FN Threat Data Analysis – August 2018 Thirteen cases of murder, attack, arrest, harassment, verbal threats, censorship, legal casea, attack on home and robbery against…
July 2018 July 01: Neo TV reporter Zhakir Abbasi received minor injuries after workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf attacked journalists covering Workers’ Convention of the party…
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2018 Seven cases of abduction, arrest, physical attack, verbal threats and break-in against journalists were documented during June 2018…
February 2018 Feb 04: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s chairman Imran Khan threatens journalist upon asking question https://www.dawn.com/news/1387163/imrans-threatening-one-liner-startles-journalists Feb 05: Journalist Ghulam Akbar survives attack on his life…
January 2018 Jan 04: Federal Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Maryam Aurangzeb informs Senate Sub-Committee on Information and Broadcasting that her government decided…
November 2017 Nov 01: Dalbandin press club in Balochistan was shut down after threats from Balochistan Liberation Front demanding media should report their activities as…
July 2017 July 03: The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom Division informed the Senate Committee on Delegated Legislation that intercepting telephone calls is lawful…
March 2017 Report by Freedom Network Media Analysis March 2017: murder, assault and legal cases In March 2017, a total of 11 cases…
Jan 2017 Jan 04: Bloggers Waqas Goraya and Asim Saeed went missing from Lahore. Jan 06: Salman Haider, a professor at Fatima Jinnah University in…
December 2016 Dec 02: Muhammad Usman, correspondent of Waqt TV channel and Jehan-e-Pakistan newspaper in Dera Ismail Khan, was detained for hours after military officials…
November 2016 Nov 01: Infuriated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers attack Geo News channel’s satellite van near Swabi during the Imran Khan’s party march towards Islamabad http://www.dawn.com/news/1293594/infuriated-pti-workers-attack-geo-news-van-in-swabi…
October 2016 Oct 4: PEMRA says it will cancel licences of TV channels if Indian content is aired as relations between Pakistan and India are…
September 2016 Sept 01: ARY News channel’s local reporter in Gwardar port city of Balochistan was stopped from covering the function where Prime Minister Nawaz…
August 2016 August 01: Law enforcement agencies carried out search operation at residence of Baluchistan Union of Journalists president Hamdullah Rind in Quetta city. Aug…
The journalists of six mainstream independent current affairs televisions channels in Pakistan, the office of one of the channels and the Karachi Press Club, came…
July 2016 July 04: Supreme Court asks PEMRA to take punitive action against private TV channels. http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/2016/07/160704_supreme_court_pemra_inam_ghar_ban_sh July 05: This day military takeover by Gen…
June 2016 June 01: PEMRA approves to start Direct-to-Home licensing process. http://www.radio.gov.pk/01-Jun-2016/pemra-approves-to-start-direct-to-home-service-licensing-process#.V07yKqJAUvs.twitter June 11: Baloch journalist Manzoor Ahmed is freed from captivity after he went…
May 2016 May 01: Senior journalist Shoaibul Hassan, who was picked up from his residence in Karachi by plainclothed and police uniform personnel on May…
April 2016 April 8: Report of Judicial Commission investigating attack on TV journalist Hamid Mir is leaked giving ISI a ‘clean chit.’ April 9: Plainclothed…
March 2016 March 04: Unidentified mob ransack Hyderabad Press Club. March 4: Supporters of Mumtaz Qadri attack office of Aaj TV in Karachi for lack…