Interview of Pakistan’s leading opposition leader taken off air
An interview of Pakistan’s leading opposition leader was taken off air soon after it was aired on Hum News on July 11, 2019. The interview Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Vice –President Maryam Nawaz was being conducted by Nadeem Malik, journalist
The Government of Pakistan has decided that media should not be allowed to give coverage to political leaders convicted or accused of
Islamabad: The government has decided to approach the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on airing of interviews of convicted persons by the electronic media. During a meeting here on Tuesday with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair, the
Islamabad: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (Afzal Butt group) has warned that the threat to the freedom of press has assumed ominous proportions. A meeting of the PFUJ’s Federal Executive Council, held from July 5 to 7 with Mr Butt
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has taken notice of a malicious campaign launched on social media against some top journalists of the country. The union’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) adopted a
THREATS to journalism in Pakistan, and by extension freedom of expression, continue to rear their head frequently in the online space. On Thursday, a Twitter campaign was launched under the hashtag #ArrestAntiPakjournalists, with over 28,000 tweets published in a matter of hours. Consequently, the hashtag trended at
Karachi: An interview of former president Asif Ali Zardari was stopped from being aired shortly after it started on a private news channel on Monday. Hamid Mir, who was the interviewer of the programme on Geo News, took to Twitter to express his outrage
Lahore: Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Arif Nawaz Khan has issued a new media policy through which certain restrictions have been imposed on media interaction. The policy has been met with outrage from stakeholders who have termed it as a
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana has expressed concern over the attack on David Ankomah, cameraman of Accra-based Joy News by the soldiers on June 23, 2019. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in