Men In ‘Police Uniform’ Kidnap Geo News Bureau Chief In Karachi
Unknown motorists, some dressed in ‘police uniform,’ kidnapped Fahim Siddiqui, the Karachi-based Bureau Chief of Geo News TV channel, from Karachi’s North Nazimabad area on…
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E-Bulletin For June 2015
June 2015 Late journalist Zafarullah Jatak June 01: Azad Kashmir government bans Geo News channel in the Pakistan-administered region over a map controversy not showing…
Journalist Zafarullah Jatak Killed In Balochistan Province
Freedom Network expressed indignation over murder of a young journalist in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province where impunity of crimes against media and journalists has…
Travails Of Live Media Coverage In Pakistan
Haroon Rashid Sometime in 2011 a popular anchor of state-run PTV channel invite me to his primetime talk show. I had by that time taken…
E-Bulletin For May 2015
May 2015 May 01: PEMRA issues notices to 14 TV channels over live speech of Altaf Hussain who criticized army after a police official charged…
Mass Gag On Entire Print Media
Freedom Network is alarmed at new measures to officially impose a new regime of censorship for newspapers in Pakistan. Freedom of expression is a universally…
Worsening Media Regulatory Environment In Pakistan
Muhammad Aftab Alam Since April 19, 2014 – when Hamid Mir was attacked in Karachi – the overall state of media regulatory environment and media…
FN Welcomes UN Security Council Resolution On Journalists Safety
Freedom Network welcomed the United Nations Security Council’s resolution 2222 (2015) calling for protection of journalists worldwide, including Pakistan, in armed conflict. “This resolution is…
Photojournalism competition for journalists of KP, PATA and FATA
Freedom Network, in collaboration with Peshawar Press Club, launches ‘Photojournalism Competition’ for photojournalists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Provincially Administered Tribal…
When Journalists Were Flogged In Pakistan
While the world observes May 03 as the international day of Press Freedom, many in Pakistan think that the real day when journalists resisted efforts…
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…
Riga Declaration Reaffirms importance Of FoE & Press Freedom For Sustainable Development
Celebrations marking this year’s World Press Freedom Day ended today in Riga with the adoption of the Riga Declaration, a non-binding statement expressing the commitment…
E-Bulletin For April 2015
State of freedom of press and freedom of expression and online freedom in Pakistan during April 2015 April 2015 April 7: Military releases tribal journalist…
Meeting Sabeen The First Time
Iqbal Khattak Before reaching The Second Floor – T2F – I was somehow unwilling to travel through some of the more dangerous routes while leaving…
Host Of Discussion On Balochistan Shot Dead In Karachi
Freedom Network is shocked at brutal murder of media and human rights activist Ms Sabeen Mahmud who was shot dead in Karachi on Friday –…
RSF, FN Urge Legislators To Overhaul Draconian Cyber-Crimes Bill In Pakistan
Alarmed by the draconian nature of a cyber-crime bill that a Pakistani parliamentary committee approved last week, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partner, Freedom…
My Bloody Fight For Right To Know
Exclusive blog for Freedom Network by journalist HAMID MIR marking the first anniversary of the murderous attack on him for his journalism work Hamid Mir…
One Year After Attack on Hamid Mir: No Findings Yet By Judicial Commission
ISLAMABAD, April 18, 2015: Freedom Network marks the first anniversary of the murderous attack on prominent journalist Hamid Mir with serious concern that findings of…
Balochistan Sets Up Tribunals To Investigate Journalists’ Murders
Balochistan government has constituted two different judicial tribunals to investigate six murder cases of journalists killed in the province since 2011. A statement from the…
E-Bulletin For March 2015
March 2015 March 09: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) upheld the conviction of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of publisher of Daily Times, Salman Taseer, under…