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Pakistan lifts TikTok ban for the second time      BBC correspondent leaves China after pressure and threats      PFUJ submits charter of demands to federal government      PM constitutes committee to frame rules for regulating social media      Disc jockey shot dead in Philippines      Journalist gunned down in Sukkur      Women journalists demand 33 percent representation in PFUJ and other bodies      Court orders government to ban social media app TikTok      Women quitting journalism in Afghanistan due to security fears          10:04 AM Jou...

PARTICIPANTS of the Aurat March chant slogans on Monday evening.—Reuters KARACHI: “My name is Neha and on this International Women’s Day I appeal to the government to end forced conversions and pass strong legislation so that this does not happen to another girl,” said the visibly emotional teenager as she gasped for air. Trying to gather courage as she addressed a subdued crowd and reporters at the Aurat March event on Monday, she said, “I was 14 years old. What was my fault? My family, my education was taken away from me.” The young girl was abducted from Karachi’s Ittehad Tow...

PARTICIPANTS of the Aurat March chant slogans on Monday evening.—Reuters KARACHI: “My name is Neha and on this International Women’s Day I appeal to the government to end forced conversions and pass strong legislation so that this does not happen to another girl,” said the visibly emotional teenager as she gasped for air. Trying to gather courage as she addressed a subdued crowd and reporters at the Aurat March event on Monday, she said, “I was 14 years old. What was my fault? My family, my education was taken away from me.” The young girl was abducted from Karachi’s Ittehad Tow...

“SOMETIMES I think they just wanted to scare me, but then I think maybe they wanted me dead,” says Bisma*, a journalist well known for her progressive views. It was one evening in February 2019 when several shots were fired right outside her house. She has never spoken about the incident to anyone except her immediate family, her boss and the head of the media company she works for — all of whom believe it was due to her reporting. It had been a year since Bisma had done a particular story and started getting threatening calls telling her to “watch out”, the tone in each subsequent ...

Women journalists in Pakistan work in a hostile environment; only the fittest can survive. “SOMETIMES I think they just wanted to scare me, but then I think maybe they wanted me dead,” says Bisma*, a journalist well known for her progressive views. It was one evening in February 2019 when several shots were fired right outside her house. She has never spoken about the incident to anyone except her immediate family, her boss and the head of the media company she works for — all of whom believe it was due to her reporting. It had been a year since Bisma had done a particular story and sta...