YouTube has been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012 for hosting the “blasphemous” Innocence of Muslims film. But now the country’s parliament has been asked to define what actually constitutes blasphemy. Sana Saleem has some suggestions
A Pakistani human rights organisation has called for an investigation into allegations that Facebook has a special “arrangement” with Pakistan, allowing the country’s government to interfere in content removal. Sara Yasin reports
Najam Sethi, chief editor of Pakistan's Daily Times, received death threats from militant group the Islamic Taliban Movement for publishing a cartoon in one of the paper’s sister publications, Aaj Kal. The cartoon depicted the leader of a radical...
Reporting from Pakistan’s tribal areas is getting more and more hazardous, says Haq Nawaz Khan Free, fair and fearless reporting for Pakistani journalists living in the war-ravaged tribal areas bordering Afghanistan is almost an impossible task....
Pakistan’s popular television news channel, Geo, resumed broadcasting on 21 January, after two months off air. Independent news networks had been prevented from broadcasting after President Musharraf declared a state of emergency last November, but...
President Musharraf's crackdown has taken its toll on Pakistan's already beleaguered media, writes Zubeida Mustafa On Tuesday 6 November, over 350 journalists assembled on a warm sultry afternoon on the lawns of the Karachi Press Club to decide...
Censorship has ranged from the ridiculous to the downright terrifying in the country. Will anything change?