Tag: Journalists

Journalists and activists in Pakistan faced an increasingly hostile climate in 2015 due to harassment, threats and violence from both the state and militant...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed its alarm and serious dismay over Pakistan voting last week against a United Nations General...

  A report on safety of Pakistani media professionals presents a bleak picture of the level of insecurity faced by Pakistani journalists and calls have...

  Security guards manhandled journalists and media workers at the Karachi University on Monday when they were covering a women's cricket match at the campus. Female...

Two American TV journalists were shot dead during live reporting in rural Virginia on Wednesday, a local news network reported. 24-year-old Alison Parker and 27-year-old...

Syria tops the list of countries where journalists are forced into exile due to threats to their lives, the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists...

The Information Ministry spent over Rs 6 million on refreshments for journalists in 2013. According to Press Information Department (PID) documents, the ministry arranged 700...

Two remaining Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt on charges of aiding a "terrorist organization" were freed on bail on Thursday after more than...

While addressing an international conference on security of journalists in Islamabad on Tuesday, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Minister Pervaiz Rashid said that the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Tuesday said, “Pakistan is the most dangerous country for journalists in the world. In 2014 only, 14 journalists...

Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) government believes in the freedom of press and would provide safety cover to them so they could perform their duties...

ISLAMABAD The Senate on Monday assured journalists to enact legislation for of their welfare and protection of journalists and also formed a committee in...

KARACHI Fearing a terrorist activity at the poorly-guarded Sindh Secretariat, the Sindh government has linked the entry of journalists into the building to the...

Three Al-Jazeera journalists on trial in Egypt denied accusations that they were terrorists running an international 'sleeper cell', as they were paraded before the...

A sub-committee of National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage on Friday urged the police and media houses to take...

ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said Pakistan has decided to establish a commission to evolve recommendations for journalists’ protection. He was talking to...

ISLAMABAD- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday announced that a media commission will be set up to ensure the safety and security of journalists working...