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HRCP condemns arrest of journalist in Pakistan

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January 19, 2023
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News Desk The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has strongly condemned the arrest of journalist Shahid Aslam by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). FIA arrested the Bol News journalist from Lahore last week for his alleged part in leaking the personal tax data of former army chief General (retired) Qamar Javed Bajwa. In November, investigative news website FactFocus accused …

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Meta expands digital literacy programme to G-B

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October 21, 2022
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Digital Literacy

The programme has reached 130,000 students and 3,094 teachers across 28 districts of the country providing them with a collection of accessible learning modules that help people think critically and share online thoughtfully, as well as empowering them with the skills needed to be informed and safe online.

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Imran’s dark web man delivered ultimatum: Sethi

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October 3, 2022
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The senior journalist and TV commentator said the PML-N could have governor’s rule imposed in Punjab. He said this is what he foresaw coming, sooner or later The Friday Times (TFT) editor Najam Sethi said on Friday that no more ‘audio leaks’ on the governing coalition will follow since Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s man on the dark web …

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‘Protect rights of journalists, media workers

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September 23, 2022
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Media workers rights

Participants of an awareness session demand a new legal framework for digital and electronic media journalists and workers and; updating of existing laws for print media.

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Why mobile journalism is modern journalism

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June 25, 2022
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By Devin Windelspecht More than five billion people have mobile devices today, with studies suggesting that over 70% of internet users will be accessing the internet solely through their smartphones by 2025. The growing population of smartphone users is changing how we see and consume information: from the filming of police violence in the U.S. to using smartphone text chains …

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Pakistani media’s existential crisis

By thehighasia
May 8, 2022
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Pakistan’s media has been grappling with an existential crisis in recent years, with critical areas going from bad to worse. This includes a staggering two-fifths of media jobs — 8,000 out of 20,000 — being wiped out, partly because of lifeline public sector advertising having shrunk by over half, and a squeezed media economy that is drying up even private sector advertising.

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PM rebukes IK for media censorship

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May 5, 2022
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Pakistan further drops by 12 points on World Press Freedom Index during PTI government News desk Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif slammed former premier Imran Khan for media censorship during the PTI tenure and said that his government is fully committed to freedom of press and speech in the country. In his statement, a day after World Press Freedom Day, the …

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PFUJ hails government’s decision to abandon PMDA

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April 24, 2022
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Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has hailed the Federal Government’s decision to abandon the establishment of Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA), which was planned by the ousted PTI government. The PFUJ also lauded the Federal Information Minister, Marriyum Aurangzeb’s announcement to start consultations with stakeholders to review the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 in order to ensure …

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Asma Shirazi serves Rs10m defamation notice on PTI’s Ali Nawaz Awan

By Inayat Amir
March 4, 2022
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Asma Sherazi

Seeks unconditional apology, removal of defamatory comment from social media By Inayat Amir ISLAMABAD: Prominent journalist Asma Shirazi has served a defamation notice on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf lawmaker Ali Nawaz Awan for making ‘false, malicious and defamatory comments’ about her on national television, it was learnt. In a message on the micro-blogging website Twitter, the Peter Mackler Award-winning journalist announced that …

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Scholar, media historian Mehdi Hasan’s death condoled

By Inayat Amir
February 24, 2022
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His teaching career spanned 50 years, during which he served as the dean of journalism and mass communication at Beaconhouse National University.

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Disaster risk management: GBDMA role slammed

By thehighasia
January 12, 2022
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Earthquake

Media, activists call for creating awareness about disaster risk management, quake-resistance infrastructures; special focus on differently-abled persons needs  By Ghulamuddin Media and civil society activists have criticized the irregularities in the distribution of relief goods among earthquake-affected people in Baltistan’s Rondu sub-Division and the incompetence of disaster-risk management and emergency service departments. They demanded the Gilgit-Baltistan government and Disaster Management …

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M.Ziauddin — the last of the Mohicans

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November 30, 2021
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Obituary

Ziauddin sahib has managed the nearly impossible: to maintain a blemish-free record throughout despite skirmishes with the high and mighty, including the once all-powerful General Pervez Musharraf

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Hate campaign against Asma Shirazi condemned

By thehighasia
October 27, 2021
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Media-Muzzles

Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists demand judicial probe for phone tapping, monitoring of journalists Herald Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has demanded a judicial probe into tapping, tracking, and monitoring of journalists’ telephone calls as admitted by prime minister’s special assistant on political affairs Shahbaz Gill during a press conference on Thursday. In a joint statement, PFUJ …

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Speakers vow to resist attacks on media, judiciary

By thehighasia
June 18, 2021
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Lawyers' moot

Leaders of lawyers' and media bodies, human rights defenders, and parliamentarians Thursday vowed to resist increasing assault on judiciary and media.

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Pro-Palestinian views: Outcry after AP reporter fired

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May 24, 2021
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Pro-Palestine Reporter

Emily Wilder had been targeted by extremist Zionist media outlets; News agency decision to fire Emily Wilder criticised after rightwing media highlight her previous activism in college.

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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