PARIS: Reporters Sans Borders (RSF) calls on the Dutch authorities to protect a Pakistani blogger who was attacked and threatened outside the Rotterdam home where he lives with his family in self-imposed exile, says a press release issued here. The attack on the blogger, Ahmad Waqass Goraya, was carried out by two men on February […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has expressed its concern and dismay over the Punjab police incompetence to hold an inquiry into the burglary incident that occurred at the residence of veteran journalist Imtiaz Alam and demanded of the government to hold a judicial inquiry to probe the incident. According to a press release […]

KARACHI: The opponents of critical speech have found a new method of silencing expression online — this time in Twitter’s rules enforcement policies. On Feb 23 2018, feminist group Women’s Democratic Front (WDF) posted a tweet calling for public participation in a Women’s Day gathering. Two years later, Twitter locked the WDF account saying the […]

Attempts to keep media under the state control will harm democracy. The current state of journalism in Pakistan is not praiseworthy as on the one hand, there is severe censorship and on the other hand, journalists have lost interest in working on investigative stories. Moreover, owing to the free flow of information, it has become […]

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Senior Vice-President Shamim Shahid has condemned police torture and maltreatment of a journalist from Khyber tribal district, Shah Nawaz Khan. Shamim Shahid has demanded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to take action against the police officials involved in torture of the Bara-based journalist. The PFUJ senior vice-president said it […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has restrained filmmaker Jamshed Mahmood, popularly known as Jami, from making any defamatory statement against Dawn Chief Executive Officer Hameed Haroon. The single bench of the SHC headed by Justice Agha Faisal issued a notice to the defendant (Jami) for Feb 12 and ruled that, in the meanwhile, he was restrained from […]

ISLAMABAD: Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights will take up the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) move to regulate web TV and over the top (OTT) content services in its next meeting on Feb 10. According to the agenda issued on Monday, the Pemra chairman will brief the committee on regulating web TV and […]