Pakistan ranked at 159 out of 180 countries in an annual evaluation released Thursday by the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders which says media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram.
“There has been an overall deterioration linked to very different factors, with information wars, and action by non-state groups acting like news despots,” said the head of the Paris-based group, Christophe Deloire.
The Reporters Without Borders 2015 World Press Freedom Index stated that there were 3,719 violations of freedom of information in 180 countries in 2014 …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
