SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Tribal Union of Journalists, South Waziristan Agency Unit, Saturday strongly condemned torturing of a tribal journalist allegedly by personnel of Frontier Corps (FC) in Wana, South Waziristan Agency.To condemn the act on the part of the personnel of the FC, a meeting of TUJ, South Waziristan Agency unit was held with Mohammad Roshan […]
QUETTA: The continuing kill-and-dump operations, rampant in Balochistan, have taken the life of another journalist. The bullet-riddled body of Express News correspondent Razzaq Gul was found dumped in a deserted area near Turbat town in Kech district on Saturday morning. According to journalist bodies based in Balochistan, this is the 17th journalist to have been […]
By Shehzad Baloch QUETTA: The bullet-riddled body of a journalist was found dumped in a deserted area near Turbat city in Kech district on Saturday morning. At least 17 journalists have been killed in Balochistan during the last three years. Relatives of Express News correspondent Razzaq Gul said that he had been kidnapped from near […]
KARACHI: Wivists, intellectuals, media persons, friends and fans joined hands to pay tribute to senior journalist Zubeida Mustafa at a programme organised by the Women Action Forum at the Karachi Press Club on Friday evening. The guest of honour, Zubeida Mustafa, who recently won the prestigious International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) Lifetime Achievement Award, was […]
Pakistani journalists are killed, unjustly detained, abducted, beaten and threatened by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, militants, tribal and feudal lords, as well as, some political parties that claim to promote democracy and the rule of law. Sixwere killed in the line of duty in Pakistan during 2011. For every journalist who has been deliberately […]
HYDERABAD: A large number of journalists and photographers protested against beating-up of two journalists outside the local press club on Tuesday. They chanted slogans against the Jamshoro administration as two journalists of a private TV channel, Aziz Palari and Ismail Barejo, were beaten up. They were residents of Nooriabad and Kotri.They demanded of the government […]
Sir: This is in reference to the Pakistani journalist killed. Being a journalist myself, I condemn the murder of a local Pakistani journalist, his brother and his friend, and call on authorities to immediately investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice. A group of about 20 armed men shot Aurangzeb Tunio, a TV reporter for […]
KARACHI: At an event organised by the Karachi Union of Journalists on Monday, audience members had the opportunity to meet four journalists who symbolised the civil society’s struggle against Ziaul Haq’s military dictatorship. Masoodullah Khan, Nasir Zaidi, Khawar Naeem and Iqbal Jafferi were flogged on May 13, 1978 for protesting for the freedom of the […]
KHAIRPUR – Wife of senior journalist of Nawa-I-Waqt Rabnawaz Siyal passed away on Sunday allegedly after a shock she got due to a police raid at her home and brutally torturing her husband and other family member. A large number of people including journalists and political and social leaders attended the funeral prayer. On the […]
BAJAUR AGENCY – Fata journalists have urged the government to take appropriate measures to ensures freedom of press in Fata and demanded immediate removal of all restrictions on media in the tribal areas. They warned if their demands were not accepted, they would start a protest movement in the tribal agencies. This was said by […]
LARKANA: The three police teams constituted to arrest the killers of a TV reporter, his brother and friend have failed to lay hands on the accused nominated in the FIR. Aurangzeb Tunio, reporter of a popular Sindhi news channel stationed in Lalurounk town, his brother Rustum Tunio and friend Deedar Khaskheli were shot dead by […]
CHARSADDA: Journalists Associations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) strongly condemned a police attack on journalists on Friday. Sher Ali Khan, correspondent for a news agency in Charsadda, along with a cameraman for private TV channel, Siraj Ali, were allegedly assaulted while covering a demonstration against loadshedding on Friday. The police snatched their cameras and tried to […]
Mugheri and Tunio tribes began fighting when Khushboo Mugheri eloped with Tanveer Tunio. KARACHI: The authorities claim that 40 suspects were detained in Aurangzaib alias Zaib Tunio’s murder case. Tunio, his younger brother Rustam and friend Deedar Khaskheli were gunned down in Lalu Raunk, Qambar-Shahdadkot on Thursday. Tunio, who had worked as a journalist for […]
ISLAMABAD: Writers, intellectuals and journalists on Thursday condemned the act of terrorism on the grave of progressive politician, intellectual and poet Ajmal Khattak. Noted poet Iftikhar Arif said that the attack on mausoleums is a barbaric act and no sane human being can think of it. “Ajmal Khattak was a respectable person and writer who […]
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