Pakistan

The PMA have issued a letter to Pakistan's Prime Minister calling for the immediate release of Geo TV CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman.

This week's PMA Global Call Out sees us all working in new ways. Many of us are now working from home in a world that quite suddenly feels very different. Yet the challenges facing media freedom continue.

Initial hopes for improvements to media freedom in Pakistan, under the leadership of Imran Khan, appear to have receded. In recent months the country’s media landscape has been faced with numerous changes and challenges.

Journalists and media houses are facing an unprecedented level of threats and restrictions,  which have been intensifying ahead of the country’s elections later this month.

India is a country where freedom of speech has long been valued. But support for media freedom has to be in our actions, not just our words. Sadly, it seems that media freedom in India is changing.

It is with great concern that PMA notes the current unlawful blocking of Pakistan’s largest TV network Geo.

The Public Media Alliance adds its voice to the Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ) call to reinstate access to the television channel across parts of Pakistan.

We are pleased to announce our latest project to strengthen the capacity of South Asian news media to report on terrorism, violence and hate speech.

Safety remains a serious concern as hostility towards journalists continues to rise.

The Public Media Alliance urges the Pakistani Government to rigorously investigate a reported abduction attempt on Azaz Syed, a senior correspondent at Geo TV in Islamabad on 2 June.