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…
Category Archives: Opinion
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…
Editorial Compromises Hurting Pakistani Media
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…
The Question Of Intentions
When it came to media, it seems that former ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, lacked prudence and invested in quick fixes — a seemingly inoperable Right…
Am I a traitor?
There are two types of traitors. The first type joins hands with foreign enemies and helps enslave his own people. Among the most prominent names…
Hamid Mir Attack Probe: A Litmus Test of Justice For Media
The space is shrinking for independent journalism in Pakistan because of continuous violence against journalists by militants and state agencies. The attack on Hamid Mir,…
Reporting From Hell
Media in Pakistan entered 2014 under the old threat to journalists’ lives. Caught in bloody crossfire between blind state power and extremist terror, journalism has…
No Justice 3 Years After Wali Khan Babar Murder
Three years have passed since the murder of Geo TV journalist Wali Khan Babar in Karachi. While no justice has been found in Babar’s case,…
Missing Link Between Ethics & Safety
The buzz about journalists’ safety is louder now than ever before as serious threats continue to originate and impact from all sides in Pakistan with…
Unannounced Censorship In Pakistan
Exclusive Blog for Freedom Network “Don’t try to become a journalist. It’s a dangerous profession in Pakistan”. These were the words of my late…
Killing The News To Stay Alive
It is not easy to be a journalist in Pakistan’s volatile southwestern province Baluchistan. More than two dozen journalists have either been killed in…
We Are Killing Journalists
Investigative journalist Ali K. Chishti had a nightmare in Karachi on evening of August 30, 2013. He had been traumatized after being roughed up for…
Internet Surveillance In Pakistan
Tanvir Siddiqui (Not real name) calls himself a hacktavist (Hacking activist). He is the kind of geeky young man from Karachi who hacks into computer…