Bara Press Club Reopens After Militancy Shut It Down Five Years Back
Ibrahim Shinwari The construction of Bara Press Club was completed in early 2009 only when it was shut down in September the same year after…
Category Archives: FATA
FN Slams Ban On Journalism In Orakzai Tribal Region
PESHAWAR, 20 March 2018: Journalists are barred from visiting or reporting Orakzai tribal district for last five months and local tribal journalists’ pleas to lift…
Five Tribal Journalists Detained In Landikotal
Paramilitary force detained five tribal journalists and a press club employee after a magnetic bomb was discovered beneath the car they were riding in Landikotal…
Missing Tribal Journalists Return Home
Update – October 17, 2017 The two missing tribal journalists – Shah Nawaz Tarakzai and Islam Gul Afridi – returned home on October 16, 2017, after abduction on…
Tribal Areas: “Security Concerns Creating Difficulties In Reporting”
Khyal Mat Shah Afridi Due to security concerns in areas of FATA and the Khyber Agency, tribal area journalists face difficulties in carrying out their…
Hafiz Wazir – Tribal Journalist From South Waziristan
By Iqbal Khattak I met tribal journalist Hafiz Wazir for the first time in October 2003 in Wana, summer headquarters of South Waziristan, the hotbed…
Demand For RTI Extension To FATA
Hanif Ullah Anwar Ullah Khan from Bajaur agency is an old hand at journalism. He has the experience of working for both national and international…
Mohmand Tribal District Authorities Serve Notice On Press Club
Authorities in Pakistan’s Mohmand tribal district along the border with Afghanistan served Thursday (February 26, 2015) a notice on president of Ghalanai Press Club seeking explanation why…
Pakistan’s Failing Battle To Combat Impunity Against Journalists And Growing Hostile Working Conditions For Practitioners
A round-up of threats against media and attacks against journalists in Pakistan in 2014 By Iqbal Khattak Media in Pakistan continued to operate…
Smaller Provinces’ Complaint Against Mainstream Media
There is a general sense in Pakistan’s two smaller provinces – Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – and the border regions with Afghanistan that the mainstream…
FM Radio Stations’ Impact On Tribal Areas
Fazal Rehman Mehsud still sometimes reminiscences about what he calls his good old days when he was working as a producer at a local radio…
Skewed Reporting Of Rape By Pakistani Media
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…
Open Letter to PM Nawaz to End Impunity against Journalists
His Excellency, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister, Islamic Republic of Pakistan Subject: Urgent government action to combat impunity against journalists in Pakistan …
Alarm At Pike In Killing Of Journalists In Pakistan
The murder of two journalists within days of each other in Punjab province of Pakistan, a region not known for similar high levels of violence…
Police & Protestors Target Media With Violence Leaving Many Crew Members Injured
Updated on 01 September 2014 The ongoing clashes between police and anti-government protesters in the capital Islamabad is a cause of concern for civil…
No Military Victories Without Media Support
The Pakistani state has launched its most serious attempt yet to retake North Waziristan Agency (NWA) of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and clear…
Reporting From Hell
Media in Pakistan entered 2014 under the old threat to journalists’ lives. Caught in bloody crossfire between blind state power and extremist terror, journalism has…
A TV Journalist Dies Of Bullet Wounds In Sindh
KARACHI: Freedom Network [FN] demanded investigation to know motives of death of TV journalist Shan Dahar, 40, working for new private TV channel Abb Takk…
Final Call For The Media
An attack on Express Media Group’s Karachi office on December 2, 2013, is a direct assault on “Freedom of the Press.” It is not simply…
The Third Front: Challenges for Baluchistan Media
There aren’t any obvious parallels in the cases of FATA journalist Hayatullah’s murder and the Baluchistan authorities’ action against ARY TV. On the surface, both…