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The Punjab Defamation Act 2024 has been challenged in the Lahore High Court. The petitioners claim that the new defamation law contradicts the existing legal framework and was hastily enacted without proper consultation with journalists and media organizations. [9] [10]
The law of Pakistan (in media) maintains a hybrid legal system for independent journalism, while it prohibits media bias or misleading information under certain constitutional amendments as described by the country's constitution. Media crime which is described by the country's criminal codes is recognized as an unlawful act.
According to Defamation Prohibition Law [full citation needed] (1965), defamation can constitute either civil or criminal offence. As a civil offence, defamation is considered a tort case and the court may award a compensation of up to NIS 50,000 to the person targeted by the defamation, while the plaintiff does not have to prove a material damage.
Women in Pakistan came forward with allegations of sexual harassment as the MeToo movement took hold. Now, they're facing defamation lawsuits They Accused a Pakistani Megastar of Sexual Harassment.
A new law in Pakistan aimed at regulating social media content has angered journalism groups and rights activists, which say it is aimed at curbing press freedom and called on Friday for ...
There are federal criminal law statutory prohibitions covering all the common-law exceptions other than defamation, of which there is civil law liability, as well as terrorist threats, [311] [312] making false statements in "matters within the jurisdiction" of the federal government, [313] speech related to information decreed to be related to ...
Though the Pakistani media had to work under military dictatorships and repressive regimes, which instituted many restrictive laws and regulations for media in order to 'control' it, the media was not largely affected. The laws are, however, detrimental to democracy reform, and represent a potential threat to the future of Pakistan and ...
On Pakistani Blasphemy law, Masood Ashraf Raja; Pakistan: Religious freedom in the shadow of extremism, CSW briefing, 2011; Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan; Once a blasphemer always a blasphemer; Pakistan: Murderer Revered for Defending Blasphemy Law; Abbas, Shemeem Burney. Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws: From Islamic Empires to the Taliban.