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PAKISTAN: ICJ WELCOMES UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE’S CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ON PAKISTAN November 08, 2024
PAKISTAN: AUTHORITIES MUST BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT INTERNET DISRUPTIONS AND SURVEILLANCE August 26, 2024
THE ENDLESS WAIT THE BIHARIS’ HISTORY OF EXILE July 28, 2024
STUDENT UNIONS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY June 30, 2024
CPJ CONDEMNS PHONE AND INTERNET DISRUPTIONS, BARRING OF JOURNALISTS DURING PAKISTAN ELECTION February 8, 2024
76 YEARS ON, PAKISTAN’S MINORITIES STRUGGLE TO MAKE THEIR VOICE HEARD THROUGH THE BALLOT January 24, 2024
JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME. WHAT’S CRIMINAL IS THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY FOR JOURNALISTS’ KILLERS IN PAKISTAN November 2, 2023
KILLING WITH IMPUNITY: VAST MAJORITY OF JOURNALISTS’ MURDERERS GO FREE November 1, 2022
PLIGHT OF JOURNALISTS IN BALOCHISTAN: UNPAID WAGES AND PRECARIOUS WORKING CONDITIONS October 5, 2023
INK AND ANGUISH: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STRUGGLES OF BALOCH JOURNALISTS September 17, 2023
THREATS TO PRESS FREEDOM IN PAKISTAN FROM HASTILY ADOPTED LAWS AHEAD OF ELECTIONS August 11, 2023
TWO YEARS SINCE TALIBAN TAKEOVER, AFGHAN JOURNALISTS FACE LIMBO IN PAKISTAN July 07, 2023
PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS ABROAD FACE TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS AT HOME June 15, 2023
PAKISTAN: MEDIA GROUP CONDEMNS REGISTRATION OF CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST FOUR JOURNALISTS June 19, 2023
PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS AHMAD NOORANI AND SHAHID ASLAM TARGETED IN LEAK CASEJune 8, 2023
SPIKE IN HARASSMENT CASES OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS Jun 06, 2023
THREATS, ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS IN PAKISTAN RISE BY OVER 60 PERCENT – REPORT May 1, 2023
PAKISTAN'S RECENT WIKIPEDIA BAN SPARKS CONTROVERSY OVER BLASPHEMY LAWS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH April 21, 2023
‘IT WAS A CURSE’: JOURNALISTS, ACTIVISTS HAIL ANNULMENT OF SEDITION LAW AS VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH MARCH 30, 2023
JOURNALIST SYED FAWAD ALI SHAH FOUND JAILED IN PAKISTAN AFTER GOING MISSING IN MALAYSIA March 5, 2023
PAKISTAN URGED TO FREE JOURNALIST HELD ILLEGALLY AFTER BEING DEPORTED FROM MALAYSIA February 2023
SMOKERS’ CORNER: PUNJAB'S BLASPHEMY PROBLEM February 2023
ONLINE HARASSMENT – ANOTHER TEST FOR FEMALE JOURNALISTS December 20, 2022
SINDH NOTIFIES COMMISSION FOR PROTECTION OF JOURNALISTS December 2022
PAKISTAN: REPORT SHOWS 100 CHRISTIANS FACED FAITH CONVERSION, CHILD MARRIAGE IN THREE YEARS December 2022
LEAS PUT 62 BLASPHEMERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEHIND THE BARS December 5, 2022
PAKISTAN PARTLY DELIVERED ON PROMISES TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: REPORT December 2022
UNESCO OBSERVATORY OF KILLED JOURNALISTS - PAKISTAN
JOURNALIST SADAF NAEEM'S DEATH CASTS SPOTLIGHT ON ‘RAT RACE’ OF BREAKING NEWS November 2022
CULTURAL BARRIERS POSING OBSTACLES FOR FEMALE JOURNALISTS IN KP November 2022
CASES OF 96PC MURDERED JOURNALISTS UNSOLVED: REPORT October 2022
VIEW ABOUT A FEMALE JOURNALIST: BOUND TO BE HARASSED IF SHE INVADES MALE SPACE, SAYS IMRAN October 2022
WHY THE PTA’S MOVE TO REGISTER VPNS SHOULD CONCERN US ALL September 2022
WOMEN JOURNALISTS AT HIGH RISKS OF ATTACK, CENSORSHIP July 2022
CPNE FORMS EDITORS-GOVT LIAISON COMMITTEE July 2022
CPNE FORMS MEDIA SAFETY AND SECURITY COMMITTEE July 2022
JOURNALISTS PICKED UP DURING PTI GOVT WERE NOT ON MY ORDERS: IMRAN July 2022
5 WOMEN JOURNALISTS FROM KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA WIN INTERNATIONAL AWARDS July 2022
SENATE BODY APPROVES BILL FOR SPECIAL PERSONS’ ACCESS TO MEDIA May 2022
DECLARING AS ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL’: IHC STRIKES DOWN PECA ORDINANCE April 2022
RISE OF THE TAJZIAKARS: IN THE STATE'S WAR AGAINST 'FAKE NEWS', JOURNALISM IS THE REAL LOSER March 2022
PAKISTAN’S NEW MEDIA CRACKDOWN THREATENS PRESS FREEDOM FEBRUARY 2022
JOURNALISTS' UNION CHALLENGES PECA ORDINANCE IN IHC February 2022
BARS TERM PECA ORDINANCE OPPRESSIVE, EXTRACONSTITUTIONAL February 2022
'MEDIA ACT BEING USED TO CURB FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.' ISLAMABAD HIGH COURT CHIEF JUSTICE ATHAR MINALLAH February 2022
FIVE-YEAR JAIL TERM FOR CRITICISING ARMY, JUDICIARY February 2022
PRESIDENT ARIF ALVI SIGNS PECA, ELECTIONS AMENDMENT ORDINANCES February 2022
“HISTORIC TRIAL” IN LONDON OF MAN ACCUSED OF PLOTTING TO KILL EXILED PAKISTANI BLOGGER January 2022
PAKISTAN EVENTS OF 2021 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT
CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS WHO INVESTIGATED JUDICIAL COLLUSION December 2021
UNEMPLOYMENT, INFLATION FORCE MEDIA WORKER TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN KARACHI November 2021
SOCIAL MEDIA THREATS TO PAKISTANI WOMEN JOURNALISTS HAS REACHED EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS November 2021
CRACKDOWN ON DISSENTING VOICES IN MEDIA: TWO DOZEN PAK JOURNALISTS PROSECUTED UNDER PECA IN TWO YEARS November 2021
RS500M FINE IF COMPANIES FAIL TO BLOCK ‘CONTENT’ October 2021
PRESS CLUBS TERM PMDA ‘MEDIA MARTIAL LAW’ September 2021
PAKISTAN’S GOVERNMENT WANTS TO IMPOSE CENTRALISED CENSORSHIP OFFICE September 2021
PAKISTAN SETS UP SPECIAL CELL IN KABUL TO FACILITATE VISAS FOR AFGHAN JOURNALISTS, FAMILIES August 2021
PAKISTAN’S SOCIAL MEDIA IS OVERFLOWING WITH HATE SPEECH AGAINST AHMADIS July 2021
MEDIA BODIES REJECT ORDINANCE AIMED TO ‘MUZZLE FREEDOM OF PRESS’ June 2021
MEDIA BODIES WELCOME SINDH ASSEMBLY'S DECISION TO PASS JOURNALISTS' PROTECTION BILL May 2021
INTERNET FREEDOM DECLINED IN PAKISTAN IN 2020, SAYS REPORT May 2021
PAKISTAN’S SHIAS FACE DOUBLE THREAT: EXTREMISTS AND THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT April 2021
ENTIRE EVIDENCE IN DANIEL PEARL CASE DOUBTFUL: SUPREME COURT March 2021
2020 'WORST YEAR IN PAKISTAN'S HISTORY' FOR PRESS FREEDOM, JOURNALISTS' UNION SAYS Jan 2021
IPI LAUNCHES CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION IN SOUTH ASIA ON SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS December 2020
ONE THIRD OF JOURNALISTS FACING LEGAL CASES AT RISK OF BEING CHARGED UNDER ATA: REPORT November 2020
UN EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS, RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN PAKISTAN September 2020
PAKISTAN: ACCUSATIONS OF BLASPHEMY CONTINUE TO ENDANGER LIVES August 2020
PAKISTAN'S LARGEST PROVINCE BANS 100 TEXTBOOKS FOR 'BLASPHEMOUS' CONTENT July 2020
ARMY TIGHTENS GRIP ON PAKISTAN AS IMRAN KHAN’S POPULARITY WANES June 2020
PAKISTAN: AHMADIS KEPT OFF MINORITIES COMMISSION May 2020
'VICTIM OF A SINISTER CAMPAIGN': PAKISTANI JOURNALISTS FACE RETRIBUTION EVEN IN EUROPEAN EXILE Apr 2020
IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS, PAKISTAN’S MEDIA IS PLAYING POLITICS-POLITICS Apr 2020
PM OKAYS RS 42MILLION FOR FORMATION OF DIGITAL MEDIA WING TO 'DEFEND GOVT' March 2020
SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY: SURVIVING PAKISTAN'S DEATH ROWFeb 2020
AIC WARNS SOCIAL MEDIA RULES WILL MAKE DIGITAL OPERATIONS 'EXTREMELY DIFFICULT' IN LETTER TO PM IMRAN Feb 2020
PARLIAMENTARY PANEL FINDS SINDH AS HUB OF FORCED CONVERSIONS Jan 2020
PAKISTAN NO 1 IN FACEBOOK CONTENT CENSORSHIP Nov 2019
'EXTREME FEAR AND SELF-CENSORSHIP': MEDIA FREEDOM UNDER THREAT IN PAKISTAN Nov 2019
PAKISTAN IS “NOT FREE,” FOR INTERNET FREEDOM Nov 2019
PAKISTAN'S MILITARY RIDES ROUGHSHOD OVER THE MEDIA Oct 2019
ایچ آر سی پی کی گلگت بلتستان پر رپورٹ میں حکومت پر شدید تنقید، خفیہ اداروں کو لگام دینے کا مطالبہ
PAKISTAN DENIES ENTRY TO CPJ'S STEVEN BUTLER, FORCES HIM TO RETURN TO US Oct 2019
اسلام آباد سے لاپتہ ہونے والے 27 سالہ بلاگر گئے کہاں؟
PAKISTANI CARTOONIST FIRED OVER PM CARICATURE Sep 2019
'SILENCED': PAKISTAN'S JOURNALISTS DECRY NEW ERA OF CENSORSHIP Aug 2019
AFTER A YEAR OF PRESS FREEDOM VIOLATIONS, RSF WRITES TO PAKISTAN’S PREMIER Aug 2019
PAKISTAN HIGH RISK COUNTRY FOR MEDIA PLURALISM: REPORT July 2019
UNDER SIEGE': FEAR AND DEFIANCE MARK LIFE FOR PAKISTAN'S HAZARAS July 2019
WHY PAKISTAN’S SHIAS ARE DISAPPEARING AND GOING INTO ‘SMALL, DARK CELLS’ July 2019
CONCERNS ON THE NEW GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO MONITOR ONLINE TRAFFIC June 2019
ASIA BIBI WAS RELEASED BUT ANOTHER CHRISTIAN COUPLE IS NOW ON DEATH ROW FOR SIMILAR BLASPHEMY CHARGES May 2019
THE RESISTANCE OF PAKISTANI JOURNALISM IS DYING — AND IT FRIGHTENS ME May 2019
CHRISTIAN COUPLE LYNCHING CASE: LHC ACQUITS TWO ACCUSED IN THE BRUTAL MURDER May 2019
FAMILIES OF FALLEN JOURNALISTS AWAIT JUSTICE May 2019
2018 SAW GREATER CONTROLS ON ONLINE FREE SPEECH, THREATS TO DATA PRIVACY IN PAKISTAN: REPORT Apr 2019
JOURNALISTS FACE INTIMIDATION, VIOLENCE’: PAKISTAN RANKS 139TH IN PRESS FREEDOM INDEX Apr 2019
PAKISTAN INVESTIGATING JOURNALISTS FOR POSTING KHASHOGGI’S PHOTO Mar 2019
PAKISTAN: ENDURING ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES Mar 2019
پمرا کے قیام کی منظوری اور حاکم وقت کے قصیدے کہنے سے انکار کرنے والی صحافت Feb 2019
IMRAN KHAN OR AYUB KHAN: IS PMRA THE NEW TOOL TO CURB FREEDOM OF PRESS AND CONTROL MEDIA? Feb 2019
72 JOURNALISTS MURDERED IN PAKISTAN SINCE 2002 Jan 2019
INFO MINISTRY SLASHES AD RATES FOR TV CHANNELS Dec 2018
PAKISTAN’S ARMY IS BEHIND AN UNPRECEDENTED CLAMPDOWN ON THE MEDIA Dec 2018
TWO PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY Dec 2018
PAKISTAN SEEMS TO HAVE RETURNED TO THE GLORIOUS DAYS OF CENSORSHIP: MOHAMMED HANIF Dec 2018
CASES OF MISSING PERSONS ON THE RISE IN SOCIETY, OBSERVES SHC Nov 2018
NO ONE CONVICTED AS 26 JOURNALISTS KILLED IN PAKISTANNov 2018
PAKISTAN’S INTERNET FREEDOM RANKING IS “NOT FREE.” Nov 2018
SENATE BODY ANNOUNCES ROADMAP FOR PROTECTING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION OCT 2018
TREASON TRIAL FOR PAKISTANI JOURNALIST SIGNALS NEW PRESSURE ON MEDIA OCT 2018
PAKISTAN HAS A GENOCIDAL OBSESSION WITH BLASPHEMY Sep 2018
FEARS OF THE FOURTH ESTATE: CURRENT CHALLENGES FOR THE PAKISTANI PRESS Sep 2018
IMRAN KHAN SHOWS HIS COWARDICE BY DROPPING PRINCETON PROF ATIF MIAN OVER AHMEDIA IDENTITY Sep 2018
THE CURIOUS CASE OF CHRISTIAN MEN GONE MISSING FROM A KARACHI NEIGHBOURHOOD Sep 2018
SOME OF PAKISTAN'S FINEST MILITARY MINDS HAVE BEEN AHMADI. CLERICS NEED TO STOP ABUSING THEM July 2018
MISSING PERSONS CASE: IHC JUDGE URGES ARMY CHIEF TO REIN IN SECRET AGENCIES’ OFFICIALS July 2018
WHAT IS BEHIND THE CRACKDOWN ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN PAKISTAN? July 2018
MEDIA PUSHED FOR OBJECTIVE POLL REPORTING July 2018
READY TO FIGHT ‘DARK FORCES’ FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: PFUJ July 2018
THE ASSAULT ON PAKISTAN MEDIA AHEAD OF VOTE July 2018
PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE ENDORSES BLASPHEMY LAWS July 2018
NON-MUSLIM LEADERS, WORSHIP PLACES CONTINUE TO VANISH AS PAKISTANIS KEEP FAILING JINNAH (Urdu reading) June 2018
DISRUPTION TO DAWN’S DISTRIBUTION CONTINUES ACROSS COUNTRY June 2018
PAKISTAN RELIEF AFTER ABDUCTED JOURNALIST GUL BUKHARI IS FREED June 2018
PAKISTAN: ALARMING CRACKDOWN AHEAD OF ELECTIONS FOR SITE June 2018
PAKISTAN’S DRACONIAN RAMADAN LAWS TAKE TOLL ON MINORITIES June 2018
MEDIA CRACKDOWN RAISES FEARS FOR PAKISTAN’S DEMOCRACY June 2018
THE STORY OF PAKISTAN'S 'DISAPPEARED' SHIAS June 2018
PAKISTAN AUTHORITIES BLOCK DISTRIBUTION OF OLDEST NEWSPAPER May 2018
PAKISTAN: CAMPAIGN OF HACKING, SPYWARE AND SURVEILLANCE TARGETS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS May 2018
IN BLOW TO MINORITIES, PAKISTANI COURT ORDERS CITIZENS TO DECLARE RELIGION MARCH 2018
ATTORNEY OF BLASPHEMY ACCUSED PATRAS MASIH RELEASES CASE FACT SHEET MARCH 2018
BLASPHEMY SUSPECT IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER ‘FALLING OFF’ FOURTH FLOOR OF FIA BUILDING Feb 2018
PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN PATRAS MASIH ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY IN LAHORE Feb 2018
PAKISTANI PROFESSOR’S ENDLESS BLASPHEMY TRIAL February 2018
PAKISTAN PROPOSES SAME SENTENCE FOR BLASPHEMERS, FALSE ACCUSERS February 2018
REMEMBERING PAKISTAN'S EMPOWERING HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ASMA JAHANGIR February 2018
RELATIVES PROTEST AS 'MISSING' MAN IS FOUND MURDERED OUTSIDE KARACHI February 2018
WHO CONTROLS PAKISTAN? July 2017
THE SECULAR MYTH June 2017
Speechless Republic June 2017
A poem about mortality of Free Speech in Pakistan (URDU) May 2017
What’s behind the ‘deal’? May 2017
Scenario (Urdu) May 2017
Mob lynching of Mashal Khan is silencing the Freedom of Speech at the campuses in Pakistan Apr 2017
Mashal Khan – Another victim of barbaric and misconceived blasphemy in Pakistan Apr 2017
How the Women Are Suffering for Not Speaking Up in Pakistan….. Apr 2017
The government of Pakistan, Judiciary, biased Media, and the Vigilantes – Pakistan’s Unholy Alliance against Freedom of ExpressionMarch 2017
DRACONIAN LAWS THREATEN PRESS FREEDOM IN PAKISTAN Jan 2017
GREAT PAKISTANIS OF 2016 Jan 2017
THE KIDNAPPING OF ZEENAT SHAHZADI August 2016
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Nov 2015