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 media and the dangerous conditions of practicing journalism in Pakistan FN: Asma Shirazi, thank you for talking to Freedom Network, Pakistan’s premier media rights ... Read More »
Life after attempt on life of one of Pakistan’s top journalists The first time I went to meet ace journalist Hamid Mir in the last week of May 2014 – after the shocking assassination attempt on his life a few weeks earlier – he was lying at home ... Read More »
Life after attempt on life of one of Pakistan’s top journalists The first time I went to meet ace journalist Hamid Mir in the last week of May 2014 – after the shocking assassination attempt on his life a few weeks earlier – he was lying at home ... Read More »
Not once or twice but for three times since March this year, journalist Jamshed Baghwan has witnessed attacks at his house in Peshawar. It is unusual in Jamshed Baghwan’s case, since the attackers till today remain unidentified. Working for the Express News channel since 2007, Baghwan is clueless ... Read More »
After languishing in jail for 40 months, Mumbai-based journalist and activist Sudhir Dhawale has walked free. Dhawale was the only journalist in jail in India in late 2013, according to CPJ’s annual prison census. With his release, there are currently no other journalists behind bars in the country for work-related ... Read More »
The family, friends, colleagues and well-wishers gather every February 18 to observe death anniversary of Musa Khankhel, reporter of Geo News TV channel, who was mysteriously killed while covering the rally of cleric Maulana Sufi Muhammad on that day in 2009 in Matta tehsil of Swat valley. It has ... Read More »
Grief-stricken Reshma came to the Supreme Court in Karachi last month carrying a poster-sized photograph of his slain husband Munir Ahmed Sangi, lying in a pool of blood. She is trying to seek justice in her spouse’s murder case for the last eight years. A lower court in Larkana district in ... Read More »
It has been more than six years since a Peshawar High Court judge completed inquiry into circumstances of murder of the tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan. The court’s findings have not been made public yet. Meanwhile, his family’s long and agonizing wait to receive justice and see an end to impunity ... Read More »
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