Media in Pakistan

 Published 6 years ago:  Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) expresses grave concern over the communications blackout in Indian held Kashmir.

 Published 6 years ago:  The International Federation of Journalists calls on authorities in Indian-Occupied Kashmir to lift the information siege on the region.

 Published 6 years ago:  Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist strongly condemns restrictions on media and complete lockdown in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir.

 Published 6 years ago:  Senior journalist Owais Tohid joins 92 News Television where he will appear in the program Muqabil.

 Published 6 years ago:  The BBC World Service extends output on shortwave radio in Indian-administered Kashmir to provide reliable news and information.

 Published 6 years ago:  The authorities in Indian Occupied Kashmir seek details of Pakistani journalist Wajahat S. Khan’s account from Twitter, claiming he is spreading rumors.

 Published 6 years ago:  An American journalist working in the Philippines is shot and critically wounded while retrieving his daughter from school.

 Published 6 years ago:  The Committee to Protect Journalists expresses alarm at reports of a communication blackout and the arrest of a journalist in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

 Published 6 years ago:  Two people were killed in a blast targeting workers for an Afghan television station on Sunday, officials said.

 Published 6 years ago:  Reporters Without Borders writes an open letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan calling for recognizing the decline in the state of press freedom in Pakistan.

 Published 6 years ago:  A Mexican journalist who covered the police in the violent southwestern state of Guerrero is found dead in the trunk of a vehicle.

 Published 6 years ago:  Pakistani opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Imran Khan of intimidating broadcasters into a blackout on television coverage of his critics.

 Published 6 years ago:  Prime Minister Imran Khan unfollows prominent Geo News TV presenter Hamid Mir on Twitter.

 Published 6 years ago:  Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists rejects the idea of media courts, proposed by Special Assistant to Prime Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan.

 Published 6 years ago:  Punjab Union of Journalists condemns the termination of about 150 employees by City 42 Television.

 Published 6 years ago:  Mohammad Tayyab and Ali Raza, two reporters of 24 News, are brutally beaten by a group of lawyers in Faisalabad.

 Published 6 years ago:  Journalists in Pakistan face financial instability with reports that some have not been paid for over three months,

 Published 6 years ago:  Geo News is forced off the air or has its channel number abruptly changed in many parts of the country.

 Published 6 years ago:  Friends and colleagues gather at the Centre for Excellence in Journalism to remember journalists Idrees Bakhtiar and Anil Datta, who passed away recently.

 Published 6 years ago:  A study has found Pakistan a high-risk country in terms of media pluralism with more than half of the mass media ownership concentrated in only a few hands.

 Published 6 years ago:  Nader Shah Sahebzadeh, a talk show host for Radio Gardez Ghar, is found killed in the Gardez, the capital of Paktia province in Afghanistan’s east.

 Published 6 years ago:  The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor editor of Dawn newspaper Zaffar Abbas with the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award this November.

 Published 6 years ago:  Journalists hold nationwide protests to denounce rampant censorship, massive layoffs due to budget cuts and months-long delays in payments of their wages.

 Published 6 years ago:  The News on Sunday publishes a picture of journalist Mariana Baabar Pashteen in an obituary for Zuhra Karim, the late editor of She magazine. The blunder mars a tribute to Karim, a pioneer in women's journalism in Pakistan. Using a living journalist's photo in place of a deceased editor reflects poorly on the newspaper's professionalism.

 Published 6 years ago:  Imtiyaz Khan Faran, President of Karachi Press Club, says freedom for journalists working in Karachi has deteriorated in the past six months.

 Published 6 years ago:  Forced off Twitter almost a week ago, Jang Group journalists Umar Cheema and Azaz Syed return to the social media platform.

 Published 6 years ago:  Prominent television anchor Iftikhar Ahmad decides to quit 24 News TV for health reasons.

 Published 6 years ago:  Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is heckled by a Canadian journalist in London after his Twitter account is suspended over complaints from government