Pak army guzzles media

Harsha Kakar Reporters Without Borders, an international organization monitoring freedom of press, ranked Pakistan as 139 out of a group of 180 countries in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index. Journalists in Pakistan are under threat and media outlets are chained. Journalists are fleeing the country after experiencing threats, kidnapping, torture and intimidation. The country’s most popular television channel, Geo TV, was forced off the air and distribution of Pakistan’s oldest newspaper Dawn disrupted only because it went against the … Continue reading Pak army guzzles media