KARACHI: Police stopped journalists from entering Karachi High Court to cover the Karachi Bar annual election on Saturday. The police ordered all the media persons to stay out of court. A large number of litigants were also present outside the court for case hearings but now facing severe difficulties as Karachi Bar Association elections were […]
ISLAMABAD: A senior counsel representing the parents of slain Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl on Tuesday submitted a DNA report in the Supreme Court to establish the fact that a body found in Karachi after the journalist’s murder in 2002 was that of the son of Judea and Ruth Pearl. The […]
ISLAMABAD: As the year 2020 draws to a close, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a ‘White Paper on Global Journalism’ listed five countries, including Pakistan and India, as the ‘Most Dangerous Countries for Practice of Journalism in the World’. The white paper marks the 13th anniversary of the ‘The List of Journalists Killed […]
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan Wednesday noted that the Sindh government case about kidnapping and killing of Daniel Pearl, Bureau Chief of Wall Street Journal in Pakistan, seems to be weak, as there are many loopholes in it. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam conducted hearing of […]
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday adjourned hearing of a case against acquittal of accused by the Sindh High Court (SHC) in American journalist Daniel Pearl murder case till Wednesday. A three-member special bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Yahya […]
A local journalist was shot dead by unidentified persons inside his house in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday night, police said on Tuesday. According to the first information report (FIR), lodged at the Cantt police station today on the complaint of the deceased’s cousin, Qais Javed had entered his house and was in his front […]
The public believes that mainstream media hide or distort the facts, willingly or unwillingly, to fit their content between the unmarked lines that decide if the news or opinion piece is published or if it is binned — which is almost true. Since Urdu is the main language of communication in Pakistan, and journalism is […]
