October by-elections: Imran Khan wins most seats in “Khan vs All” contest

By Numan Wahab & Khalid Khattak While Imran Khan's win against a 13-party coalition–Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)–in October's by-elections for seven of the eight seats in the National Assembly is a testament to his growing...

A Decade of Impunity: Crimes against journalists remain high in Pakistan

Data Stories Report Freedom Network (FN), a leading independent media and civil liberties organization in Pakistan, has launched its annual impunity 2022 report according to which of 53 Pakistani journalists killed in the country between...

Data journalism free learning opportunity

Data Stories Report South Africa’s prominent media startup, Media Hack, has come up with an amazing learning opportunity for everyone interested in data journalism. The email based six-part series on the basics of data journalism is...

Covid-19 claims more lives of journalists than those killed in the line of duty...

By Khalid Khattak Covid-19 claimed more lives of Pakistani journalists than those killed for their work in the year 2021. As per Pakistan Media Freedom Report – 2021 by the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors...

Data Journalism Survey 2021 Is Now Open ڈیٹا جرنلزم سروے

یوروپین جرنلزم سنٹر(EJC)کےپروگرام datajournalism.com کے تحت دنیا بھر سےڈیٹا جرنلزم کمیونٹی کے لیےایک آن لائن سروے کا آغاز کیا ہے۔ سروے سے ڈیٹا جرنلزم سے وابستہ صحافیوں سے ڈیٹا جرنلزم فیلڈ، اس میں استعمال...

Understanding petrol prices increase/decrease!

By Khalid Khattak This is a fun post with an intention to promote #DataLiteracy and #DataVizLiteracy. The first graph shows increase and decrease in petrol price in Pakistan since January this year. The second graph...

Hate material cases in Punjab from January to July 2021

By Khalid Khattak As many as 249 cases were registered while 304 accused were arrested vis-à-vis cases pertaining to hate material in Punjab province during the first seven months of this year. This has been revealed...

Estimating the number of people who attended Khadim Rizvi’s funeral

By Rana Tanveer The funeral of Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief and firebrand orator, held on Nov. 21 is said to be the biggest funeral in the history of Lahore. Many took to...

Over 10 million voters added since 2018, ECP releases new stats

  By Muhammad Daud Khan Islamabad: After the 2018 General Elections, 10 million new electorates have been registered in two years as per the latest statistics released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on October...

Pakistan’s cellular subscribers’ data

  By Rana Tanveer In our latest video we have tried to highlight as to how one can look at annual cellular subscribers' data of Pakistan. The dataset contains stats from the years 2009 to 2019...