آٹھ سال قبل 21 اگست 2013 کے اس بدنصیب دن لاپتہ صحافی حاجی عبدالرزاق سربازی کی لاش کراچی میں پائی گئی تھی۔ بلوچی زبان کے اخبار ڈیلی توار کے کاپی ایڈیٹر عبدالرزاق 24 مارچ 2013 سے شہر سے لاپتہ تھے۔ پاکستان پریس فاؤنڈیشن (پی پی ایف) سے بات کرتے ہوئے سعیدہ سربازی نے کہا کہ […]

On this fateful day, eight years ago on August 21, 2013, the body of the missing journalist, Haji Abdul Razzak Sarbazi, was found in Karachi. A copy editor for the Balochi-language newspaper Daily Tawar, Abdul Razzak had been missing from the city since March 24, 2013. Speaking to Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), Saeeda Sarbazi said […]

BRUSSELS: The European Union is concerned over the continued reported cases of violence, intimidation, abduction, and killing of journalists in Pakistan, EU spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Nabila Massrali said Tuesday. There is a “clear, negative trend” in the freedom of media in recent years, Massrali said in a statement. “The backtracking in […]

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is concerned at the arrest of two journalists — Amir Mir and Imran Shafqat — in Lahore on August 7 by the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA). While the investigating body has issued a statement for the reasons for their arrest, it is an overreach of the FIA’s powers to detain the […]

ISLAMABAD: Speakers in countrywide protest rallies on Monday condemned growing threats and violence against journalists and media workers and demanded respect to Freedom of Press and Free Speech and Expression in the country. Journalists and media workers and members the civil society attended the rallies in all the major cities across the country which were […]

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) cybercrime wing on Saturday briefly held two journalists for uploading content on their YouTube channels allegedly “against the army, judiciary and women”. Both journalists, who were picked up from their residences here, were released after a detention of a few hours. “The station house officer of the FIA cybercrime […]

On August 8, 2016, a bomb blast rippled through Quetta, the capital of the Balochistan province killing at least 73 people, two journalists were amongst the dead. Over a hundred were injured in the explosion. A large number of lawyers had gathered outside the emergency ward of the Provincial Sandeman Hospital, known as Civil Hospital, […]