June 2016 June 01: PEMRA approves to start Direct-to-Home licensing process. http://www.radio.gov.pk/01-Jun-2016/pemra-approves-to-start-direct-to-home-service-licensing-process#.V07yKqJAUvs.twitter June 11: Baloch journalist Manzoor Ahmed is freed from captivity after he went…
A group of Pakistani civil society organizations, media rights groups and journalist institutions have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) call for release of its representative…
Five of Pakistan’s biggest press clubs and other platforms including four regional and a central union of journalists in partnership with Pakistan Press Club Safety…
May 2016 May 01: Senior journalist Shoaibul Hassan, who was picked up from his residence in Karachi by plainclothed and police uniform personnel on May…
April 2016 April 8: Report of Judicial Commission investigating attack on TV journalist Hamid Mir is leaked giving ISI a ‘clean chit.’ April 9: Plainclothed…
More than 1000 media practitioners and stake holders, including representatives of governments called on UNESCO’s 195 Member States to “reaffirm that press freedom and the…
Most of the movement in the World Press Freedom Index unveiled today by Reporters Without Borders is indicative of a climate of fear and…
A judicial commission set up in Pakistan to investigate a debilitating attack on prominent journalist Hamid Mir has not been able to determine the actual…
March 2016 March 04: Unidentified mob ransack Hyderabad Press Club. March 4: Supporters of Mumtaz Qadri attack office of Aaj TV in Karachi for lack…
By Ghulam Mustafa Whenever the history of Pakistan’s democracy is drafted, name of Karachi Press Club (KPC) will be penned with golden ink. Journalists, supporting…
Freedom Network obtained attested copy of the verdict of a court in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into a murder case involving journalist Ayub Khattak,…
PESHAWAR: A court in Pakistan has awarded life imprisonment and fine of five million rupees ($50,000) to an accused charged with murdering journalist Ayub Khattak…
Essa Khan Khel This year in February we observed the seventh death anniversary of my beloved brother Musa Khankhel Shaheed. We have yet to see…
February 2016 Feb 02: Several journalists were wounded during clashes between police, rangers and PIA employees in Karachi. Feb 07: Three shots were fired outside…
PARIS: Media leaders from around the globe gathered February 5 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris to strengthen the safety of journalists enlisting possible actions…
By Iqbal Khattak I met tribal journalist Hafiz Wazir for the first time in October 2003 in Wana, summer headquarters of South Waziristan, the hotbed…
January 2016 Jan 03: Senate says it will not allow PECB passed without stakeholders’ agreement http://epaper.tribune.com.pk/DisplayDetails.aspx?ENI_ID=11201601030026&EN_ID=11201601030016&EMID=11201601030003 Jan 05: Karachi police say they arrested two persons…
ISLAMABAD: If the year 2014 was the most murderous year in Pakistan’s history with 14 journalists and media assistants killed that year, the year 2015…
Hanif Ullah Anwar Ullah Khan from Bajaur agency is an old hand at journalism. He has the experience of working for both national and international…
December 2015 Dec 01: Three, including two policemen and an employee, injured in hand-grenade attack on DIN News channel’s office in Lahore and Islamic State…