Tag Archives: Journalists

KARACHI/LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has written to the International Cricket Council urging the sport’s global governing body to help expedite the visa process of Pakistani fans and journalists willing to visit India for the World Cup. “The Pakistan Cricket Board has again raised the matter of visas for the Pakistan fans and media with the ICC,” a PCB …

REPORTERS Without Borders (RSF) called upon the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday to drop contempt proceedings against two journalists working for The News and the newspaper’s owner for publishing a former judge’s leaked affidavit revealing alleged judicial collusion to deny bail to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam before the 2018 general election. “I verified my sources,” Ansar …

GENEVA: The UN on Friday criticised the Taliban’s increasingly harsh response to peaceful protests, including using live rounds, and warned that nearly all Afghan households weren’t getting enough to eat. “We call on the Taliban to immediately cease the use of force towards, and the arbitrary detention of, those exercising their right to peaceful assembly and the journalists covering the …

ISLAMABAD: As the clamour against the government’s move to regulate social media becomes louder, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), lawyers and civil society members have decided to launch a nationwide movement for getting the Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules revoked. Journalist unions, lawyers, and civil society organisations termed the recently notified rules unacceptable and urged the government …