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Journalist threatened

PESHAWAR: A tribal journalist received an anonymous threat over the telephone on July 22 for reporting on the situation in Khyber Agency. Mehboob Shah Afridi, general secretary of the Tribal Union of Journalists in Khyber Agency and correspondent for an Urdu daily, said on Sunday that he had received a phone call on Saturday night threatening to kill him and destroy his office if he did not stop reporting on the situation in Bara, the Khyber Agency headquarters. staff report
Source: Daily Times
Date:7/23/2006