Safer Environment For Journalists And Journalism: Roadmap For Media Safety In Pakistan
Key findings of the state of media safety in Pakistan in 2014 through a mapping of the UN Journalist Safety Indicators and recommendations for collaborative…
Category Archives: Pakistan
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Crisis of credibility: Blatant Disregard For Ethics Makes Professionalism Prime Casualty of Pakistani media
A round-up of trends and impact of the plummeting ethical standards of media in 2014 By Haroon Rashid When it comes to ethics, Pakistani…
A Round-Up Of Trends In Digital & Social Media Realm For Pakistan In 2014
By Nighat Daad Pakistan, like many other countries in Global South, has seen an increase in the use of internet usage over the past…
TV Anchor, CEO Indicted In ‘Contempt Of Court’ Case
The Supreme Court indicted 5 January 2015 ARY News anchorperson Mubashar Lucman and channel’s CEO Salman Iqbal in a ‘contempt of court case’ relating to…
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…
‘Violation Of Digital Privacy Ends Up Hurting All Rights’
Ben Wagner, an internationally renowned expert on digital and privacy rights and surveillance issues, sat down with Freedom Network in Islamabad, Pakistan, in the fall…
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…
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…
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…
Court Hands Geo Entertainment Channel Owner & Host 26 Years Prison Sentence
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…
Book ‘Truth Always Prevails’ Disappears From Book Stores In Karachi
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…
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…
Balochistan Govt To Work With Journalists On Reducing Risks To Their Lives
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…
State Intruding Into Citizen Privacy In 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…
Baloch Journalist Goes Missing In Quetta City Since Nov 7
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…
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…
Impunity Has Denied Us Justice, Says Family Of Saleem Shahzad
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…
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 …
Not Easy Being A Journalist In Pakistan: Asma Shirazi
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…