E-Bulletin For May 2016
May 2016 May 01: Senior journalist Shoaibul Hassan, who was picked up from his residence in Karachi by plainclothed and police uniform personnel on May…
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E-Bulletin For April 2016
April 2016 April 8: Report of Judicial Commission investigating attack on TV journalist Hamid Mir is leaked giving ISI a ‘clean chit.’ April 9: Plainclothed…
E-Bulletin For March 2016
March 2016 March 04: Unidentified mob ransack Hyderabad Press Club. March 4: Supporters of Mumtaz Qadri attack office of Aaj TV in Karachi for lack…
E-Bulletin For February 2016
February 2016 Feb 02: Several journalists were wounded during clashes between police, rangers and PIA employees in Karachi. Feb 07: Three shots were fired outside…
E-Bulletin For January 2016
January 2016 Jan 03: Senate says it will not allow PECB passed without stakeholders’ agreement http://epaper.tribune.com.pk/DisplayDetails.aspx?ENI_ID=11201601030026&EN_ID=11201601030016&EMID=11201601030003 Jan 05: Karachi police say they arrested two persons…
E-Bulletin For December 2015
December 2015 Dec 01: Three, including two policemen and an employee, injured in hand-grenade attack on DIN News channel’s office in Lahore and Islamic State…
E-Bulletin For November 2015
November 2015 Nov 2: Private guards attacks journalists in Karachi covering the protest of university students. The Sindh government orders inquiry. Nov 2: PEMRA asks…
E-Bulletin For October 2015
October 2015 Oct 01: Newsweek Pakistan says hackers disrupt its website. http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINKCN0RV4KK20151001?irpc=932 Oct 07. The Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Mumtaz Qadri, who had…
E-Bulletin For September 2015
September 2015 Sept 01: Balochistan government claims to have arrested two killers of journalists Irshad Mastoi, Abdur Rasool and media assistant Muhammad Younas. http://www.dawn.com/news/1204232/two-killers-of-journalists-arrested-in-quetta Sept…
E-Bulletin For August 2015
August 2015 Aug 03: Man denied bail in Facebook hacking case in Peshawar. http://epaper.dawn.com/DetailNews.php?StoryText=04_08_2015_182_009 Aug 11: Joint Action Committee of media rights groups, telecom industry,…
E-Bulletin For July 2015
July 2015 July 01: AJK government lifts ban Geo News channel in the region. http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-326712-Ban-on-Geo-in-AJK-lifted July 07: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa increases annual…
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…
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…
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…
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…
E-Bulletin For February 2015
February 2015 Feb 08: Altaf Hussain throws a veiled threat at TV anchors amidst controversy over Baldia factory fire. http://epaper.dawn.com/DetailNews.php?StoryText=09_02_2015_003_004 Feb 10: Online newspaper BalochHal…
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:…
E-Bulletin For December 2014
December 2014 Dec 01: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists observe countrywide protest against attacks on DunyaNews, DawnNews and Abbtak TV channels’ DSNG vans in…
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…
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…