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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 »

Sept 01: Supporters of Pakistan Awami Tehreek and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf storm public sector Pakistan Television HQ in Islamabad.   Sept 06: Afghan journalist Habibur Rehman Taseer working for VoG Pashto service in Quetta forced to leave Pakistan after threatening calls.   Sept 12: Jang bureau in Peshawar receives threatening letter ... Read More »

Aug 04: TTP writes letter to CPJ, RSF enveloping threats to Pakistani media over reporting of military operation in North Waziristan.   Aug 05: Journalists close press club in Khuzdar district in Balochistan after threats.   Aug 09: Dawn newspaper sets up readers’ editor office to promote ethical journalism.   ... Read More »

July 01: Court issues arrest warrant of ARY News channel’s chief executive Salman Iqbal and anchor Mubashar Lucman for not appearing before the court. http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2014/07/140701_pak_issue_warrant_ary_ceo_anchor_mb.shtml   July 2:TV journalist Jamshed Baghwan’s residence bombed third time since March 2014.https://freedomnetwork.org.pk/baghwan-home-is-bombed-third-time-since-march-2014/   July 7: Sindh High Court ‘fines’ TV channels for ‘excessive’ advertising. ... Read More »

June 2014     June 02: A vehicle of the Jang Group of Newspapers was torched by unidentified miscreants in the Aziz Bhatti Police limits in the wee hours of Monday in Karachi. http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-30707-Another-Jang-Group-vehicle-torched-in-Karachi     June 03: Wife of Justice Jawad S. Khawaja of the Supreme Court files complaint ... Read More »

Monthly E-Bulletin For May 2014   May 2: Injured #HamidMir records statement before judicial commission probing attack April 19 attack on Geo News anchor. http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-146439-Injured-Hamid-Mir-shows-up-after-shooting-incident     May 2: Reporter Farhan Bangash, working with Royal TV, is attacked in Kohat city. He lost two teeth and injuries to arm. Police arrested ... Read More »

Monthly E-Bulletin For April 2014   April 3: Senate standing Committee on Information asks government to set up hotline for journalists with threats to lives and come up with ‘uniform compensation’ policy.   April 5: TTP launches website – www.umarmedia.com – as its spokesman Shahidullah Shahid asks media that no ... Read More »

Monthly E-Bulletin For March   March 01: An anti-terrorism court in Sindh convicts six killers of Geo News report Wali Khan Babar.   March 5: Two suspects in Express News channel attack were police encounter: Karachi police chief Javed Odho tells Express Tribune.   March 6: Sindh High Court asks ... Read More »