/tags/independent-urdu en /node/1793066/pakistan <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/124566">Arab News Pakistan</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Fri, 2021-01-15 09:06</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> ISLAMABAD: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) this week asked the Pakistani government to disown a major online smear campaign against the Urdu-language services of two British media outlets, the BBC and The Independent newspaper, and to prosecute those who have threatened their journalists.<br /> Thousands of Pakistani Internet users have called for boycotts of the two services and threatened the outlets’ journalists in the course of a two-week-old hate and defamation campaign.<br /></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2021/01/15/2428986-1515355263.jpg" width="900" height="530" alt="" title="Journalists stand maintaining social distancing in a demonstration to mark the World Press Freedom Day during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad on May 3, 2020. (AFP/File)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/Pakistan">Pakistan</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/rsf">RSF</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/pakistani-journalists">Pakistani journalists</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/reporters-without-borders">Reporters Without Borders</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/independent-urdu">Independent Urdu</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bbc-urdu">BBC Urdu</a></div></div></div> Fri, 15 Jan 2021 06:17:17 +0000 fatimah.amjad 1793066 at