The farce of media freedom in Pakistan

The media in Pakistan united in March 2007 and joined lawyers in the movement opposing President Pervez Musharraf's dismissal of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, but in doing so, journalists faced unexpected repercussions. They were threatened, beaten, arrested and abducted.
Filmed before Musharraf declared a state of emergency in November 2007, independent broadcast journalist Kiran Khalid shows the dangers that surround journalists who criticize the government in her short documentary We Are Not Free. Khalid has reported on Pakistan in the past. She was one of the first American television journalists to be allowed into a Pakistani madrassa post-9/11, where she wrote about its ideology, purpose and teaching. She also visited Pakistan in 2006 on the six-month anniversary of the earthquake that hit northwest Pakistan and wrote about the reconstruction process.
A clip from Khalid's 10-minute documentary discusses the role of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), the agency that monitors the press, and the struggle to deliver news that the public needs to hear while adhering to PEMRA's rules.