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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 – Razia Bhatti tried to keep the flag of independent and fearless journalism flying at a time of oppression, said I.A. Rehman, veteran journalist, and former Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). Rehman spoke at the first Razia Bhatti Memorial Lecture at the Center for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) here on…
International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) Executive Director Annie Game has urged Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to respond to UNESCO Director-General’s 2017 request that has sought information on the status of judicial inquiries into the killings of 55 journalists in Pakistan from 2006 to 2016. In a letter, Game also asked the Prime Minister…
ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa and his wife Ms Sarina Isa on Thursday paid a visit to express solidarity with journalist Asad Ali Toor, who was recently injured after unidentified suspects broke into his apartment and beat him up. Justice Isa and his wife visited Mr Toor with a bouquet and painkillers to inquire about…
ISLAMABAD — A group of about 100 people gathered outside the offices of Dawn on Monday, blocking the gates for almost three hours. An elderly bearded man, speaking to the crowd through a megaphone, said that Pakistan had now almost eliminated terrorism, yet this newspaper wanted to push the country back into the same tunnel…
The first news of coronavirus made its way into the Pakistani media in the last week of January 2020, when four Pakistani students, studying in Wuhan, posted a video. The video, filmed by the students, showed a city in lock-down with the students begging to be evacuated. The video was shared on social media but…