Malik Ismail has been employed with a private Pashto language TV channel in Peshawar for the past six years, encountering numerous legal challenges due to his reporting. On November 24, 2018, he reported on corruption in recruiting lecturers at the University of Mardan, prompting the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to take notice. Subsequently, a case […]

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The killing of senior journalist Arshad Sharif in October last year was a well-planned murder, which left both Pakistan and Kenya looking at each other suspiciously, NTV Kenya reported on Monday. “One year after the gruesome murder of celebrated Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, little to near zero effort has been made to nail his killers,” […]

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KARACHI: A day after the disappearance of two Karachi-based journalists, the Sindh Commission for the Protection of Journalists and other Media Practitioners on Sunday took notice of raids on their residences and ordered the home secretary and inspector general of police to recover Anees Mansoori and Ali Sarwar within 24 hours. According to a press […]

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Three years ago, in Karachi, a senior journalist affiliated with Geo TV was abducted. The journalist’s name was Ali Imran Syed. He left the office for home and was abducted near his house. The abductors kept him in their custody for 22 hours and then dropped him off at his mother’s house. He remembers the […]

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With Pakistan expected to hold general elections in January 2024, the need for an open, restriction-free, and safe environment for the media to work in is crucial. Journalists and media professionals in Pakistan must be able to cover the upcoming elections, including the pre-election period, without the fear of backlash in the form of violence […]

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With Pakistan expected to hold general elections in January 2024, the need for an open, restriction-free, and safe environment for the media to work in is crucial. Journalists and media professionals in Pakistan must be able to cover the upcoming elections, including the pre-election period, without the fear of backlash in the form of violence […]

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پاکستان میں جنوری 2024 میں عام انتخابات متوقع ہیں ایسے میں میڈیا کے لیے کام کرنے کے لیے آزاد، پابندی سے پاک اور محفوظ ماحول کی ضرورت بہت اہم ہے۔ پاکستان میں صحافیوں اور میڈیا کے پیشہ ور افراد کو تشدد،  دھمکیوں، ریاست کی طرف سے عائد کردہ پابندیوں، یا آزادی اظہار کو محدود کرنے […]

The post صحافیوں کے خلاف جرائم سے استثنیٰ کے خاتمے کے عالمی دن کے موقع پر، پی پی ایف آئندہ عام انتخابات کی کوریج کے لیے میڈیا کے لیے ‘آزاد، پابندی سے پاک اور محفوظ’ ماحول کی ضرورت پر زور دیتا ہے۔ first appeared on Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF).