finland to worst offenders Eritrea.”In view of the emergence of new technologies and the interdependence of governments and peoples, the […]


2013 World Press Freedom Index- Pakistan

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151 out of 179 in the latest worldwide index The press is caught in a vice between the Taliban which has stepped up its attacks and the security forces who continue in their old ways of harassing journalists. The country has scores of privately owned television and radio stations, putting it on the path of […]


PPF protests threats to Honduran journalist by police officers

Pakistan Press Foundation has expressed concern over the death threats to Itsmania Erohyna Pineda Platero, journalist, founder and head of the human rights organization Xibalba Arte y Cultur, by the police officers. Quoting information from Reporters Without Borders (RSF), PPF secretary general Owais Aslam Ali in a letter to the President of the Republic of […]