ISLAMABAD, May 1, 2018: An award-winning Pakistan-based media rights watchdog Freedom Network has recorded over 150 cases of attacks and violations against media and its…
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…
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,…
Freedom Network welcomes unanimity reached among key stakeholders to protect journalists and media workers emphasizing the need for safety-focused law with federal government scrapping its…
Journalists Risk Lives and Livelihoods in Pakistan Special Report on Impunity for Crimes against Journalists in Pakistan – 2017 Crimes against journalists are a thriving…
Update – October 17, 2017 The two missing tribal journalists – Shah Nawaz Tarakzai and Islam Gul Afridi – returned home on October 16, 2017, after abduction on…
Senior journalist Rana Tanvir, who is taking up issues of religious minorities and human rights in his writings, was run over by a car on…
The federal government released on Wednesday – May 10, 2017 – administrative decisions taken after the findings of an Inquiry Committee probing leaks of meeting…
ISLAMABAD: December 27, 2016: The 20,000-strong community of working journalists in Pakistan on Tuesday (December 27, 2016) demanded the federal and provincial governments to expedite…
A senior Samaa TV reporter was treated inhumanly after Paramilitary force Sindh Rangers picked him up outside his residence in Karachi on October 18, 2016,…
The journalists of six mainstream independent current affairs televisions channels in Pakistan, the office of one of the channels and the Karachi Press Club, came…
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…
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…
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…
GENEVA, Dec 9, 2015 – The International Press Institute (IPI), Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN), Geneva Global Media and the Geneva Press Club presented 9…
The federal government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif released, for the first time, officials figures of journalists killed, injured or kidnapped in the last five…
Freedom Network expressed indignation over murder of a young journalist in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province where impunity of crimes against media and journalists has…
Freedom Network is shocked at brutal murder of media and human rights activist Ms Sabeen Mahmud who was shot dead in Karachi on Friday –…
Freedom Network welcomes announcement by paramilitary force in Karachi that ‘convicted killer” of Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar was taken into custody after March…
A little known group ‘Shura-e-Fidayaan Islam’ or ‘Council of Suicide Bombers of Islam’ has sent Quetta Press Club a “threatening letter” to demand that four…