E-Bulletin For January 2017
Jan 2017 Jan 04: Bloggers Waqas Goraya and Asim Saeed went missing from Lahore. Jan 06: Salman Haider, a professor at Fatima Jinnah University in…
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Attacks Diminish Pluralist Online Discourse In Pakistan
Adnan Rehmat The years 2015 and 2016 were bad enough for social media activism in Pakistan – activists Sabeen Mahmud and Khurram Zaki paid with…
Family of US Writer Paul Overby Asking For Information
Paris-based media rights organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called 25 January 2017 for the immediate release of Paul Overby, an American independent writer who was…
Media Analysis December 2016: Abduction And Harassment Continue
Monitoring and Analyzing Threats and Attacks against Media in Pakistan: December 2016 Report by Freedom Network In the month of December 2016 in Pakistan,…
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…
E-Bulletin For December 2016
December 2016 Dec 02: Muhammad Usman, correspondent of Waqt TV channel and Jehan-e-Pakistan newspaper in Dera Ismail Khan, was detained for hours after military officials…
‘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…
Journalists Demand Early Federal & Provincial Laws On Their Safety
ISLAMABAD: December 27, 2016: The 20,000-strong community of working journalists in Pakistan on Tuesday (December 27, 2016) demanded the federal and provincial governments to expedite…
Threats, Attacks, Harassment Media Faced In Nov 2016
Monitoring and Analyzing Threats and Attacks against Media in Pakistan: November 2016 Report by Freedom Network Media Analysis November 2016: harassment & Intimidation Killings, Attacks…
E-Bulletin For November 2016
November 2016 Nov 01: Infuriated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers attack Geo News channel’s satellite van near Swabi during the Imran Khan’s party march towards Islamabad http://www.dawn.com/news/1293594/infuriated-pti-workers-attack-geo-news-van-in-swabi…
E-Bulletin For October 2016
October 2016 Oct 4: PEMRA says it will cancel licences of TV channels if Indian content is aired as relations between Pakistan and India are…
Media Analysis October 2016: Injuries and Threats Killings, Attacks And Threats Against Journalists
Monitoring and Analyzing Threats and Attacks against Media in Pakistan: October 2016 Report by Freedom Network In the month of October 2016, a total of…
Why Do You Need a Free Media?
Hamid Mir Do you know that only 13 percent of the world population enjoys a free press? According to Freedom House report “Press Freedom in…
Sindh Rangers Tortures Samaa TV Reporter In Karachi
A senior Samaa TV reporter was treated inhumanly after Paramilitary force Sindh Rangers picked him up outside his residence in Karachi on October 18, 2016,…
E-Bulletin For September 2016
September 2016 Sept 01: ARY News channel’s local reporter in Gwardar port city of Balochistan was stopped from covering the function where Prime Minister Nawaz…
‘Media War’ Between Two Rival South Asian Neighbours
Haroon Rashid For many the media war between the two arch rivals India and Pakistan begins the moment a major terrorist attack takes place on…
Deaths, Injuries, Attacks and Harassment: A Month of Sorrows for Media
Monitoring and Analyzing Threats and Attacks against Media in Pakistan: August 2016 Report by Freedom Network Killings, Attacks and Threats against Journalists In the month…
An Expanding Digital Society: FN Launches Research On State Of Online Freedom In Pakistan
With the turn of the Century and the new Millennium, Pakistan has revolutionized itself by way of digital communications. Growth in telecom industry, convergence of…
E-Bulletin For August 2016
August 2016 August 01: Law enforcement agencies carried out search operation at residence of Baluchistan Union of Journalists president Hamdullah Rind in Quetta city. Aug…
‘Mehfooz Sahafi’ – Pakistan’s First Website In Urdu On Journalists’ Safety
ISLAMABAD – August 31, 2016 – Pakistani media rights watchdog Freedom Network has launched a dedicated website – Mehfooz Sahafi – the first ever in…