Pakistan Press Foundation released a year-end report which noted that despite the change in government, "little improvement has been seen in the state of press freedom".
In a country where the press routinely remains under threat and faces attacks from many fronts, the media in Pakistan operated on slippery grounds in 2022 with a flurry of cases against journalists, television channel closures, charged political rhetoric enabling attacks against the media, overreach by media regulatory bodies and the killing of two journalists,
According to the International Federation of Journalists, 67 media professionals have been killed this year while performing their jobs, with five Pakistani journalists being among them so far (IFJ). Remember, the year is not over yet. The statistics highlight the necessity for effective measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms of journalists because 2022 has