Human Rights in Pakistan and Coverage of the Press

Abstract

This research aims to explore the abject state of Human Rights in Pakistan. Human Rights have been considered important throughout the course of history. The present research was conducted to study the situation of Human Rights in Pakistan and Role of Press (1999-2020). The reason for going back to the year 2000 for this research was the imposition of Martial Law during this period and gross violations of Human Rights in Pakistan. The objective of this descriptive study was to explore the positive/negative role of print media vis vis the coverage of Human Rights in Pakistan.
The Universe for the present study are the most highly circulated and popular newspapers of Pakistan i.e. Daily Jang and Daily Dawn, the technique of systematic sampling was used. By Using SPSS to analyze and then the Descriptive method was used to clearly illustrate the findings of the research and the relationship among the data collected was also explored through statistical methods.
The findings of the study subsequently reveal that the Daily Jang in Pakistan, portrays human rights in a negative way and usually give very little space to the issues of violations of human rights in their daily editions. A detailed discussion about the findings and recommendations have also been made to improve the existing situation of Human Rights and the Role of the Print Media in Pakistan in the relevant portions of the study after concluding it.