Media in former FATA region needs support
By Ibrahim Shinwari With the newly merged seven tribal districts still in transition after the passage of 25th Constitutional Amendment in May 2018, the local…
By Ibrahim Shinwari With the newly merged seven tribal districts still in transition after the passage of 25th Constitutional Amendment in May 2018, the local…
FN Threat Data Analysis – July 2019 Five cases of attacks, injuries to two journalists, a legal case against a journalist and offline and online…
ISLAMABAD, August 8, 2019: A new initiative has been launched to facilitate establishment of a collaborative national safety mechanism to combat impunity of crimes against…
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2019 A journalist and a blogger were killed while 15 other information practioners faced, arrest, attacks and verbal threats…
FN Threat Data Analysis – April 2019 One journalist in a remote town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was killed while twelve other cases of abduction,…
Iqbal Khattak Main theme for this year’s edition of World Press Freedom Day, falling on 3 May, is relationship between the press and democracy. The…
Gharidah Farooqi Social media has changed life. It has changed the world – for better or worse. Today is the age of social media. World,…
ISLAMABAD: Female TV journalist Gharidah Farooqi is harassed, intimidated and threatened for her online opinion and “facts” she believes a journalist should be reporting. “Open…
Police in Lahore city used violence to bar journalists from covering production of a journalist to a lower court on February 23 snatching cameras and…
Arif Nizami is a senior Pakistani journalist and editor. Here he talks exclusively to FN on the latest developments in the media landscape, especially PTI…
Several armed men in plainclothes late Thursday night – 08 November 2018 – raided Karachi Press Club harassing journalists and forcibly taking photos and examining…
Hours after his story on arrest of alleged drug dealer was published in K2 Times newspaper in Haripur district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, young…
September 2018 Sep 06: A group of journalists from Charsadda Press Club visited the office of Deputy Commissioner Mian Abdul Qadir Shah to inquire about…
Young journalist Abid Hussain in Dewan Sahib town in Borewala tehsil of Vehari district in Punjab province succumbed to injuries a day after he was…
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…
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…
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…
ADNAN REHMAT This book has been produced by Freedom Network, a Pakistani civil liberties group working on freedom of expression and access to information issues….
Hameedullah Sherani Journalists in Balochistan are facing multiple threats – be it in Baloch or Pashtoon areas. Freedom of expression has become scarce and threats…
FN Threat Data Analysis – February 2018 Fifteen cases of attempt to assassinate, abduction, harassment, attacks, verbal and written threats against journalists and censorship of…