One of the injured including Geo News cameraman Samiullah and has been shifted to the district headquarters hospital in Lower Dir as he is said to be in critical condition. The cameraman has sustained injuries on his head and his chest. Source: Geo News...
Read MoreNews: Pakistan is one of the countries where journalism is dangerous because there is no punishment for those who torture journalists and no decision is taken in such cases. Taking into account this situation, laws on the protection of journalists and other mass media workers...
Read MoreNews: On September 29, 2012, Abdul Razzaq, who lives in Khuzdar district, Balochistan, received the news that his brother, Abdul Haq Baloch, had been killed by unknown individuals. Abdul Razzaq shares that his brother had been a journalist for ten years and was working with...
Read MoreKARACHI: Pakistan has been ranked third in the world over the imposition of internet restrictions in the first half of 2023. According to a report by Surfshark, a virtual private network company headquartered in Lithuania, a half-year analysis of internet shutdown based on the Internet Shutdown...
Read MoreISLAMABAD—In a concerning trend for press freedom advocates, censorship in Pakistani media continues to raise alarms as incidents of muted speech and blurred images come to light. The latest incident involved Dunya News Television muting the mention of a prominent analyst's reference to the Vigo Pickup,...
Read MoreFinance Minister Ishaq Dar lost his cool with a reporter at the Parliament House on Thursday after being questioned about the completion of the stalled International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. After addressing a National Assembly session, Dar, flanked by his security guards, was departing the Parliament...
Read MorePESHAWAR: In a striking trend, despite a growing number of female graduates in Journalism and Mass Communication departments across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa universities, 90 percent of students are abandoning their journalism careers upon completion of their degrees. This unsettling underrepresentation of females in the field has sparked profound...
Read MoreNew York, May 24, 2023—Pakistani authorities must cease harassing journalists covering the country’s political unrest and respect the media’s right to report freely and safely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Since May 16, police have visited the homes of at least three journalists who...
Read MoreLAHORE: The Lahore Press Club says it has compiled a list of nearly 197 journalists and crew of the DSNG vans of various news channels who faced harassment and abuse of power by police. LPC President Azam Chaudhry told Dawn these media workers were discharging their...
Read MorePunjab Inspector General Dr Usman Anwar told the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday that there was no trace of anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan — whose whereabouts remain unknown since his arrest at Sialkot airport on May 11 — at any police department across the...
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