Women's voices are vanishing from Pakistan's newsrooms. The latest Global Media Monitoring Project has revealed that, once heralded as the emerging voices of change, female reporters now constitute a mere 4% of news coverage in 2025, a precipitous drop from 16% in 2020. This decline is a persistent structural imbalance that continues to marginalise women from the spaces where national narratives are shaped.

For the most part, investigative journalism and high-stakes reporting remain overwhelmingly male........

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