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…
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…
When it came to media, it seems that former ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, lacked prudence and invested in quick fixes — a seemingly inoperable Right…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…