February 14, 2021
Will this conversation spark a larger discussion within the media about what impedes them from doing their jobs?
Hamid Mir’s show
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Geo News included a segment last week on Justice Qazi Faez Isa speaking to the attorney general about the media not being free and the erosion of democratic norms in Pakistan, during a case regarding local government elections. This segment of Mir’s show was posted on YouTube under the heading: Justice Qazi Faez Isa
nay sach duniya ko bata diya (has revealed the truth to the world). One can hardly ignore the glee underlying this statement. Mir, a man whose Twitter bio states that he still has “two bullets… as souvenirs from the enemies of media freedom,” used this as an opportunity to discuss the means used to silence journalists (threats, abductions etc) with his guest at the time, Rana Sanaullah. Mir pointed out that most past governments, including the one Sanaullah was part of, have imposed restrictio
By News deskISLAMABAD: The country is being destroyed in a systematic manner, Justice Qazi Faez Isa remarked during a Supreme Court hearing on local government elections on Thursday.He said he.
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February 5, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The country is being destroyed in a systematic manner, Justice Qazi Faez Isa remarked during a Supreme Court hearing on local government elections on Thursday. He said he won’t shy away from saying that the media is not free and that it is being controlled. The Supreme Court observed that dissolving local bodies without any reason was not only a crime but it also falls in category of high treason.
A two-member bench of the apex court comprising Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Maqbool Baqir heard a case pertaining to local bodies elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Justice Maqbool Baqir observed that ensuring local bodies polls was a constitutional requirement, adding that depriving the people of having local government system is like depriving them of their democratic right.
By News DeskISLAMABAD: The country is being destroyed in a systematic manner, Justice Qazi Faez Isa remarked during a Supreme Court hearing on local government elections on Thursday.He said he.
Justice Qazi Faez Isa questions state of media freedom in Pakistan
Pakistan
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa criticised the state of media freedom, democracy and governance in Pakistan during an apex court hearing on local government elections on Thursday.
The senior judge said he won’t shy away from saying that the media is not free and that it is being controlled, with real journalists being thrown out of the country.
Pakistan, he said, is being destroyed in a systematic manner. He said when media is destroyed, a country is destroyed. Tell me. Is media free in Pakistan? Justice Isa asked Attorney-General Khalid Javed Khan.