Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon has expressed concern over the one-year ban on local broadcasts of France 2, and on shutting down Gabonese tri-weekly newspaper Echos du Nord for a month. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali has condemned these steps by the country’s media regulator, […]
KARACHI:A local court remanded on Saturday a detained suspect in police custody in a case pertaining to murder of an eyewitness in the journalist Wali Babar murder case. The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) officials claimed to have arrested Faisal alias Shah Faisal during a raid in Pak Colony on Friday and recovered an illegal weapon […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of Uganda has expressed concern over the assault and detention of photojournalist James Akena for covering demonstrations in Uganda on August 20. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali has condemned this attack and called on the Ugandan authorities and military to respect press […]
The Minister of Railways and leader of Awami Muslim League (AML) Shaikh Rasheed was accused of destroying the cellphone of a cameraman in the afternoon of August 22. Aqib, a cameraman of Channel 24 along with a reporter, was present at Lal Haveli residence of Rasheed in Rawalpindi for the recording of an Eid programme. […]
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, has welcomed the decision of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to lift censorship on state-run Pakistan Television and Radio Pakistan. “The announcement by the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan that state media will be allowed editorial independence appears to […]
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Ahmed on Tuesday announced that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government had lifted political censorship on state-run news organisations. In a statement posted on Twitter, the minister said that both Pakistan Television (PTV) and Radio Pakistan would now enjoy complete editorial independence over the content they produce. “As per vision of @ImranKhanPTI Ended […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada has expressed concern over the attack on award-winning photojournalist Stan Behal by a protestor in Toronto. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter commends the Toronto police for launching an investigation into this incident in response to the complaint […]
