Senior photojournalist Faisal Khan was covering the protest of the teachers when the Punjab police baton charged him.
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NOWSHERA: A local journalist on Wednesday narrowly escaped bid on his life when unknown car riders allegedly tried to crush him to death. Shaheen Shah, a local journalist and general secretary of the Nowshera Press Club, told the police that he was coming to press club when unidentified car riders intentionally hit him and fled […]

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While covering by-elections in the Punjab province, a reporter for ARY News was verbally assaulted by Lahore’s capital city police officer. Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) condemns the incident. Journalists should be allowed to work without such challenges and their role in ensuring free and fair elections through accurate reporting must not be threatened. On July […]

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Imran Khan claimed that he never issued orders against any journalists and only found out about a journalist’s disappearance or treatment in Cabinet meetings. On July 16th  2022 at a seminar on media freedom in Islamabad, former PM and PTI Chairman Imran Khan claimed that he never issued orders against any journalists and only found […]

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has described the statement of former Prime Minister Imran Khan claiming that he did not have any hand in stifling the media as against facts and reality. In a statement issued on Sunday, PFUJ President Shahzada Zulfiqar and Secretary General Nasir Zaidi said Mr Khan’s tenure would […]

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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb Saturday said that Imran Khan’s era was the darkest period for media. Addressing a news conference, the minister alleged Imran Khan is a habitual liar and a failed person, he only knows how to lie. She pointed out that Imran Khan is saying that the media was […]

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PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday distanced himself from restraints put on media freedom during his government, saying that any journalists picked up by the authorities were not on his directives. Addressing a seminar on media freedom in Islamabad, he said: “[When I was the prime minister] it was discussed in the cabinet three to […]

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