A round-up of threats against media and attacks against journalists in Pakistan in 2014 By Iqbal Khattak Media in Pakistan continued to operate…
There is a general sense in Pakistan’s two smaller provinces – Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – and the border regions with Afghanistan that the mainstream…
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…
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…
How big the problem of digital surveillance is in Pakistan? Fairly alarming if the views expressed by citizens and experts during the first National Conference…
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…
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…
When speaking of journalism, one can always find the most lucrative of definitions and imagine a field that is dynamic and purposeful with a degree…
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…
June 2014 June 02: A vehicle of the Jang Group of Newspapers was torched by unidentified miscreants in the Aziz Bhatti Police limits…
Freedom Network [FN] is deeply concerned at the spate of attacks on journalists working for Jang and The News and Geo News channel with the…
Monthly E-Bulletin For April 2014 April 3: Senate standing Committee on Information asks government to set up hotline for journalists with threats to lives…
Media Fight Against Impunity Picks Pace in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, May 2, 2014: Murders of journalists, assassination attempts against senior journalists, fatwas against media, the…
Over 100 journalists and media workers, according to Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, have been killed in Pakistan in the new millennium at an average…
Monthly E-Bulletin For March March 01: An anti-terrorism court in Sindh convicts six killers of Geo News report Wali Khan Babar. March 5:…
Over 100 journalists and media workers, according to Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, have been killed in Pakistan in the new millennium at an average…
Pakistan Media Mapping – February 2014 Feb 04: Two-member ministerial committee constituted by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a day after killing of three media…
The family, friends, colleagues and well-wishers gather every February 18 to observe death anniversary of Musa Khankhel, reporter of Geo News TV channel, who was…