While covering by-elections in the Punjab province, a reporter for ARY News was verbally assaulted by Lahore’s capital city police officer. Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the incident. Journalists should be allowed to work without such challenges and their role in ensuring free and fair...
Read MoreImran Khan claimed that he never issued orders against any journalists and only found out about a journalist’s disappearance or treatment in Cabinet meetings. On July 16th 2022 at a seminar on media freedom in Islamabad, former PM and PTI Chairman Imran Khan claimed that he...
Read MoreISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has described the statement of former Prime Minister Imran Khan claiming that he did not have any hand in stifling the media as against facts and reality. In a statement issued on Sunday, PFUJ President Shahzada Zulfiqar and...
Read MoreFederal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb Saturday said that Imran Khan’s era was the darkest period for media. Addressing a news conference, the minister alleged Imran Khan is a habitual liar and a failed person, he only knows how to lie. She pointed out...
Read MorePTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday distanced himself from restraints put on media freedom during his government, saying that any journalists picked up by the authorities were not on his directives. Addressing a seminar on media freedom in Islamabad, he said: "[When I was the prime...
Read MorePakistan Press Foundation (PPF) welcomes the safe return of Aaj News Assignment Editor Nafees Naeem, a day after he was abducted by unidentified individuals in plain clothes. The circumstances of his abduction and return remain unclear. We urge the authorities to conduct an investigation and...
Read MoreAaj News senior staff member Nafees Naeem, who went missing on Monday after he was "picked up" by men in plainclothes, returned home safely within 24 hours of being abducted. The channel's director news, Kamal Siddiqi, shared the development on Twitter. "Aaj senior assignment editor Nafees Naim...
Read MoreKARACHI: Nafees Naeem, an assignment editor at Aaj News channel, went missing from near his home in Nazimabad on Monday afternoon and is believed to have been abducted by unknown persons traveling in a Vigo, according to police, the TV channel’s administration and media organizations. West-Zone...
Read MorePakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is concerned at the arrest of Dunya News correspondent Pir Muhammad Kakar on July 7 in the Loralai district of the Balochistan province. PPF urges authorities to provide more clarity about the reasons for the journalist’s arrest and ensure that legal...
Read MorePakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the attack on Bol News anchorperson Sami Abrahim and calls for an investigation into the incident. According to media reports, Abrahim was attacked by a transgender person outside the Bol News office in Islamabad. As per Dawn, the transgender person had...
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