Pressure On Media Increases as Political Tension Goes On
Freedom Network [FN] has called on leadership of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to restrain party activists and supporters from attacking media-personnel,…
Category Archives: News in Spotlight
Call To Protect Khuzdar Journalists & Reopen Press Club
Freedom Network [FN] has expressed grave concern at security threats to journalists in Khuzdar district of Balochistan and closure of its press club and has…
WorldCall Office Set Ablaze In Karachi For Airing Geo News Channel
Freedom Network [FN] calls the violence against the WorldCall office in Karachi as “a thinly veiled attempt to prevent the resumption of access to the…
Pakistani TV Reporter Given Jail Sentence In Afghanistan
Reporters Without Borders and the Pakistani press freedom organization Freedom Network condemn the four-year jail sentence that an Afghan court has imposed on Pakistani TV…
32 North Waziristan Journalists Also Become IDPs – Require Help
Freedom Network [FN] has appealed to the federal and provincial governments and military authorities to extend all possible assistance and help to over 30 journalists…
Pakistan Suspends ARY News & Geo Entertainment Channels
Freedom Network [FN] is alarmed at speed the electronic media regulatory body PEMRA is suspending lincences of free-to-air private independent news and entertainment channels as…
Court Bars TV Anchor From Show
Islamabad High Court stopped a TV anchor on June 11, 2014, from hosting a talk-show programme on ARY News channel after a petition seeking the…
Geo Suspension A Step Back For FoE & RTI In Pakistan
Freedom Network [FN] is alarmed at the precedent of limited duration banning of the broadcast operations of independent 24/7 Geo News channel because it reflects…
APNS President Calls For Restraint
Hameed Haroon, the President of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), has expressed concern that the freedom of press envisioned in Article 19 of the…
Hamid Mir Speaks Out, Still Holds ISI Responsible
In his first public statement, senior journalist Hamid Mir still held the country’s military-led Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency responsible for attack on him in Karachi…
PEMRA Serves Notice On Geo News For ISI Allegation
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority (PEMRA) late on Wednesday (April 23, 2014) served a show-cause notice on the administration of Geo News for allegedly bringing…
Political Activists Ransack Newspaper Office In Kashmir
Freedom Network [FN] expressed concern over attack on a newspaper’s office in Mirpur town in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on March 7 ransacking the office and threatening…
February 2014 Media Mapping
Pakistan Media Mapping – February 2014 Feb 04: Two-member ministerial committee constituted by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a day after killing of three media…
Brother Of Under-Threat Baloch Journalist Shot Dead
Ijaz Mengal, brother of underground Baloch journalist Riaz Mengal, was gunned down in Khuzdar district of Balochistan on February 14 and a separatist group claimed…
Death Threats For Geo TV Controller News Resisting Editorial Dictation
Freedom Network [FN] is concerned at attempts by a religious-cum-political organization to dictate editorial decisions of Geo News channel’s newsroom, threatening its controller news with…
January 2014 Media Mapping
Pakistan Media Mapping – January 2014 Jan 01: A TV journalist dies of bullet wounds Aab Takk bureau chief Shan Odho succumbed to his…
Concern Over Halting Blogger Malala Yousafzai’s Book Launch
The action of government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to withdraw security from launch ceremony of book of blogger Malala Yousafzai is clear breach of right of…
Security Threats: Govt, Media Meet To Control Situation
The two-member ministerial committee of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has met media houses’ representatives, working journalists and media development and safety expert to thrash…
Media Stakeholders Take Decisions To Fight Impunity
The Coalition on Media Safety (COMS) has demanded that federal and provincial governments to designate contact persons on violence against media so that media professionals,…
When Minhaj Burna Was Banned
The ghost of late Minhaj Barna, one of the most towering trade union leaders of journalists and other newspaper employees in Pakistan, looms large when…