KP Govt Letter Asking Journalist To Make Saplings’ Supply Termed “Harassment”
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has sent journalist Arshad Aziz Malik a “supply order” to seek “million saplings” – a move the resident editor of Jang newspaper…
Category Archives: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Missing Tribal Journalists Return Home
Update – October 17, 2017 The two missing tribal journalists – Shah Nawaz Tarakzai and Islam Gul Afridi – returned home on October 16, 2017, after abduction on…
‘Media Houses Are Not Playing Due Roles In Protecting Journalists’
Former Peshawar Press Club president Syed Bukhar Shah says journalists in Peshawar and other parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are facing serious challenges of safety…
Court Order Sentencing Murderer Of Journalist Ayub Khattak To Life Imprisonment
Freedom Network obtained attested copy of the verdict of a court in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into a murder case involving journalist Ayub Khattak,…
Life Sentence For Killer Of Journalist In Pakistan
PESHAWAR: A court in Pakistan has awarded life imprisonment and fine of five million rupees ($50,000) to an accused charged with murdering journalist Ayub Khattak…
Seven Years of Unease For Late Musa Khan Khel family
Essa Khan Khel This year in February we observed the seventh death anniversary of my beloved brother Musa Khankhel Shaheed. We have yet to see…
Unidentified Gunmen Kill Journalist Hafiz-ur-Rehman In Kohat
Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot and killed journalist Hafiz-ur-Rehman in Kohat city on Sunday – 22 November 2015 – becoming the second casualty this month…
Tribal Journalist Zaman Mehsud Killed In Tank
Senior tribal journalist and ‘monitor’ for Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) for militancy-infested South Waziristan Muhammad Zaman Mehsud succumbed to his wounds hours after…
FN Calls On KP Govt To Protect Hangu Journalist
Freedom Network has called on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to order Hangu district administration to protect a senior journalist from any harm banned…
Renewed Attacks On Journalists & Media Workers In Pakistan – 2 killed, 2 Injured
There seems to be a spurt in attacks on journalists and media workers in Pakistan that has seen one killed and two injured within two…
Tribal Journalist Rasool Dawar Leaves Peshawar After Threats From Intelligence
Freedom Network calls on Pakistan Army spokesperson Major-General Asim Saleem Bajwa to look into enforced disappearance of Rasool Dawar, Geo News channel’s special correspondent in…
Poor State of Gender In Journalism in Pakistan
Freedom Network marks the International Women’s Day paying tributes to female journalists for continuing to work in one of the most dangerous countries for journalists…
E-Bulletin For January 2015
January 2015 Jan 05: Supreme Court indicts ARY TV channel anchor Mubashar Lucman and CEO Salman Iqbal in ‘contempt of court’ case. http://www.dawn.com/news/1155189/sc-indicts-ary-ceo-anchorperson-in-contempt-case Jan 08:…
Pakistan’s Failing Battle To Combat Impunity Against Journalists And Growing Hostile Working Conditions For Practitioners
A round-up of threats against media and attacks against journalists in Pakistan in 2014 By Iqbal Khattak Media in Pakistan continued to operate…
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…
FM Radio Stations’ Impact On Tribal Areas
Fazal Rehman Mehsud still sometimes reminiscences about what he calls his good old days when he was working as a producer at a local radio…
E-Bulletin For November 2014
Nov 7: Dera Bugti-based journalist Manzoor Ahmed Bugti goes missing from Quetta city. http://www.freedomnetwork.org.pk/baloch-journalist-goes-missing-in-quetta-city-since-nov-7/ Nov 7: Khud Niaz, the second accused in murder case…
Skewed Reporting Of Rape By Pakistani Media
In October 2013, many will still remember, a minor girl was picked up from a hospital courtyard in Lahore in Punjab, raped and then let…
State Intruding Into Citizen Privacy In Pakistan
How big the problem of digital surveillance is in Pakistan? Fairly alarming if the views expressed by citizens and experts during the first National Conference…
Monthly E-Bulletin For October 2014
Oct 1: Female TV show host and four others booked under blasphemy law after Islamabad High Court’s order. http://www.dawn.com/news/1135633/tv-show-host-four-others-booked-on-blasphemy-charge Oct 3: Nadeem Haider, working…