THE statistics might show a different picture but the fact is that print and electronic media in Pakistan face many restrictions. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has ranked Pakistan 147 on the 2016 World Press Freedom Index — a ranking that is up by 12 places from last year’s score. And yet, there are restrictions on […]

Veteran journalist Shahzada Zulfiqar is almost mid-way through his third stint as president at the Quetta Press Club in a province where it is preferable to stay silent to remain alive. In Balochistan, a good story is not one that is well-documented by local reporters. Instead, it is one that mitigates risk. Local journalists think […]

Pakistan is witnessing worrying new policies and practices that can have serious consequences on freedom of expression and safety of media in the country, according to the Pakistan Press Freedom Report issued by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) on World Press Freedom Day commemorated globally on May 3. The report cites aggressive system of editorial advice […]

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to IlhamAliyev, President of Republic of Azerbaijan, expressed concern over the harassment of Meydan TV and its members, and regarding the launch criminal investigation against the TV. PPF Secretary General OwaisAslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Azerbaijan to withdraw all the charges against Meydan TV, […]

PARIS: Journalists in Pakistan are targeted from “all sides” even as the conditions for media in the country improved slightly. “Journalists are targeted by extremist groups, militant organisations and state organisations,” stated a new report on press freedom by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The report, released on Wednesday showed that Pakistan had jumped 12 spots […]

Sindh police has reopened investigations into the murder of Shan Dahar, bureau chief of Aab Takk television channel in Larkana. Dahar was murdered on 1 January, 2014, in town of Badah in Larkana. Riaz Khushk, brother-in-law of Dahar had on January 1, 2015 registered a criminal complaint (First Information Report or FIR) of his murder. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in calling for the formal release of a judicial commission’s report on the 2014 shooting of Geo Television journalist Hamid Mir after details of the report were leaked to the public. The PPF yesterday called on Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali […]