LAHORE: Pakistan’s mass media are known to be robust and restrained at the same time. Nation’s print, electronic and social media have survived a repeated onslaught on their freedom and even threats on their survival throughout the history of the country as an independent state.
A new book, From Terrorism to Television: Dynamics of Media, State, and Society in Pakistan, published by Routledge (London and India), narrates this story with scholarly and well-researched themes contributed by university professors, researchers, and journalists from Pakistan, England, Australia and the United States.
Co-editors of the book, Qaisar Abbas and Farooq Sulehria, , in the first chapter, have set the tone of the volume with a sound theoretical framework and a thorough survey of the evolution of the media in Pakistan within the context of freedom of expression.
Mr Abbas is a media scholar and former professor and an assistant dean based in the United States. Mr Sulehria, a known journalist in Pakistan, is an assistant professor at the Beaconhouse National University (BNU).
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