Freedom Network, Islamabad-based Pakistani media watchdog organisation, releases Safety Advisory to sensitise journalists, photographers, cameramen, media assistants and their organisations on need to take measures…
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…
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has sent journalist Arshad Aziz Malik a “supply order” to seek “million saplings” – a move the resident editor of Jang newspaper…
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….
Paramilitary force detained five tribal journalists and a press club employee after a magnetic bomb was discovered beneath the car they were riding in Landikotal…
Young journalist Zafarullah Achakzai is handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on June 28, 2017, to try him under Prevention of Electronic Crimes…
With the turn of the Century and the new Millennium, Pakistan has revolutionized itself by way of digital communications. Growth in telecom industry, convergence of…
ISLAMABAD – August 31, 2016 – Pakistani media rights watchdog Freedom Network has launched a dedicated website – Mehfooz Sahafi – the first ever in…
KARACHI: Sarwar Nanori, father of Shaukat Nanori, working for Sindh News channel in Khairpur district of Sindh province, was murdered on July 28 and his…
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…
Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot and killed journalist Hafiz-ur-Rehman in Kohat city on Sunday – 22 November 2015 – becoming the second casualty this month…
Five of Pakistan’s largest press clubs came together in Islamabad on November 5, 2015 to launch a new concerted plan supported by International Media Support…
Senior tribal journalist and ‘monitor’ for Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) for militancy-infested South Waziristan Muhammad Zaman Mehsud succumbed to his wounds hours after…
Freedom Network [FN] has welcomed the decision of Reporters Without Borders to temporarily rename the street on which Pakistan Embassy is located after slain Pakistani…
Freedom Network has called on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to order Hangu district administration to protect a senior journalist from any harm banned…
In an initiative two days before International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (30 August), Reporters Without Borders has referred the cases of missing…
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) issued Friday (August 2015) a new code of conduct for electronic media introducing new measures to audit contents and…
Freedom Network is alarmed at new measures to officially impose a new regime of censorship for newspapers in Pakistan. Freedom of expression is a universally…
While the world observes May 03 as the international day of Press Freedom, many in Pakistan think that the real day when journalists resisted efforts…
Freedom Network calls on Pakistan Army spokesperson Major-General Asim Saleem Bajwa to look into enforced disappearance of Rasool Dawar, Geo News channel’s special correspondent in…