A PDF version of ‘Reporting Under Threat,” Pakistan’s first ever book offering an intimate look into the harsh every-day life of journalists working in hostile conditions, is uploaded to Freedom Network’s website as hundreds of thousands of requests for the book were received. The book has been authored ... Read More »
Updated on 01 September 2014 The ongoing clashes between police and anti-government protesters in the capital Islamabad is a cause of concern for civil society including media rights organisations such as Freedom Network [FN]. A number of private news channel crews, including technical and non-technical support staff, have been ... Read More »
Freedom Network [FN] has called on leadership of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to restrain party activists and supporters from attacking media-personnel, especially those working for TV channels, who are covering the two sit-ins (dharnas) and public rallies in Islamabad and other cities. “We are extremely concerned ... Read More »
Freedom Network [FN] has expressed grave concern at security threats to journalists in Khuzdar district of Balochistan and closure of its press club and has urged the provincial government to stand by the media and bring those threatening journalists to justice. Khuzdar is the deadliest district in Balochistan and ... Read More »
Freedom Network [FN] calls the violence against the WorldCall office in Karachi as “a thinly veiled attempt to prevent the resumption of access to the transmissions of Geo News TV channel to Pakistani airwaves and to deny the media consumers their constitutionally guaranteed right to know.” “Setting the office ... Read More »
Freedom Network [FN] has appealed to the federal and provincial governments and military authorities to extend all possible assistance and help to over 30 journalists from North Waziristan who have been displaced from their homes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas by the launch of the military operation against local ... Read More »
Islamabad High Court stopped a TV anchor on June 11, 2014, from hosting a talk-show programme on ARY News channel after a petition seeking the ban was accepted for regular hearing. Anchor Mubashar Lucman hosts ‘Kara Sach’ and he was leading anti-Geo campaign since the attack on journalist ... Read More »
Hameed Haroon, the President of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), has expressed concern that the freedom of press envisioned in Article 19 of the Constitution of Pakistan is now facing the gravest threat it has encountered in the past decade, and if press freedoms are allowed to deteriorate further, ... Read More »
Adnan Rehmat ABRAR Tanoli. Ayub Khattak. Shan Dahar. Bakhtaj Ali. Razik Baloch. Almost no-one knows who these persons are, not even a very big chunk of Pakistan’s 18,000-strong community of working journalists. They were all working journalists who were killed in targeted attacks in the last 12 months. Three ... Read More »
Pakistan’s first ever book offering an intimate look into the harsh every-day life of journalists working in hostile conditions has been launched. The book, “Reporting Under Threat,” is authored by renowned media analyst and media development expert Adnan Rehmat, and includes testimonies of courage in the face of impunity ... Read More »
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