Reporters Without Borders is extremely shocked by the murders of two journalists in the past week in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh. The bodies of Tariq Kamal, a 35-year-old reporter with a local Sindhi-language newspaper, and his friend Fawad Shaikh, 31, were found by police two days ago in the provincial capital, Karachi. The […]
SUKKUR: A journalist, his brother and a friend were gunned down in their office by armed persons in Lalo Raink in Kambar-Shahdadkot district on Thursday. Sources said a girl Khushboo Mughairi had eloped with her paramour Tanveer Tunio four days back. The eloping led to tensions between Tunia and Mughairi clans and enraged Mughairis ousted […]
Salis bin Perwaiz Karachi: Police found the bullet-riddled bodies of a journalist and his friend dumped under the Love Lane Bridge in Pak Colony early on Wednesday morning. The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where post-mortems showed the two were severely tortured before being killed. Bullet wounds to their heads were described […]
Mehmood-ul-Hassan Khan, correspondent of Urdu-language television channel “Dunya News” and Waheed-ur-Rehman, correspondent of Pashto-language television channel “Khyber News” were injured in a blast on May 9, 2012, at the shrine of famous Pashto language poet and leader of a political party Ajmal Khattak in Nowshehra district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa province of Pakistan. According to press reports, […]
Ayesha Haroon There used to be a certain reserve around the business of news. Whether great journalism or mere propaganda, the reports in a newspaper were seldom hysterical. Of course, that changed when more Urdu newspapers started competing with each other – the emotive headlines are still remembered by many – but the text of […]
PESHAWAR: A local journalist was kidnapped from the Grand Trunk Road and thrashed by armed men before he was thrown near the district and session courts in an injured condition on Monday. Zahid Merokhel, a reporter of Urdu daily Nayee Baat, was on his way to office when armed men travelling in a white pick-up […]
PML-N rallies turn chaotic GUJRANWALA/KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) sponsored protest rallies Sunday ñ aimed at denouncing Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and demanding for his immediate resignation ñ quickly turned chaotic, according to reports. The PML-N took out a large number of processions and demonstrations across the country Sunday, but internal scuffles, lack […]
Nisar Mehdi KARACHI – The Nawaz-League’s Sunday anti-government rally, “go-Gilani-go”, was utterly disorganised; not only did PML-N workers resort to vandalism, they also went violent, leaving a number of journalists wounded, some of them fatally, including a Waqt News television’s cameraman. The media boycotted the rally over the PML-N workers’ torture on a group of […]
By Nawaz Khuhro KARACHI: Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Media Sharmila Farooqi has said that press freedom is necessary for strengthening democracy, so all the stakeholders should play their due role in solving the problems faced by journalists. “There is dire need to end impunity of crimes against journalists,” she said while addressing a […]
Anil Datta Karachi: A mechanism is needed to ensure that laws pertaining to the working of the press are implemented without fear or favour, without being selective, to the satisfaction of the media, the public, and the administrative machinery. This was the consensus among speakers at a panel discussion on the media law, sponsored by […]
Anil Datta Karachi: Lauding the sacrifices and struggle of journalists for press freedom in Pakistan, Raja Shafqat Abbasi, chairman Press Council of Pakistan, suggested setting up a national body to ensure that only trained and genuine individuals entered this profession. This, he said, would preclude the entry of impostors into the profession who were there […]
Amin Ahmed ISLAMABAD: While journalists and media organisations are all set to enthusiastically observe and celebrate ‘World Press Freedom Day’ on Thursday, a new report released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) may leave them with very few reasons to do so. The report alarmingly ranks Pakistan as “the second most […]
By Fazal Khaliq SWAT: Though the freedom of the press in Pakistan has always remained in jeopardy, the situation in conflict-hit areas is particularly intense. With four journalists killed in Swat during the mayhem, and several others being detained or facing threats from militants, they are living a life of peril, risk and hazard. Moreover, […]
UNITED NATION – Top UN officials Thursday highlighted the power of press freedom to spark social and political change and to hold governments accountable, while calling for creating the conditions that allow journalists to perform their work safely. “A free press gives people access to the information they need to make critical decisions about their […]
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