KARACHI: Two employees of Dawn News channel sustained bullet wounds when their van came under attack in District Malir of Karachi in the late hours of Wednesday. According to police, at least two armed assailants, riding a motorbike, opened fire on the media group’s vehicle near DC office in the Quaidabad neighbourhood. As a result […]

KARACHI, August 17 (PPI): International Freedom of (PPI) Expression Exchange (IFEX), the global network of 104 organisations promoting and defending freedom of expression worldwide, in two separate letters, has urged new Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh to pay attention towards ongoing investigation into the killing […]

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has imposed a 45-day ban on the ARY News programme ‘Live with Dr Shahid Masood’. According to a statement issued by Pemra on Thursday, Dr Shahid Masood alleged — in a programme aired on June 22 — that the son of the Sindh High Court chief justice […]

On the week of Mehmood’s 26th birthday, Ali Shah’s heart is broken, and so is mine. When I spoke to Syed Ali Shah, my friend and former colleague from Pakistani TV channel DawnNews, last night, he said, “Mehmood left this world and took his dreams with him.” DawnNews cameraman Mehmood Khan was killed in the […]

On the first day of the week, the lawyers of Quetta left their homes early in the morning in a hurry. They not only had to reach the courts but also participate in the election campaign of the upcoming bar elections. They did not know that almost all of them would not return home that […]

KARACHI: The tragedy in Quetta is a consequence of the state’s double standards and policies regarding the ‘good and bad Taliban’. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) representative Asad Iqbal Butt said this at a ‘Peace Walk’ organised by the civil society on Tuesday. Participants from HRCP, Women Action Forum, Democratic Students Federation (DSF), Pakistan […]

Two cameramen of Aaj News television channel and Dawn News television channel killed and two other media workers were injured in a bomb explosion at Civil Hospital in Quetta the capital city of aluchistan province. The blast occurred near the emergency department of the hospital in the early hours of August 8 when lawyers and […]