ABSTRACT

This chapter offers the views of three known Pakistani communication experts and journalists on journalists’ working conditions, code of ethics, and the nature of freedom of expression in the country. These are I. A. Rehman, a senior journalist; Dr Mehdi Hasan, a former dean of communication; and Eric Rahim, a former journalist who became an academic scholar in England. In a unique format, responding to the same questions, these scholars offer their perspectives on the dynamics of the media, state, and society at large.