Army dismisses Amnesty report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan army on Friday rejected a recent report by the Amnesty International that journalists in the country are under "serious threat" from state security forces, some political parties and religious militant groups as baseless.
The Amnesty report said that several journalists claimed to have been threatened for reporting on the military, political parties or armed groups, but the authorities failed to bring the perpetrators t
Pakistani journos under serious threat: AI
LONDON: Journalists in Pakistan are under “serious threat” from state security forces, some political parties and religious militant groups, Amnesty International has said.
The News, reporting on the launch of AI’s 2013 annual report at its London headquarters, said the human rights organization’s Secretary General Salil Shetty cited the example of senior Geo TV and
Woodrow scholarship for business scribe
WASHINGTON: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., in collaboration with the Fellowship Fund for Pakistan (FFFP) has announced the appointment of Khurram Husain as the Wilson Center's
new Pakistan scholar.
Husain, a business and economic journalist working in Pakistan, will spend nine months in residence at the Wilson Center beginning September 3, 2013, working on a book on th
Pakistan's Endangered Press
More than 20 journalists have been murdered in reprisal for their work in Pakistan over the past decade. Not one case has been solved, not a single conviction won. This perfect record of impunity has fostered an ever-more violent climate for journalists, says a special report by media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists.
Fatalities have jumped in the past five years, and today, Pakistan ranks among the world’s deadliest n
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The News journalist wins honor
UNITED NATIONS: Maria Kamal of The News is among four journalists selected by the Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists to cover the 68th session of the UN G
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Judiciary's criticism in talk show angers SC
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has expressed its anger over some journalists for criticizing the judiciary in a TV program, according to a report in the Daily Times.
Hearing the plea of Information Ministry’s counsel who asked for initi
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Pakistani photojourno to shoot in Beijing
KARACHI: Jahangir Khan will represent Pakistan Association of Photo Journalists at the “2013 World Photographers Focusing on Beijing", an international photographic event sponsored by the Information Office of the Beijing Municipality. The exhibition runs May
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LAHORE: It's been a fortnight or so and I'm glad the elections are over; the polls brought the best and the worst out of people, especially journalists, so-called journalists, bloggers and other habitual social media key boarders with an opinion on any and ev
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Newseum honors 7 fallen Pakistani journos
WASHINGTON: The funeral toll pierces the hall like the dying shriek of each of the 82 journalists whose names were read out at a memorial re-dedication at the Newseum in Washington Monday. Seven Pakistani media men were among those honored, says a report in
LAHORE: The much coveted elections were conducted on the proposed date and with an overwhelming voter turnout. Ultimately, the lions roared, taking the leverage from the citadel of Punjab province and the bat swept prominently in the valleys of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), except fWatchdog's version of Elections 2013
Pakistan expels NYT journalist
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s decision to expel New York Times Bureau Chief Declan Walsh has drawn condemnation from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a US-based media watchdog.
Bob Dietz, coordinator of CPJ’s Asia Program has asked the Pakistan interim government to reverse its deci
Over 2000 journos miss right to vote
ISLAMABAD: More than 2,000 journalists in Islamabad and Rawalpindi were not be able to cast their votes in their ancestral towns and villages because of Election Day duties.
The journalists had earlier demanded of the Election Commission of Pakistan to devise a swift strategy to facilitate them to
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