Freedom Network [FN] is deeply concerned at the spate of attacks on journalists working for Jang and The News and Geo News channel with the latest victim being the resident editor of daily Jang in Multan, Zafar Aheer, on May 31, 2014. “These attacks are well organized and ... Read More »
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority (PEMRA) late on Wednesday (April 23, 2014) served a show-cause notice on the administration of Geo News for allegedly bringing the country’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence into disrepute and harming national interest. The regulatory authority’s show-cause notice read that why Geo News’s licence could ... Read More »
Freedom Network [FN] welcomes the March 19, 2014 announcement of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to set up a commission for safety and security of journalists in Pakistan, a demand both national and international media watchdog organizations have been making to fight back the deep-rooted impunity of crimes against media in ... Read More »
Freedom Network [FN] apprehends that the spate of violence directed at media in Pakistan over recent years may increase with escalation in hostilities between the government forces and Taliban militant groups and urges all stakeholders to ensure that the freedom of the press is not a casualty of the ongoing ... Read More »
The two-member ministerial committee of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has met media houses’ representatives, working journalists and media development and safety expert to thrash out a comprehensive plan for safety and security of media organizations, media-practioners, representative offices of regional unions of journalists and press clubs across the country. ... Read More »
KARACHI: Freedom Network [FN] demanded investigation to know motives of death of TV journalist Shan Dahar, 40, working for new private TV channel Abb Takk as correspondent from Larkana district of Sindh province, who was dead in wee hours of Wednesday (January 1, 2014) at hospital in Larkana district in ... Read More »
TV Journalist Farhan Ahmed Bangash has walked into free world after a high court judge in Peshawar ordered January 1 his release from prison on bail following Kohat police charging him with terrorism. “I am released on bail on January 4,” Farhan told Freedom Network [FN] by phone ... Read More »
Ayub Khattak, a journalist in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern Karak district, was shot dead outside his home on Friday (11 October 2013) days after he filed story on sale of drugs and local gang of drug-peddlers, his colleagues told Freedom Network on Saturday (12 October 2013). He is the seventh ... Read More »
Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rasheed has announced that a special meeting of key media stakeholders will be convened with Baluchistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baluch to discuss security threats to media in the violence-hit province where four journalists have died in different circumstances in 2013 ... Read More »
Leading media stakeholders in Pakistan are gathering next week in capital city Islamabad to join hands for the challenging task of combating impunity of crimes against media. With close to a hundred journalists killed since 2001, not a single case has been investigated and the killers brought to justice except ... Read More »
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