DISTURBING though it may be, it is hardly surprising that internet access in Pakistan is being selectively filtered — ‘censored’ is perhaps the more accurate word here. A research report released last week regarding random tests that involved 22 internet
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: As the mystery surrounding the disappearance of social media activists linked with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) deepened on Saturday, no one less than the party chief himself came out in support of the missing men. In a rare
RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing arrested on Friday two men suspected of posting on social media material and content deemed to be contemptuous of major state organs. The arrests were made during raids on the residences of
Mureed Baloch, spokesperson of the outlawed separatist United Baloch Army (UBA) said Pakistani newspapers were an extension of the “Anti Baloch” policies of the state of Pakistan and gave an ultimatum that unless this changed by October 24, they will
Three journalists from Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province went missing under mysterious circumstances on Oct 15 and were released the next day on October 16. Journalist Shahnawaz Tarakzai of Prague-based Mashaal Radio, a project of Radio Free Europe, was
PESHAWAR: Two journalists from tribal areas taken away by unidentified persons were freed on Monday night after a day of their captivity. Shahnawaz Khan Tarkzai was picked up by unidentified armed men from inside the Shabqadar Press Club (Media Centre)
The free media has a vital role towards the promotion of democracy. This was stated by the Governor of Sindh, Muhammad Zubair, here on Monday. He was talking to a five-member delegation of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE)
DISTURBING though it may be, it is hardly surprising that internet access in Pakistan is being selectively filtered — ‘censored’ is perhaps the more accurate word here. A research report released last week regarding random tests that involved 22 internet
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: As the mystery surrounding the disappearance of social media activists linked with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) deepened on Saturday, no one less than the party chief himself came out in support of the missing men. In a rare
RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing arrested on Friday two men suspected of posting on social media material and content deemed to be contemptuous of major state organs. The arrests were made during raids on the residences of
Mureed Baloch, spokesperson of the outlawed separatist United Baloch Army (UBA) said Pakistani newspapers were an extension of the “Anti Baloch” policies of the state of Pakistan and gave an ultimatum that unless this changed by October 24, they will
Three journalists from Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province went missing under mysterious circumstances on Oct 15 and were released the next day on October 16. Journalist Shahnawaz Tarakzai of Prague-based Mashaal Radio, a project of Radio Free Europe, was
PESHAWAR: Two journalists from tribal areas taken away by unidentified persons were freed on Monday night after a day of their captivity. Shahnawaz Khan Tarkzai was picked up by unidentified armed men from inside the Shabqadar Press Club (Media Centre)
The free media has a vital role towards the promotion of democracy. This was stated by the Governor of Sindh, Muhammad Zubair, here on Monday. He was talking to a five-member delegation of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE)
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