Pakistan Is Censoring Media Massively
Just months before the nation goes to general elections this year, mainstream as well as regional media is witnessing increased censorship brought together through court…
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E-Bulletin For March 2018
March 2018 March 02:AnjumMuneer Raja, who worked as sub-editor with Qaumi Pukarnewspaper, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Rawalpindi’s high security zone. https://www.dawn.com/news/1392728/journalist-employed-by-local-daily-shot-dead-in-rawalpindis-high-security-zone March…
Bara Press Club Reopens After Militancy Shut It Down Five Years Back
Ibrahim Shinwari The construction of Bara Press Club was completed in early 2009 only when it was shut down in September the same year after…
Two Journalists Killed As 15 Cases of Violations Against Media Practioners In March
FN Threat Data Analysis – March 2018 A total of 15 cases of murders, kidnapping, arrest, detaining, harassment, assault, attack on home, legal case, attack…
FN Slams Ban On Journalism In Orakzai Tribal Region
PESHAWAR, 20 March 2018: Journalists are barred from visiting or reporting Orakzai tribal district for last five months and local tribal journalists’ pleas to lift…
FN Concerned At Mysterious Disappearances Of Journalists In Interior Sindh
Two Sindhi journalists were reported missing after people in plain clothes and police uniforms whisked them away from interior Sindh province where feudal, tribal chieftain,…
E-Bulletin For February 2018
February 2018 Feb 04: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s chairman Imran Khan threatens journalist upon asking question https://www.dawn.com/news/1387163/imrans-threatening-one-liner-startles-journalists Feb 05: Journalist Ghulam Akbar survives attack on his life…
Life as a Woman Journalist in Pakistan: Threats, Harassment And Rejection
ADNAN REHMAT This book has been produced by Freedom Network, a Pakistani civil liberties group working on freedom of expression and access to information issues….
No Enabling Environment For Women Journalists In Pakistan: Asma
Award-winning journalist and TV anchor Asma Shirazi has said women journalists face safety and security issues and they are not provided equal opportunities in Pakistan…
Press Freedom: Challenges For Pashtoon Belt In Balochistan
Hameedullah Sherani Journalists in Balochistan are facing multiple threats – be it in Baloch or Pashtoon areas. Freedom of expression has become scarce and threats…
Journalists Face 15 Cases Of Assassination Bid, Abduction, Attacks, Harassment & Threats
FN Threat Data Analysis – February 2018 Fifteen cases of attempt to assassinate, abduction, harassment, attacks, verbal and written threats against journalists and censorship of…
KP Govt Letter Asking Journalist To Make Saplings’ Supply Termed “Harassment”
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has sent journalist Arshad Aziz Malik a “supply order” to seek “million saplings” – a move the resident editor of Jang newspaper…
Late Asma Jehangir: A Vacuum Hard To Fill
Haroon Rashid Pakistan has lost an iconic human rights defender and a brave voice. There can be no two opinions about it. The usual rhetoric…
Failed Abduction, Detention, Harassment & Shutting Down Radio’s Operations Key January 2018 Violations
FN Threat Data Analysis – January 2018 Nine cases, including failed attempt to abduct journalist, abduction of tribal journalist’s brother, shutdown of Radio Mashaal, harassment…
E-Bulletin For January 2018
January 2018 Jan 04: Federal Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Maryam Aurangzeb informs Senate Sub-Committee on Information and Broadcasting that her government decided…
‘Banned Group’ Ends Three-Month Media Boycott In Balochistan
Adnan Aamir On 19th January, banned Baloch insurgent group “Baloch Liberation Front (BLF)” announced to end its media boycott in Balochistan, its spokesperson Gohram Baloch…
Journalists Unsafe in Pakistan: Afzal Butt
Afzal Butt, the president of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), has acknowledged that journalists are not safe at all in this country. “They face…
Taha Siddiqui Escapes Abduction In Islamabad
Senior journalist Taha Siddiqui escaped an attempt to abduct him by unidentified armed men in Islamabad, increasingly becoming unsafe city for journalists in the country….
E-Bulletin For December 2017
December 2017 Dec 04: Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Anwar Raza allegedly attacked TV crew covering demolition of “illegal” marriage hall in Karachi. Dunya News bureau…
Eight Journalists Assaulted, Injured & Four Others Harassed and Booked
Freedom Network Threat Data Analysis – December 2017 Eight journalists, all from electronic media, were attacked and injured in line of duty and all of…