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Khairpur police arrest journalist’s killers

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SUKKUR: The Khaipur police claimed they arrested on Wednesday the culprits who had murdered a local journalist 20 days ago.A journalist of Khairpur Nasir Aftab along with ASP City Masood Bangash, addressed a press conference here. He said journalist Jeewan Arain was shot dead by motorcyclists 20 days earlier in the limits of Gambat town. […]


Murdered journalist laid to rest

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SUKKUR: Journalist Jeewan Arain, who had been killed the other day, was laid to rest in Khairpur. His funeral was attended by hundreds of protesting journalists while rallies condemning his murder were taken out across the province. The President of Federal Union of Journalists, Afzal Butt, and Secretary of the PFUJ, Khurshid Abbasi, condemned the […]


Journalist killed in Khairpur

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SUKKUR: Three unidentified motorcyclists gunned down a local journalist in Khairpur on Wednesday.According to reports, local journalist Jeewan Arain was on the way to Gambat city of Khairpur from Khohra with a friend on a motorcycle when armed men on two motorcycles intercepted his bike at Link Road, Khohra and shot him dead and then […]


Two journalists gunned down two days apart in Punjab

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Two more journalists have been killed in Pakistan, bringing the number murdered since 28 August to four. The latest victims were gunned down two days apart in Hafizabad, in the southern province of Punjab. Nadeem Haider, a reporter for the Urdu-language Daily Dunya, was gunned down in the Kaliki Mandi area of Hafizabad on 3 […]


Follow the legal course on journalists’ killings

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The number of killings and harassment of media people in Pakistan is the highest in the world, even greater than what it is in war zones By Aoun Sahi Pakistan remained one of the deadliest nations in the world for the journalist with 90 journalists killed in the country since 2000. The situation appears unlikely […]