ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s security guards assaulted and injured the cameraman of a private news channel outside Parliament House on Monday. Mr Sharif met his brother Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif and senior PML-N leaders, including ex-prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and former speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, besides […]
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif defended the guard responsible for the attack on SAMAA TV cameraman Wajid Ali outside parliament on Monday. The PML-N Quaid, who was apologetic before, put the entire blame on the cameraman while he spoke to media inside the accountability court chamber on Tuesday. He said that his guard, identified as Shakoor, was in […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Nana Akufo-Addo, President the Republic of Ghana has expressed concern over the abuse on radio presenter of Hot FM, also damage of equipment’s in the studio. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter has condemned this unacceptable behavior of pastor at a radio station and […]
KARACHI: The current crisis, the Pakistani media industry is facing, took an ugly turn when Jang Group announced to shut down its five newspapers including three eveningers (newspapers being published in the evening), besides the closure of daily Jang’s Faisalabad and Peshawar editions. The move rendered nearly 1000 journalists and media workers associated with these […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka has expressed concern over the disruptive incident taken place at the Lake House. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali has condemned this incident and termed it an attack on media organizations. PPF also called on the authorities to immediately investigate the […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Khadga Prasad Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal has expressed concern over the arrest and brief detention of photojournalist Barsha Shah. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali has condemned this unacceptable action of police and considered it an attack on freedom of expression. PPF also urged the authorities […]
ISLAMABAD: For the third consecutive year at least 251 journalists are behind bars for their work, as authoritarian regimes increasingly use imprisonment to silence dissent, the Committee to Protect Journalists found. As of December 1, 2018, CPJ found 251 journalists are in jail for their work. China, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia imprisoned more journalists than […]
