Pakistan Press Foundation

Rights groups appeal to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to take up cases of free expression violations targetting Bahraini journalists, bloggers and human rights defenders in an upcoming visit to the country.

(PPF/IFEX) – Eight print and electronic media professionals were injured in a bomb explosion outside the emergency ward of the Jinnah Hospital in Karachi on February 5, 2010. Four media employees were also injured by the angry mob after the explosion. The journalists were performing their professional duties at the hospital when the bomb went […]

Shop owners had received warnings not to sell “vulgar” videos.

Lahore Bar Association members stopped journalists from covering court proceedings in a murder case in which the former president of the association is the main suspect.

A reporter and camera operator for Dunya TV were assaulted by police officers who were demonstrating to demand an increase in their salaries.

Reporter Azaz Syed suspects an intelligence agency may be behind the incident because he had filed reports critical of the military.

Aijaz Ali, a cameraman for Sindh TV, was assaulted and detained by a police officer after trying to film one of the prisoners at the Mirpurkhas police station.

Attempts are being made to financially cripple the Jang Group, Pakistan’s largest media conglomerate.