YouTube ban and the awry aftermath
The YouTube ban in Pakistan entered into its third week yesterday. Government had issued orders last month to impose a blanket ban on the video sharing website in response to … Read More
Author: PPF Editor
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is an independent media research, documentation and training centre working to promote and defend freedom of press.
Freedom of expression and reaction
By: N. Elahi Ever since the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten committed the temerity to publish caricatures of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in 2005 and defended it on the basis of the right … Read More
Attacks on cinemas
There has to be a limit to senselessness. After all, human beings have been gifted with the capacity to reason and think. But we saw this ability vanish completely on … Read More
Free speech
By: Bina Shah Is the anti-Muslim video, Innocence of Muslims, an issue of free speech or hate speech? That’s the question foremost on my mind as I think back to … Read More
Fata journalists face high security threat
ISLAMABAD: More than 50 per cent journalists from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have received threats of various kinds during last year while at least 33 per cent of … Read More
Pakistani newspaper ban in Afghanistan
By: AYAANA MALIK The Afghan government has banned Pakistani newspapers, which clearly exemplifies the sentiments of the US-backed Afghan government, while the criticism arising from within the Afghan community for … Read More
‘Misuse’ of freedom of expression
By: HUMAIRA KANWAL PEOPLE are abusing the movie’s team and advising each other over cell phones and online social networks to share those abusing remarks to register their protest. I … Read More
YouTube ban
By: Omar A Khan KARACHI: The ban on the very popular website YouTube continues in Pakistan. My question is that for how long will this remain? Surely, given the fact … Read More
Cases registered against 26 journalists
By: Bari Baloch QUETTA: Cases have been registered against 26 journalists for violating red zone area while carrying out a protest rally against target killing of journalists while the Station … Read More