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Daily Archives: November 11, 2012

Two journalists gunned down in Karachi

KARACHI: Two journalists of a local weekly were killed Saturday in a targeted attack, newspaper reports said. The Nation said men on a motorbike sprayed bullets on Syed Tariq Hussain and Aslam Raja near Saifi College and fled. Police arrived at the scene and rushed the journalists to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where they were pronounced […]


One cameraman dead, several others injured in Quetta suicide bomb

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At least one Pakistani journalist was killed and others were injured in a suicide bombing at a hospital in Quetta today, according to international news reports. Details are still emerging, and some of the injured are reported to be in critical condition, but Pakistani colleagues tell CPJ that a senior Samaa TV cameraman, Malik Arif, […]


Journalist killed in suicide blasts in Kohat

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34-year-old reporter Azmat Ali Bangash was killed along with 41 other people when two suicide bombers blew themselves up amidst a crowd of displaced persons collecting relief supplies in Kohat district of province Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Bangash worked for Pakistan Television (PTV), Samaa TV and Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency. According to press reports, the […]


Journalist’s mutilated body found by police

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Police found the scarred body of journalist Ghulam Rasool Birhamani, 30, a reporter for the daily “Sindhu Hyderabad”, at a deserted place two kilometres from Dadu. Dr. Mohammad Hashim Thahim, medical superintendent of Johi Taluka hospital, said that the journalist’s death was caused by fatal injuries to the head. He also found torture marks on […]


Media worker killed while covering Ahmadi mosque attacks in Lahore

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Ejazul Haq, a technician employed by Lahore-based City-42 TV, was shot dead while helping to cover attacks by “Punjab Taliban” on two mosques of the minority Ahmadi sect in Lahore, on 28 May 2010. Reporters Without Borders offers its condolences to Haq’s colleagues and family, including his widow and two children. At least 80 people […]


Reporter gunned down in Balochistan

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Faiz Muhammad Sasoli, a reporter based in Khuzdar District, in the southwestern province of Balochistan, was killed in a hail of submachine gun fire on 27 June 2010. Sasoli, who worked for the “Aaj Kal” daily newspaper and the Independent News of Pakistan agency, had escaped two previous murder attempts. His death brings to six […]


Two media workers killed, several others injured in suicide bomb blast in Quetta

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Two media staffers were killed and seven others were injured in a suicide attack on September 3, 2010 on a procession in Quetta, the capital city of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province. At least 64 people were killed and over 160 injured in the blast. The procession was organised by the Shiite Imamia Students’ Organisation to […]


Journalist killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan border region

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Mujeeb ur Rehman Saddiqui, a 39-year-old senior reporter at “Daily Pakistan” Newspaper was killed on 17 September 2010 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a northwest province of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan and is one of the world’s most dangerous locales for journalists. Gunmen opened fire on Saddiqui and he died on the way to the hospital. Conflict between […]


Baloch journalist kidnapped and found dead a month later

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Journalist Abdul Hameed Hayatan, 26, popularly known as Lala Hameed Baloch, was abducted from the southwestern port city of Gwadar on 25 October 2010 and shot dead. Hayatan was a reporter and photographer for the “Karachi” and “Tawar” dailies and for Royal TV and the president of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), Gwadar Chapter. Hayatan’s […]


Journalists dead in twin suicide blasts

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Two tribal journalists, Abdul Wahab, a reporter from “Express News” TV channel, and Pervez Khan, a reporter with the “Daily Nawa-i-Waqt” and “Waqt News” TV channel, were killed on 6 December 2010 in a suicide blast that killed 50 people and injured 120 in the Ghalanai district. Ghalanai is the administrative headquarters of the Mohmand […]


Journalists dead in twin suicide blasts

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Two tribal journalists, Abdul Wahab, a reporter from “Express News” TV channel, and Pervez Khan, a reporter with the “Daily Nawa-i-Waqt” and “Waqt News” TV channel, were killed on 6 December 2010 in a suicide blast that killed 50 people and injured 120 in the Ghalanai district. Ghalanai is the administrative headquarters of the Mohmand […]


Authorities must act to stop Balochistan murders, says IFJ

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Mohammad Khan Sasoli, a correspondent with Daily Balochistan Times and DawnNews TV, and president of the Khuzdar Press Club, was shot dead in Khuzdar, Balochistan province, in Pakistan’s south-west, on December 14. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), an IFJ affiliate, reports that Sasoli was shot by two unidentified motorcyclists as he stepped out […]


Journalist shot and killed

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Misri Khan Orakzai, a senior journalist, president of the Hangu Union of Journalist (HUJ) and reporter for a number of newspapers, was shot dead by three unidentified men in the early morning hours of September 14, 2010. The shooting took place in front of the press club in the town of Hangu, in the militancy […]


Geo reporter injured in Karachi violence

KARACHI: Zille Hyder, a Geo TV reporter was injured in an armed clash between two groups at Sohrab Goth Sunday, according to a brief post on the channel’s website www.geo.tv. Hyder, shot in the arm, was rushed to a local hospital where he was reported to be out of danger. Violence continued to rage in […]