Freedom of Expression Archives - Page 245 of 263 - Pakistan Freedom of Expression Monitor

Govt to provide safe, secure working environment to journalists: Pervaiz

March 20, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Pervaiz Rashid said on Wednesday the government was committed to the freedom of expression and was taking steps to ensure that the media persons could perform duty in a safe and secure environment. Addressing a meeting of Steering Committee of Pakistan Coalition on Media Safety (PCOMS) here as chief guest, the Minister

PM announces commission for safety and security of journalists

March 19, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced on Wednesday the setting up of a media commission for safety and security of journalists in Pakistan. “This commission will propose measures to be adopted by the government to protect journalists in the field and to ensure their well being,” an official statement quoting the PM as saying during his meeting with head of

Pakistan Impunity Watch Website launched: Coordinated efforts necessary to deal with threats to media

March 12, 2014

KARACHI: Coordinated efforts are necessary to deal with threats to Pakistani media and Committee for Protection of Journalists (CPJ) is consulting with all stakeholders including the government to ensure better steps for protection of journalists and freedom of expression, said Elisabeth Winchell, CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant here Wednesday. She was speaking at a ‘roundtable discussion on threats to Pakistani media

CPNE-CPJ discuss security issues of journalists

March 12, 2014

Karachi: Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) had Tuesday organised a meeting with a delegation of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a United States-based organisation voicing over atrocities done to the working journalists around the world. The CPJ delegation had comprised CPJ Coordinator Proghramme for Asia Bob Dietz and CPJ Senior Consultant Elisabeth Winchell. The CPNE was represented by Jabbar

Wali Babar’s murder trial

March 11, 2014

Following the delaying tactics of the organised criminal gang behind the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar and the killing of six eye witnesses, one prosecutor and, the case has finally concluded, setting an example of being a case where the killers have been prosecuted and brought to justice. Two main killers, still at large, have been awarded death sentence

No foolproof way to block banned video, says PTA chief

March 11, 2014

ISLAMABAD: There is no foolproof way to block access to a video that resulted in the ban on YouTube in Pakistan, according to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Chairman Dr Ismail Shah. Dr Shah’s statement on Monday came a day before the Lahore High Court hears a petition seeking the court’s directive to the government to allow access to YouTube, blocked since

Judgment in Wali Babar case

March 10, 2014

AT last, some accountability. Some days ago, a little over three years after Wali Khan Babar was shot dead while on his way home from work at a local television channel in Karachi, six people were convicted of the young reporter’s murder. Two of them, who have never been apprehended, were sentenced to death in absentia while four others, arrested

Thrashed : PFUJ, RIUJ condemn attack on journalist

March 9, 2014

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned the thrashing and torturing of a Mirpur-based journalist, allegedly done by workers of a political party. Mehmood Mirza, the editor of an Urdu daily, was allegedly attacked and dragged out of his office in Mirpur by workers of a political party after they stormed the newspaper’s office. The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union

Daniel Pearl Case: Convict told to engage lawyer

March 7, 2014

Karachi: One of the four men convicted for murdering the American journalist, Daniel Pearl, has been asked by Sindh High Court (SHC) to engage a lawyer to pursue his appeal against life imprisonment. Earlier, dissatisfied with the trial court verdict, all the four convicts in the case has appealed against their conviction and subsequent award of sentences. The Express Tribune