In an interview for NayaDaur, the well known Pakistani journalist and fashion designer Mohsin Sayeed has lamented that today censorship in Pakistan is worse than in Gen. Musharraf’s time. I have personal experience of this. Hardly any Indian newspaper publishes my articles, and no Pakistani newspaper does (earlier they used to). Probably they have been […]
61SharesPM Imran Khan recently said he has stopped reading newspapers due to ‘negative coverage’ of his government. Muhammad Ziauddin argues that before assuming power, PTI promised media freedom. But after winning the elections and taking over the reins of the government the ruling party seems to have completely abandoned this part of its manifesto as […]
12SharesISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Friday formed a sub-panel to fix responsibility for the undeclared censorship imposed on Pakistan’s media. In the meeting, chaired by Senator Mustafa Khokar, the senators reached the conclusion that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority’s (Pemra) chairman and officials […]