Articles by Pakistan Press Foundation
Curbs imposed on disseminating views of two banned sectarian organisations
(PPF/IFEX) – On 14 August 2001, the Pakistani government issued an ordinance under which printing, publishing or disseminating any material, or projecting any person convicted of a terrorist act or any banned organisation would be an offence punishable by up to six months’ imprisonment. However, the ordinance clarifies that “[a] factual news report made in […]
Weekly’s publishing license reinstated
(PPF/IFEX) – The publishing licence or declaration of the weekly “K-2”, published in Gilgit, Baltistan, in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, was reinstated on 27 July 2001. The declaration was restored almost a year after it was revoked in August 2000 on the charge of publishing “objectionable material.” In its editorial, the weekly thanked all […]
Four journalists released on bail
(PPF/IFEX) – Four journalists from the Abbotabad daily “Mohasib” who were charged under the blasphemy law in early June 2001 were released on bail on Wednesday 18 July. The four newsmen were released from District Jail, Abbottabad, and brought to the Abbottabad Press Club by journalists and friends in the form of a procession. The […]
Newspaper owner receives death sentence over two narcotics cases
(PPF/IFEX) – Special judge Syed Kazim Raza Shamsi of the Anti Narcotics Court today ruled in favour of a death sentence and a 1,000,000 Rs (approx. US$15,723) fine in each of the two narcotics cases against Rehmat Shah Afridi, owner of the English daily “Frontier Post” and the Urdu daily “Maidan”. Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) […]
Photographer beaten by police officers
(PPF/IFEX) – Hadi Sanghi, photographer for the Sindhi language daily “Kawish”, was beaten by police officers in the city of Larkana, in the southern province of Sindh, on 14 May 2001. Sanghi was covering the release from prison of Qadir Magsi, head of the nationalist political party Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party (STPP), along with his […]
Photographer arrested for providing photograph to AFP
(PPF/IFEX) – Police in the city of Bahawalpur in the Punjab province arrested Ahmed Nawaz Abbasi, correspondent for the Urdu daily “Nawa-i-Waqt”, early on the morning of Thursday 4 May 2001. He was arrested for providing the French news agency Agence France Press (AFP) a photograph of the corpse of a man who had died […]
Journalist abducted and severely beaten
(PPF/IFEX) – The following is a PPF press release: ISLAMABAD: Five unidentified people abducted Shakil Shaikh, chief reporter for the English-language daily “The News”, at gunpoint in broad daylight on 28 March 2001, in Pakistan’s capital city. His kidnappers beat him severely for three and a half hours before abandoning him in a deserted village […]
Four journalists held responsible for publication of blasphemous letter
(PPF/IFEX) – The following is a 9 March 2001 PPF press release: Four newsmen held responsible for publication of blasphemous letter Peshawar: The one-man tribunal of Justice Qaim Jan Khan of the Peshawar High Court, constituted by the government, held four staff members of The Frontier Post responsible for publication of the blasphemous letter which […]