Tag: media freedom
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EU report highlights rights issues and corruption in Pakistan
On Tuesday, the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) jointly revealed a monitoring report on Pakistan’s Generalised Scheme of Preference, or GSP Plus.
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PM Khan strongly dislikes Pakistani media: Foreign Policy report
“Pakistan’s government is tightening its control of media with laws and oversight bodies that critics say enhance its power to censor and punish journalists. New laws potentially extend control to social media such as YouTube and Twitter, snuffing out investigative journalism and critical commentary,” says a report published in Foreign Policy (FP) magazine. The report says…
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President Alvi addresses joint session in NA amid media protest
President Dr Arif Alvi addressed a joint sitting of parliament on Monday, marking the start of the fourth parliamentary year of the National Assembly amid chaos outside parliament. The President of Pakistan congratulated the members of parliament at the start of the new legislative year and expressed hope that democratic values and the “tradition of…
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“Human Rights Watch’s statement based on gossip”, Pakistan challenges report on media bill
Pakistan responded to a dispatch by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Associate Asia Director, Patricia Gossman, on the proposed media bill. Pakistan condemned the claims of the organisation and termed the statement “factually incorrect”. “The statement of Human Rights Watch is factually incorrect as there is no plan to introduce the regulatory body through an…
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Fawad Chaudhry, Shireen Mazari condemn attack on journalist
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry and Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari on Wednesday condemned the attack on journalist Asad Ali Toor, by unidentified men. As per the official account of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, SSP Islamabad has been directed to probe the attack and bring the perpetrators to justice.…
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Israeli air strike destroys the offices of Al Jazeera and AP in Gaza
An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of the Associated Press (AP), Al Jazeera and other media outlets on Saturday, Associated Press has reported. The 12-storey Al-Jalaa building crashed down to earth as the result of the air strike. As per media reports, the building’s owner received a call…
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Politicians, journalists mark #WorldPressFreedomDay
World Press Freedom Day is observed every year on May 3 and this year’s theme is ‘Information as a Public Good’. To mark the day, politicians, journalists and other key figures have stepped forward to call for freedom of press and media. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was also among those who marked this day.…
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PTI issues list of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ journalists, deletes tweet after backlash
In another attack on press freedom, an official Twitter handle of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Lahore issued a list of ‘bad’ journalists on social media, calling them “anchors/mediamen building narratives for the corrupt”. “Let take these name loud and clear,” read the tweet with hashtag ‘HardTalkNotCapitalTalk’. A little context of the tweet: the said hashtag started…
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Cable operators directed to shut down Geo TV
Soon after Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan’s press conference on the arrest of Jang/Geo Group owner Mir Shakilur Rehman, cable operators started receiving directions to shut down Geo TV’s broadcast or shift the channel to last numbers, the private media outlet has reported. The channel was shifted to last numbers in various cities and its broadcast…