LAHORE: The four-day 11th Mystic Music Sufi festival concluded on Sunday night amidst gaiety, fun and a lot of Sufi symphonies. There was fairly a good audience on the last day of the event. Jackets, sweaters and shawls were order of the night as Rafi Peer Cultural Complex is located at an open place with […]
KARACHI: There was no respite from targeted killings and sectarian slayings in Karachi on Sunday and 11 more people, including a man and his two sons, a son of a slain intelligence officer and a witness in a reporter’s murder case, were gunned down by terrorists. Seven people were injured in a clash between activists […]
On October 31, the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ) Pakistan was awarded a human rights award by a German organisation in a ceremony held in Berlin. The union president, Safdar Dawar, a native of Miramshah, North Waziristan, accepted the award on behalf of the union, his fellow journalists in Fata and all his colleagues who […]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in strongly condemning the murder of Javed Naseer Rind, whose body was found on November 5 near Ghazi Chowk, in Khuzdar, in central Balochistan. Rind, a senior sub-editor and columnist with the Urdu-language Daily Tawar, disappeared from his hometown […]
Journalist Asfandyar Abid Naveed, 35, a reporter for the daily “Akhbar-i-Khyber”, was killed and eight other journalists were injured when two blasts ripped through the military cantonment’s Khyber Supermarket, in a commercial and residential area of Peshawar, the capital city of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, late in the night on 11 June 2011. […]
Shafiullah Khan, 28, a trainee reporter at the daily “The News”, Peshawar, succumbed to critical wounds he received during two deadly blasts that ripped through the military cantonment’s Khyber Supermarket in a commercial and residential area of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan on 11 June. Khan is the second journalist […]
On May 31, 2011, the dead body of Syed Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistan Bureau Chief of “Asia Times Online” and South Asia Correspondent for Italian news agency Adnkronos International (AKI), was found in a canal, some 150 km from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, from where he was abducted two days earlier. His body is reported to […]
Nasrullah Khan Afridi, 38, a correspondent for state-run Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), the English-language daily “Statesman” and the Urdu-language daily “Mashriq” in Khyber tribal agency, was killed when an explosive device ripped through his vehicle on the night of May 10, 2011 in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan. […]
Wali Khan Babar, 29, reporter of Geo News, Pakistan’s largest private television news channel, was gunned down by unidentified armed men in Karachi on 13 January 2011. Babar received five bullets – two in his forehead, one in the jaw and two in his neck. He was killed shortly after covering an operation against drug-traffickers […]
LAHORE: Unidentified miscreants attacked senior journalist Muhammad Malick on late Saturday night. Malik remained unhurt but his car was damaged by firing. Following the incident, Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif took immediate notice of the mishap and ordered probe. The News
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