WASHINGTON D.C.—The Taliban must immediately cease harassing and attacking journalists for their work, allow women journalists to broadcast the news, and permit the media to operate freely and independently, the…
Jammu and Kashmir police chased a group of journalists and attacked them with batons while they were covering the Muharram procession in Srinagar on August 17. The International Federation of Journalists (IF)…
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has appreciated Pakistan’s role in safe evacuation of foreign media correspondents from Afghanistan, Radio Pakistan reported. The Committee’s Asia Program Coordinator, Steven Butler, during a telephonic…
KARACHI: A joint committee of media organizations in the country has unanimously rejected the government’s attempt to establish the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA). The committee comprises the Council of…
ISLAMABAD— All major bodies representing the media have rightly rejected the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority and termed the intended law behind it a draconian one, Dawn acknowledged in an…
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry confirmed that the PTI government is soon going to set up an umbrella regulatory body – the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) –…
