Divisions in Journalist Fraternity
Adnan Aamir Sibi Press Club was conducting its annual elections in January 2021. While the elections were taking place inside the premises of the club,…
Adnan Aamir Sibi Press Club was conducting its annual elections in January 2021. While the elections were taking place inside the premises of the club,…
Adnan Aamir Since the start of the latest low-intensity insurgency in 2005, Balochistan has become an information black hole. It has become increasingly difficult for…
Media rights organization Freedom Network condemned the federal and provincial authorities for arresting, threatening, intimidating and harassing journalist doing critical stories on COVID19 in the…
ISLAMABAD, 08 May 2020: Freedom Network is deeply concerned at media reports that missing Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain’s dead body was found in a river…
Hameedullah Sherani Currently in Balochistan, the journalists are facing extremely difficult situations. There is no journalism. Journalist community is enjoying no freedom of speech. In…
Adnan Amir Balochistan has been one of the most turbulent regions of Pakistan in the last decade. The violence also took its toll on journalism…
November 2: International Day to End Impunity of Crimes against Journalists The Worsening State of Impunity against Media in Balochistan: Special Report by Freedom Network…
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…
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…
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…
A round-up of threats against media and attacks against journalists in Pakistan in 2014 By Iqbal Khattak Media in Pakistan continued to operate…
By Nighat Daad Pakistan, like many other countries in Global South, has seen an increase in the use of internet usage over the past…
December 2014 Dec 01: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists observe countrywide protest against attacks on DunyaNews, DawnNews and Abbtak TV channels’ DSNG vans in…
There is a general sense in Pakistan’s two smaller provinces – Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – and the border regions with Afghanistan that the mainstream…
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…
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…
The following are remarks made by the Balochistan information minister, Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal, at a public dialogue on media safety at a meeting of Pakistan…
A Baloch journalist is reported missing from Balochistan’s Quetta capital city since 7 November 2014 (Friday), his family confirms to Freedom Network [FN] on 11…
His Excellency, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister, Islamic Republic of Pakistan Subject: Urgent government action to combat impunity against journalists in Pakistan …
Winner of prestigious Peter Mackler Journalism Courage Award for 2014, TV journalist Asma Shirazi speaks exclusively to Freedom Network about the crisis of credibility engulfing…