Media in Pakistan

 Published 6 years ago:  Former Pakistan ambassador to US, Hussain Haqqani serves a legal notice on The Nation for defaming him through two articles.

 Published 6 years ago:  Police arrest the publisher of one of the most widely read newspapers in Indian-Occupied Kashmir in a midnight raid over a decades-old case,

 Published 6 years ago:  The management of 24 News Television is closing down its Quetta bureau with seven employees to lose jobs.

 Published 6 years ago:  Masroor Ali Sial, a senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), attacked journalist and Karachi Press Club President Imtiaz Khan Faran during a heated debate on a live talk show. The video, widely shared on social media, shows Sial pushing Faran to the floor and punching him. The incident draws significant criticism towards PTI.

 Published 6 years ago:  Australia's competition watchdog is poised to call for far-reaching new regulations on Facebook, Google, and other tech giants.

 Published 6 years ago:  Pakistan is most affected by environmental challenges and media can play an essential role in highlighting them, says environmenal lawyer.

 Published 6 years ago:  Jang Group appoints Ataul Musawwir Prizada as editor of The News on Sunday after the resignation of Farah Zia who was at the helm for 12 years.

 Published 6 years ago:  The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Pakistani authorities to swiftly investigate the killing of journalist Muhammad Bilal Khan in Islamabad.

 Published 6 years ago:  Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes a UN report calling on both the head of the UN and the US FBI to open criminal probes into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

 Published 6 years ago:  24 News Television closes down its Peshawar bureau and terminates about a dozen employees.

 Published 6 years ago:  Journalists, policy-makers, and human rights experts gather at a press freedom summit in Mexico City, hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

 Published 6 years ago:  The Pakistani government complains to the British communications regulator and BBC for its story on alleged human rights abuses in the tribal areas.

 Published 6 years ago:  A politician is given paws for thought after his press conference is streamed live on Facebook with the "cat filter" turned on.

 Published 6 years ago:  President of BOL News Sami Abraham seeks registration of FIR against Minister for Science Fawad Chaudhry, who allegedly slapped him.

 Published 6 years ago:  Senior journalist Mateen Haider and colleagues were attacked and beaten in Sector E-7 by alleged accomplices of notorious land grabber Hamza Bari. The incident occurred while they were condoling a death. Police have registered an FIR and made three arrests.

 Published 6 years ago:  Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry says he had initiated criminal proceedings against journalist Sami Abraham for defamation.

 Published 6 years ago:  Arif Hameed Bhatti, the Lahore bureau chief of ARY News and an analyst joins GNN as the chief operating officer.

 Published 6 years ago:  IFJ delegates convening in Tunis for their World Congress elect Younes M’Jahed of Morocco as their new president.

 Published 6 years ago:  A newspaper in the Mexican state of Tabasco says one of its reporters has been shot dead at her home.

 Published 6 years ago:   Intelligence operatives harassed senior Dawn correspondent Baqir Sajjad after meeting British diplomats in Islamabad. Despite their attempts to detain him, Sajjad managed to escape. The incident has been widely condemned by media watchdogs, politicians, and journalists.

 Published 6 years ago:  Four journalists have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh, India for sharing a video on Twitter deemed to be 'defaming' the chief minister.

 Published 6 years ago:  Iran revokes the press accreditation for The New York Times’ correspondent based in Tehran without explanation.

 Published 6 years ago:  A taunting tweet by journalist and actor Sanaa Bucha addressing the Director General of ISPR, Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, receives a telling response from him.

 Published 6 years ago:  Russia detains an investigative journalist for drugs offenses, prompting protests as supporters condemn the charges as trumped-up.

 Published 6 years ago:  CPJ calls on German Interior Ministry to drop draft legislation that would allow intelligence services to surveil journalists and their sources.

 Published 6 years ago:  Journalist Ejaz Butt has his mobile phone stolen at the Governor's House in Lahore and also loses his job at Jehan Pakistan newspaper.

 Published 6 years ago:  Unknown assailants attack Russian video blogger Vadim Kharchenko, founder of YouTube channel 'Personal Opinion' after he goes to meet a potential source.

 Published 6 years ago:  Cyril Almeida, an assistant editor at Dawn, receives the International Press Institute's 71st World Press Freedom Hero Award at a ceremony in Geneva.