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Journalists vow never to be cowed down

LAHORE: “The kinds of threats journalists face today cannot be fought by individuals…we have to fight them together. And yet, when there is an attack on one media house, other media houses remain silent. It is not only the government’s responsibility to provide security to journalists, the media must unite on this front as well,” columnist Ejaz Haider said on

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East or West, journalists are ‘traitors’

TONSBERG (Norway): While Taliban accuse Pakistani journalists of siding with ‘disbelievers’ against Muslims, Norwegian Christian fundamentalist, Anders Behring Breivik, thought the European journalists are soft on Muslim immigrants, blames them, among others, for ‘Islamic colonisation’ of Europe and declares them ‘category B traitors.’ Anders who killed 77 people in July 2011 through bombing in Oslo and firing at an island,

Media bodies condemn death threats to journalist

Journalists and representatives of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) and South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ), Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ), Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ), the National Press Club,

DIG summoned over torture of journalist

ISLAMABAD: The Special Court hearing treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf Friday summoned Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Jan Muhammad for torturing a journalist on the court premises. According to details, policemen tortured the journalist of a private TV channel, reportedly on the orders of the DIG.On this, journalists boycotted the court proceedings of the day and informed

Putting Press Freedom at the Heart of Anti-Poverty Efforts

Umar Cheema, a Pakistani journalist, wrote often about the military. Then one night masked men hauled him from his car and during six hours of torture, sexual humiliation, and threats, they made it clear that the reporting should stop. Cheema not only refused to stop writing, he went public with his ordeal. “I wanted to send a message that I

Rangers take away journalist’s licensed gun

Rangers take away journalist’s licensed gunKarachi: A journalist associated with the Jang newspaper was manhandled by Rangers during a raid in Sultanabad and had his licensed gun taken away on Tuesday. The paramilitary force had raided the area in the morning as part of the ongoing operations in Karachi.

Daniel Pearl’s killers keep their fingers crossed

ISLAMABAD: Twelve years after the gruesome murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, his four convicted killers, who were found guilty of kidnapping and beheading him in Karachi in January 2002, are keeping their fingers crossed to get their sentences reversed when the Sindh High Court finally decides their appeals against convictions. The 38-year-old reporter of the Wall Street Journal had

Daniel Pearl’s murder: 12 years on, appellate court moves only an inch ahead

KARACHI: As the 12th death anniversary of American journalist Daniel Pearl draws near, the anti-terrorism appellate court moved only an inch ahead with the four convicts’ appeals against death and life imprisonment and confirmation of the sentences by the high court. Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani decent, was awarded death sentence while the co-accused – Salman

Impunity poses a major threat to freedom of press in Pakistan

KARACHI: Chairman of Pakistan Press International and Secretary General of the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), Owais Aslam Ali said that the perpetrators of violence against journalists and media workers enjoy almost absolute impunity in Pakistan, which is seriously hampering press freedom in the country. This he said while answering to various questions asked by Ifex in connection with its International