Digital laws and AI

In the words of Laurie Anderson, Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. The digital media landscape of Pakistan in recent years has undergone a seismic shift, with legal ambiguities, state-imposed content c...

March Blocked

Yet again, Pakistan finds itself making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The legal action taken against the organisers of the Aurat March in Islamabad, reportedly for violating Section 144, is another example of how little s...

23-Mar-2025 Read More

Peca and the press

The arrest of journalist Farhan Mallick and his subsequent four-day physical remand at the hands of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is yet another troubling sign of the shrinking space for press freedom in Pakistan. This ...

23-Mar-2025 Read More

An inheritance of her own

In what is a rare pleasant turn, Pakistan has seen a series of judicial rulings recently that uphold women’s rights. In a landmark decision -- also rare and unexpected -- the Federal Shariat Court has affirmed women’s inheri...

23-Mar-2025 Read More

PPP HR cell concerned over gross misuse of Peca law

ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Cell of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) condemns the arrest of Farhan Mallick of Raftar Media in Karachi, demands his release and transparent investigations into the matter. “The state agencies ...

23-Mar-2025 Read More

Muzzled voices

A new era of censorship is upon us. The FIA’s arrest of journalist and founder of media agency Raftar, Farhan Mallick, apparently for the digital platform’s content, is the latest incident that strikes at the heart of freedo...

22-Mar-2025 Read More