Sindh Provisional Assembly passes journalists protection bill
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The Sindh Assembly passed a landmark law on Friday to promote, protect and ensure the independence, impartiality, safety and freedom of expression for journalists and other media practitioners.
Pakistan ranks 145 out of 180 countries on the media rights watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2021 World Press Freedom Index. Reports of journalists being intimidated, threatened, beaten, abducted, harassed or even killed are not uncommon in the country, which stands as the fifth most dangerous place for the profession, according to the International Federation of Journalists.
In Sindh alone, at least one journalist has been killed in the current year. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, at least two were picked up and then released and one killed in 2020. At least 25 FIRs have reportedly been lodged against various journalists in Sukkur al
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The Sindh Assembly passed a landmark law on Friday to promote, protect and ensure the independence, impartiality, safety and freedom of expression for journalists
KARACHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has reiterated its commitment to meet the new challenges facing the media and said that all kinds of political, state, non-state and economic pressures on the media and freedom of the press would not be tolerated.
Measures like new PEMRA directives, the forcible removal of newspaper stalls, including unannounced raids on media outlets and newspaper printing presses, were serious obstacles to the promotion of independent media. These views were expressed by CPNE President Arif Nizami at the annual general meeting on Tuesday
The general meeting was attended by a large number of CPNE members from across the country. The meeting discussed the issues related to freedom of expression, freedom of the press, especially the print media. Despite the approval of the 85/15 payment formula by the federal government, the PID has slowed down the direct payment of advertising dues.
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has welcomed the presentation of the landmark
Sindh Protection of Journalists and Other Media Protection Bill 2021 in the provincial assembly of Sindh. PPF also welcomed that a similar bill has also been presented in Pakistan’s National Assembly where it has been sent to the Human Rights Committee for consideration.
The bill presented in Sindh envisages the creation of a of a robust, inclusive and autonomous
Commission on Safety of Journalists and Other Media Professionals comprising government duty bearers as well as media stakeholders including Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS), Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA), Sindh Commission on Information Commission and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).