Media unions and advocates calls for urgent end to Kashmir blockade
A group of 37 national media unions from South Asia as well as global media advocacy and freedom of expression organisations today called for an end to the ongoing communications…
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Media in Pakistan unprepared to cover coronavirus outbreak
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…
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Former APP journalist contracts coronavirus
ISLAMABAD—Zafar Rashid Bhatti, a former chief reporter of Associated Press of Pakistan and an ex-president of its employees’ union, has contracted coronavirus. According to Afzal Butt, a senior journalist and…
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Issues critical to people’s lives get little space in news media: study
ISLAMABAD—Mainstream print and electronic news media in Pakistan seldom give comprehensive coverage to the matters vital to the people’s lives, such as health, education, climate change, and gender unless there…
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CPNE hails government’s new method of advertisements’ payment
The Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) has welcomed the notification of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for introducing new payment procedure of the govt advertisements to newspapers, periodicals and…
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IFJ campaign highlights Kashmir’s ongoing internet controls
As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic under widespread lockdowns and the mass movement of work into an online space, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Soliarity…