This mentality is reflective of society’s unfortunate tendency to marginalise women.

Continued escalation means making a point beyond demonstration of capability.

Land grabbers continue their loot and plunder on Karachi’s outskirts. Only this time, the process is far stealthier.

THERE is a long and ignominious history of the state, or powerful elements within it, declaring politically active...

A NEWS item that appeared in Dawn’s ‘Fifty years ago’ section yesterday, described a 24-hour strike by Karachi...

History will remember Mirza for the unfortunate precedent he set by abrogating the constitution.

FROM baseless treason cases, to inquiries against journalists for displaying images of Jamal Khashoggi on social...

The campaign against Dawn post its 2016 story was an act of malice with Gen Bajwa partly at fault.

Pemra seems to have become a handmaiden to repressive forces micro-managing print and electronic media.

Dawn believes it handled the story in a professional manner and carried it only after verification.

میجر جنرل آصف غفور نے میڈیا مالکان سے ملاقات میں میڈیا کے مسائل حل کرنے کا وعدہ کیا، حکومت کو پرواہ نہیں، مجیب الرحمان شامی

Censorship, in any form or age, is ultimately soul-shattering.

ISLAMABAD: Former chairman Senate Mian Raza Rabbani Wednesday said it was unfortunate that in the run up to elections, attempts were being made to intimidate the print and electronic media by way...

State’s desire to bring the media to heel is most clearly manifested in its arbitrary, unacceptable and illegal strategy

Combating anti-Pakistan ‘conspiracies’ should not mean stifling its media.

Global network expresses concern over “highhanded use of coercive measures to curtail the independence of the press”.

Journalists vow to resist curbs on media; politicians, lawyers, civil society activists visit protest camps.

PM’s focal person calls out institutional failure of FIA.

AN adversarial relationship between a free media and the state and public officials it seeks to cover is necessary...

People of Pakistan cannot be straitjacketed into a one-size-fits-all concept of nationalism.

Motive behind murder of Pad Eidan Press Club president and Awami Akhbar journalist still unknown.

Press freedom cannot be gauged by body bags alone. If it was, Pakistan would rank among the safer countries.

AT a time when critical voices are increasingly being branded ‘subversive’, even a passing observation, made in...

PAKISTAN will soon be going into election campaign mode, and already the engines of fake news are working overtime....

STATE-run media can appear to be an anomaly in the age of the internet and in an era of social media, but there are...

THE PTI government’s intentions with regard to the media are rightly fuelling a growing sense of unease. At a...

All parties must pledge to uphold net neutrality, ensure accessibility and protect personal data privacy.

IF evidence of the perils of being a journalist in Pakistan today were still needed, the IPI’s Press Freedom Hero...

Steven Butler's passport confiscated by Lahore airport authorities, CPJ statement says.

The raid on Maktaba-i-Daniyal is as disturbing as it is baffling.

IN an incident that has become an all-too-familiar tale, Express Tribune journalist Bilal Farooqui was picked up and...

A Twitter campaign was launched under the hashtag #ArrestAntiPakjournalists — with over 28,000 tweets published.

Clause after clause in the proposed law is illustrative of the authoritarian mindset that underlies it.

Asma spoke truth to power, and we must continue her legacy.

The threat has evolved from actual physical harm towards a more insidious form of persecution.

IT would be comical — if it weren’t for the fact that it so perfectly encapsulates how shrunken the space for...

While Twitter trends may be artificial, hashtag merchants are real people.

The press, as the fourth pillar of state, has the responsibility of a watchdog.

A government-controlled body to run the affairs of newspapers is not in sync with the modern concepts of rule.

On Friday, PPP Punjab president Qamar Zaman Kaira’s son was killed in a car accident, along with his friend.

Journalists in Pakistan who dissent from the official narrative are feeling the brunt not only of the state and its bad

All this is happening under the watchful eye of a democratically elected state and its law-enforcement apparatus.

Musharraf says he owns no property in Pakistan.

After Bilal Farooqi and Absar Alam, Toor is the third journalist to be booked on similar charges in the past few days.

"What law stops a journalist from interviewing a politician?" asks Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.

PTI govt should consider the possibility that one day it too may want an independent media to tell the story like it is.

NEWS of a court’s order to release Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Hussein will come as a relief to many. His family,...

Pakistan has never been a Myanmar or a Gulf monarchy where daily newspapers do little reporting.

No valid reason has been advanced to justify the unification of the media laws.

As the Lahore edition of Dawn enters its twentieth year, we have much to look back to with a degree of satisfaction.

THE culture wars appear to be heating up once again as regulators and the superior judiciary wade awkwardly into the...

Against sane advice, PTI government has moved ahead with its agenda to tighten its control over the media.