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Daily Archives: May 25, 2013

‘Restricted movement of foreign journalists’: Ministry implementing directives to discourage propaganda against Pakistan

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Ministry of Interior is implementing its directives on restricted movement of foreign journalists to ensure that propaganda against Pakistan in international media is discouraged which is hampering investment in the country, an official of Interior Ministry said while requesting anonymity. Declan Walsh, a New York Times journalist based in Pakistan for nine years, was handed […]


Gone missing: Two months on, family still struggles to find Baloch journalist

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KARACHI: Haji Abdul Razzaq Baloch, 42, made sure he attended every protest held for the people who went missing in Balochistan. “These are our brothers who have gone missing. Some day when I would be gone, you would have to do the same,” the tall man with a bushy moustache would say. Little did he […]


Ostracized: The avoidable life sentence

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ISLAMABAD: She is 36. It is almost 14 years since her life changed for the worse. What was supposed to be the happiest moment of her life became the nightmare she had never imagined. She was in labour, about to give birth to her first baby. The labour became prolonged. The daai kept saying it […]


Job hazard: Journalist shot dead ‘for helping police’

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MULTAN: A newspaper reporter was shot dead on Friday in Bahawalnagar apparently for helping police in an investigation. Two roadside vendors were also injured. One of them later succumbed to his injuries. The other being treated at the district headquarters hospital, was said to be in critical condition. No one has been arrested. Police said […]