UN panel finds ‘alarming’ media restrictions in Pakistan
A United Nations human rights panel has reached out to the Pakistan government to express its concerns over an “alarming pattern of restrictions” on freedom of expression in the country.The UN panel has informed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government that it has received information regarding a series of “alleged meritless charges” brought against some journalists and human rights defenders.The documents sent to the government by the panel include cases that have been dismissed as well as those in which journalists were questioned or threatened but not prosecuted.Last year, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a ‘White Paper on Global Journalism’ had listed five countries, including Pakistan, as the ‘Most Dangerous Countries for Practice of Journalism in the World’Th...