Nighat Dad Online spaces have often been touted as “ungovernable” given their decentralized and democratized content generation models. This ungovernability is, however, grossly exaggerated in…
Ibrahim Shinwari “Almost six months have gone past since the extension of judicial system to the seven newly merged tribal districts in March this year…
Ghulam Mustafa It was a sunny and warm afternoon – but the air conditioner had ensured that the temperature was bearable. Sitting behind the elongated…
Iqbal Khattak Main theme for this year’s edition of World Press Freedom Day, falling on 3 May, is relationship between the press and democracy. The…
Hameedullah Sherani Currently in Balochistan, the journalists are facing extremely difficult situations. There is no journalism. Journalist community is enjoying no freedom of speech. In…
Adnan Amir Balochistan has been one of the most turbulent regions of Pakistan in the last decade. The violence also took its toll on journalism…
By Hameedullah Sherani Journalist Assad Betani was beaten up by allegedly dozen of workers of Pakistan Muslim League – Q on April 7, 2018, in…
Hameedullah Sherani Journalists in Balochistan are facing multiple threats – be it in Baloch or Pashtoon areas. Freedom of expression has become scarce and threats…
This piece is eyewitness account of arrest of five tribal journalists and office boy of Landikotal Press Club in Landikotal town in Khyber tribal region…
Khyal Mat Shah Afridi Due to security concerns in areas of FATA and the Khyber Agency, tribal area journalists face difficulties in carrying out their…
Hamid Mir I still remember the day when an English daily newspaper, owned by late Salman Taseer, the former governor of Punjab, ran a front-page…
By Iqbal Khattak Violence indicators were soon emerged as I stepped out of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, capital of war-battered Afghanistan, trying to…
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…
With a hidden camera, female Tunisian investigative journalist Hanene Zbiss, working with support from Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), went undercover for three…
Haroon Rashid Terrorism has dominated our TV screens for several decades now. The last 14 years in Pakistan were full of blasts and blood on…
Muhammad Aftab Alam Since April 19, 2014 – when Hamid Mir was attacked in Karachi – the overall state of media regulatory environment and media…
Iqbal Khattak Before reaching The Second Floor – T2F – I was somehow unwilling to travel through some of the more dangerous routes while leaving…
Saleem Samad A secular and democratic Bangladesh has promulgated a new draconian law Information and Communication Technology (ICT) (Amendment) Ordinance-2013 which empowers law enforcers to…
There is a general sense in Pakistan’s two smaller provinces – Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – and the border regions with Afghanistan that the mainstream…
Pakistan is one of few Muslim countries where the media has become powerful in recent years and exercises a fair degree of independence in freedom…