PTI Activists Manhandle Senior Journalist, Female Reporters
Freedom Network, Pakistan [FN] joins media defenders in the condemnation of manhandling of one of the country’s most senior journalists, Mazhar Abbas, in Karachi on…
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Freedom Network, Pakistan [FN] joins media defenders in the condemnation of manhandling of one of the country’s most senior journalists, Mazhar Abbas, in Karachi on…
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…
The sentence announced by an anti-terrorism court in northern Pakistan against one of the country’s television channels on blasphemy charges will not augur well for…
Freedom Network [FN] expressed concern at reports that renowned entrepreneur Sadruddin Hashwani’s recently published book ‘Truth Always Prevails,’ has disappeared from leading book outlets in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Syed Saleem Shahzad, a prominent Pakistani investigative journalist renowned for his incisive reporting of war and militancy and author of a book on militancy in…
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 murder of two journalists within days of each other in Punjab province of Pakistan, a region not known for similar high levels of violence…
Sept 01: Supporters of Pakistan Awami Tehreek and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf storm public sector Pakistan Television HQ in Islamabad. Sept 06: Afghan journalist Habibur Rehman…
The past few weeks have been disturbing for press freedom, and freedom of expression in Pakistan as it takes even a harder hit from politicians…
An Afghan journalist working for Voice of Germany (VoG) Pashto Service in Quetta, provincial capital of southwestern Balochistan province, has been forced to leave Pakistan…
Aug 04: TTP writes letter to CPJ, RSF enveloping threats to Pakistani media over reporting of military operation in North Waziristan. Aug 05: Journalists…