Media Analysis February 2017: Murder, Arrest And Threats
Monitoring and Analyzing Threats and Attacks against Media in Pakistan: February 2017 Report by Freedom Network In February 2017, a total of 17 cases of…
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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…
The Swedish Experience To Make Freedom Of Expression Stronger
Ingrid Teresia During the spring 2017, an exhibition on the Swedish Press Freedom Act will be displayed in Press Clubs around Pakistan. This is made…
UN Secretary General Pledges To Take Action On Journalist Safety
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to take steps to address the urgent issue…
FoE In Pakistan: 2017 Gets Off To An Ominous Start
Media Analysis January 2017: murder, arrests and fear Killings, Attacks and Threats against Journalists In the context of freedom of expression the year 2017…
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…
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…