News : The Constitution of Pakistan is the highest law of the land. It guarantees certain fundamental rights for all citizens, including the right to freedom of expression. Article 19 of the constitution stipulates that “every citizen shall have the right to freedom of speech...
Read MorePakistan is one of the countries where the profession of journalism is dangerous because there is no punishment for those who torture journalists and no decision can be taken in such cases. In view of this situation, legislation has been adopted to guarantee the protection...
Read MoreKARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and former federal information minister Fawad Chaudhry has once again come down hard on journalists, warning that a list of certain journalists critical of the judges is being prepared and calling for their boycott. And this isn’t the first time the PTI...
Read MoreISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking registration of a criminal case against former army chief retired Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, ex-director general Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Faiz Hameed and two journalists for making certain revelations in an interview of...
Read MoreLHC The Lahore High Court on Thursday declared sedition laws as ultra vires of the Constitution and struck down Section 12-A of the Pakistan Penal Code. The order of the court came on a set of petitions filed by citizens challenging the sedition law on grounds...
Read MoreRail Bazaar, Faisalabad police on Thursday booked 50 workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on charges of thrashing media persons, snatching and damaging their belongings. Submitting an application, the Electronic Media Association Vice President Munawar Iqbal said that the media persons were performing their duty at the...
Read MoreISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Thursday decided to consider the bill on protection of journalists in its next meeting. The committee met here under the chairmanship of Javeria Zafar. The meeting sought a detailed briefing on senior anchorperson Arshad Sharif’s...
Read MoreTOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad journalists and press photographers boycotted the press conference of former PTI minister Farrukh Habib at his office in Samanabad on Wednesday after party activists tortured some reporters and cameraman. Habib had invited the media to hail the ‘party victory’ in the Punjab...
Read MoreThe Commission for the Protection of Journalists and Other Media Practitioners (CJMP) will strive for tackling impunity for crimes against journalists and the media in Sindh, Rasheed Rizvi, a retired judge, said on Thursday. In his concluding remarks at a meeting of the Pakistan Journalists Safety...
Read MoreReporters Sans Frontiers has ranked Pakistan in 157 out of 180 countries with a score of 37.99 on account of severe constraints in media freedom. It said the country ever since Independence has oscillated between civil society’s quest for greater press freedom and the political...
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