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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 of expression, Freedom Network [FN] said in a statement on November 27, 2014.   The anti-terrorism court sentenced in absentia Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, owner of ... Read More »

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 Karachi within days of its launch.   “The move is direct attack on freedom of expression in the country,” FN, Pakistan’s first media watchdog organization ... Read More »

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 Karachi within days of its launch.   “The move is direct attack on freedom of expression in the country,” FN, Pakistan’s first media watchdog organization ... Read More »

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 go. Albeit in terrible shape, she survived. The kidnapping was caught on tape and aired repeatedly by all current affairs TV channels for days. Much ... Read More »

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 Coalition on Media Safety (PCOMS) in Quetta on November 15, 2014.     People have a right to freedom of expression and this right needs ... Read More »

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 on Privacy Rights is anything to go by.   As the first event of its kind expanding the post-Snowden digital security debate to Pakistan, participants ... Read More »

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 November 2014.   “We don’t know who may have taken him away,” Imam Bukhsh Bugti, uncle of missing journalist Manzoor Ahmed Bugti, 24, who works ... Read More »

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 as reporter for Daily Dunya newspaper in Hafizabad (Punjab) was gunned down.   Oct 5: Yaqoob Shehzad, working as reporter for Daily Express and Express ... Read More »

Freedom Network is pleased to announce that Aurangzaib Khan, with over 20 years of journalism background and media  development expertise, joins Freedom Network as managing director from 5 November 2014.     Profile   Aurangzaib Khan is a renowned media activist and development practitioner with a background in journalism over ... Read More »

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 the country, was abducted in broad daylight from the heart of federal capital Islamabad on May 29, 2011. His abduction and subsequent brutal murder left ... Read More »