Pakistan Information & News

Here is another rank list out in the press. This time this is on the freedom of the press. The Reporters sans frontières’ Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index - 2006, says that India is ranked 105 among 168 countries in the list.
These rankings mostly ignore the ground realities and the levels of conflict in a country and clinch criticism most of the time.

Neha has written the detail of the report here that is mainly based on the incidents between 1 September 2005 and 1 September 2006. The ranking report does not look at human rights violations but at just press freedom violations in different countries.
She writes as
I wonder if there is a similar index for comparing Press Freedom in different states and regions. It would be interesting to see if there is a correlation between degree of economic freedom, level of conflict and freedom of press. Further, one wonders [...]

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