October Attacks Review
October proves one of the deadliest months for journalists’ safety in Pakistan. A working journalist and a media assistant were killed, a district reporter remains…
Category Archives: Islamabad
Concern Over Decree Encouraging Attacks On Media
Freedom Network [FN] expressed Tuesday concern at circulation of an old Fatwa, or religious decree, attributed to Pakistani Taliban-linked clerics encouraging attacks on media for…
Special Meeting On Media Threats In Baluchistan Soon
Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rasheed has announced that a special meeting of key media stakeholders will be convened with Baluchistan Chief…
Pakistan To Support UN Plan To Fight Impunity Against Media
The Steering Committee of Pakistan’s National Coalition on Media Safety (NCOMS) endorsed on 8 October 2013 the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of…
New Anti-Impunity Collaborative Platform
Leading media stakeholders in Pakistan are gathering next week in capital city Islamabad to join hands for the challenging task of combating impunity of crimes…
PTA Bans Website Of Gay People In Pakistan
Increasing restrictions on online freedom of expression (FoE) in Pakistan is becoming order of the day as the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), monitoring Internet, blocked…
MQM Serves Notice On NYT Editor, Publisher & Reporter
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) served the New York Times editor, publisher and reporter a defamation notice of US$ 10 million for the article in the…
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…
Ethics of Live Media Coverage in Pakistan
The age of real-time media in Pakistan is now well into its second decade while live coverage is for most media consumers a pretty…
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…
Terrorism Case Against ARY Withdrawn
Baluchistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baluch withdrew Tuesday (August 27, 2013) a First Information Report (FIR) registered against private ARY News TV channel for…