Mobile Internet Suspension: Journalists Suffer In KP Tribal Districts
Ibrahim Shinwari Over four years of suspension of mobile internet service in the newly merged tribal districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have greatly impacted the…
Category Archives: Opinion
Growing State Targeting Of Dissent Online And Chilling Free Speech
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…
Tribal Journalists Need Capacity Building To Cope With Post-Reform Challenges
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…
Shahzaib Gillani Case & Misuse of Cybercrime Law
Ghulam Mustafa It was a sunny and warm afternoon – but the air conditioner had ensured that the temperature was bearable. Sitting behind the elongated…
State Of Press Freedom In Pakistan
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…
Media Crisis: Financial Insecurity of Journalists In Balochistan
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…
“Calm” In Balochistan: A Temporary Relief For Journalists?
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…
Attack On Journalist In Zhob
By Hameedullah Sherani Journalist Assad Betani was beaten up by allegedly dozen of workers of Pakistan Muslim League – Q on April 7, 2018, in…
Press Freedom: Challenges For Pashtoon Belt In Balochistan
Hameedullah Sherani Journalists in Balochistan are facing multiple threats – be it in Baloch or Pashtoon areas. Freedom of expression has become scarce and threats…
“12 Hours” Coverage of Vintage Car Rally
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…
Tribal Areas: “Security Concerns Creating Difficulties In Reporting”
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…
Their Master’s Voice
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…
Trauma And Afghan Journalists
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…
Attack On Karachi Press Club
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…
10 Years Of Investigative Journalism In The Arab World
With a hidden camera, female Tunisian investigative journalist Hanene Zbiss, working with support from Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), went undercover for three…
Role Of Global Media: Fighting Or Promoting Violence?
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…
Worsening Media Regulatory Environment In Pakistan
Muhammad Aftab Alam Since April 19, 2014 – when Hamid Mir was attacked in Karachi – the overall state of media regulatory environment and media…
Meeting Sabeen The First Time
Iqbal Khattak Before reaching The Second Floor – T2F – I was somehow unwilling to travel through some of the more dangerous routes while leaving…
Bangladesh New ICT Law Curtails Free Speech Online
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…
Smaller Provinces’ Complaint Against Mainstream Media
There is a general sense in Pakistan’s two smaller provinces – Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – and the border regions with Afghanistan that the mainstream…