LARKANA: An employee of the People’s Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) was booked under sections 506/2 and 504 of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Market police station for allegedly hurling life threats to the Larkana Press Club vice president, Tariq Durrani. The suspect, Dr Tariq Soomro, was arrested after Mr Durrani, a journalist working for […]

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KABUL: Pakistani journalist Anas Mallick revealed on Saturday that he was “physically assaulted” during his 21-hour detention by the Taliban in Kabul. In a tweet, the journalist also revealed that his producer and driver were released by Taliban authorities after being detained for 42 hours. Mallick and his crew went missing in Kabul on Thursday […]

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the actions of police in Rawalpindi during a protest by teachers and clerks in which photojournalist Faisal Khan was injured. The decision of the police to baton-charge protesters resulted in the injury of the journalist, along with ten teachers and clerks. It is the job of a journalist to cover […]

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani journalist Anas Mallick, who had gone missing in Kabul a day ago, is “safe”, Pakistani envoy Mansoor Ahmed Khan said on Friday after talking to him on the phone. “Regarding reports about Pakistani journalist Anas Mallick, I have just talked to him on phone briefly. He is in Kabul and safe. Embassy will […]

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Senior photojournalist Faisal Khan was covering the protest of the teachers when the Punjab police baton charged him.
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NOWSHERA: A local journalist on Wednesday narrowly escaped bid on his life when unknown car riders allegedly tried to crush him to death. Shaheen Shah, a local journalist and general secretary of the Nowshera Press Club, told the police that he was coming to press club when unidentified car riders intentionally hit him and fled […]

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While covering by-elections in the Punjab province, a reporter for ARY News was verbally assaulted by Lahore’s capital city police officer. Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the incident. Journalists should be allowed to work without such challenges and their role in ensuring free and fair elections through accurate reporting must not be threatened. On July […]

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