‘Notices, cases, red lines and violence’ put media in a bind

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s media is caught in a bind — squeezed simultaneously by legal pressure, physical violence, digital harassment and financial coercion. That is the gist of a recent report, released by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) ahead of World Press Freedom Day 2026, documenting at least 233 incidents of journalists being targeted between January 2025 and April 2026. The violations include 67 assaults, 67 criminal complaints, 11 arrests, 11 detentions and three abductions. The Paki...

By none@none.com (Dawn Report)