Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Wednesday condemned Sheikh Rashid Ahmed s misbehaviour with a reporter of a private news channel during his media talk earlier in the day. Marriyum Aurangzeb, in a news statement, said the persons like Sheikh Rashid restored to attack journalists when they had no answer to a question […]

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has chal­k­­ed out a plan to hold nat­i­o­n­­wide demonstrations, as well as a sit-in opposite Parliament House in Isla­mabad, in protest against the federal government’s anti-media measures. Afzal Butt, the PFUJ president, and secretary General Arshad Ansari said in a statement on Tuesday the campaign would begin […]

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KARACHI – January 22, 2023: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has issued the “Pakistan Press Freedom Report 2022”. According to the report, freedom of media in Pakistan faced exacerbating scenarios of jeopardy in 2022 whereas freedom of speech was continuously suppressed and sabotaged. According to CPNE’s “Pakistan Media Freedom Report 2022”, four media […]

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Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Javed Abbasi informed the Senate on Friday that 42 journalists were killed in the country over the past four years. Data from the information ministry, available with Dawn.com, showed that 15 of the journalists hailed from Punjab, 11 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and three from Balochistan. The deaths […]

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An Islamabad sessions court on Wednesday granted bail to Bol News journalist Shahid Aslam, who was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from Lahore last week for his alleged part in leaking personal tax data of former army chief General (retired) Qamar Javed Bajwa. In November, a report published by investigative news website FactFocus […]

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) strongly condemns the arrest of Bol News journalist Shahid Aslam in connection with a Fact Focus investigative story on the assets of former army chief General (retired) Qamar Javed Bajwa. As stated in court Aslam was asked to share his laptop password. This is a blatant violation of the recently enacted […]

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ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: A local court on Saturday approved a two-day physical remand of journalist Shahid Aslam, who was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for his purported part in the leaks of former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa’s personal tax data. In November 2022, the tax information of Gen (retd) Qamar’s family was […]

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