Pakistan Coalition on Media Safety

Month: October 2017

Pakistan’s Publishers body condemns cancellation of publishing licenses of two newspapers the capital city

The administration of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city, cancelled the publication licenses or ‘declarations’ of Urdu the dailies “Sahafat” and “Dopahr” on October 20, 2017. Khushnood Ali Khan, editor in chief of both newspapers, said the order was given when he submitted a request to upgrade his printing press and to change the printers.  When he […]

Pakistan: Investigative Journalist Injured in Attack

On October 27, 2017, Ahmad Noorani, an investigative journalist of the English-language daily “The News International” was assaulted by unidentified men in broad daylight at the busy intersection of Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. Noorani’s car was intercepted by six assailants riding on three motorbikes.  They severely beat up Noorani and his driver with […]

CPNE delegation meets Zehri

QUETTA: The government would make no compromise with elements challenging the writ of the state and continue to hunt them down, the Balochistan chief minister said on Monday. He was speaking to a delegation of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), headed by its president Zia Shahid. Sanaullah Zehri said the government was fighting […]

Internet censorship

DISTURBING though it may be, it is hardly surprising that internet access in Pakistan is being selectively filtered — ‘censored’ is perhaps the more accurate word here. A research report released last week regarding random tests that involved 22 internet service providers in the country bore witness to the fact that at least 210 URLs […]