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BRUSSELS: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Pakistan affiliate, Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have said that the government must heed the calls of media and open a transparent and industry-engaged process of review of the Existing regulatory framework before hitting the media with the brute force of a single regulatory government-created…
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: The climate for press freedom in Pakistan has been deteriorating, even as overall violence against and murder of journalists decline, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Wednesday. In a special report compiled after recording testimonies of journalists in various cities of the country, the CPJ said that journalists, including freelancers, had “painted…
Uchsharif: The Rural Media Network Pakistan (RMNP) demanded the federal government to amend the draft bill on safety of journalists before legislation as it contained serious flaws. The RMNP demanded this in a unanimous resolution passed during the concluding ceremony of two-day workshop titled ‘Safety of Journalists Training Workshop’ here the other day. The workshop…
PESHAWAR: Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Information and Higher Education, Kamran Bangash on Monday said promoting independent journalism and providing security to the journalists’ community was among the topmost priorities of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government. In his message on World Journalism Day, Kamran Bangash said the provincial government was introducing quota system in…
ISLAMABAD—Editor of Dawn newspaper, Zaffar Abbas has promised to look into complaints of current and former employees about the unhealthy work environment at Dawn.com, saying any mistake or wrong by the institution would be addressed. He was talking with BBC Urdu after some employees of Dawn.com aired their views online regarding “toxic environment” at Dawn…
ISLAMABAD—Prominent international news websites, including CNN, BBC, the Financial Times, the Guardian, New York Times, Bloomberg and others, were hit by global outages due to technical issues on Tuesday. Messages such as “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure” appeared on the websites of CNN, the Financial Times and The Guardian. Reportedly, the official website…