By: Amanullah Kasi QUETTA: The Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) and Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) held demonstrations on Friday in protest against the killing of journalist Mukarram Khan Atif and kidnapping of four people belonging to the Hazara community. In their separate demonstrations near the press club, members of the BUJ and activists of the […]
By: A.G. Noorani IN South Asia the law of defamation hangs over the press like the sword of Damocles. It is of colonial origin, understandably. What is inexcusable is that while the country of its origin Britain has improved the law, South Asia continues to hug its colonial legacy. Every civilised society needs a law […]
Amanullah Kasi QUETTA: The Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) and Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) held demonstrations on Friday in protest against the killing of journalist Mukarram Khan Atif and kidnapping of four people belonging to the Hazara community. In their separate demonstrations near the press club, members of the BUJ and activists of the HDP […]
Journalist Atif was praying when men fired at him thrice, one of bullets pierced his body and injured Imam also. Words — whether spoken or written — have become one of the most dangerous commodities in our country, as the threat for those who live off them grows. The cold-blooded killing of journalist Mukkaram Khan […]
The journalists fraternity from Khyber Paktunkhwa and FATA have demanded a judicial inquiry into the murder of tribal journalist Mukarram Khan and called for providing full protection to working journalists, especially in tribal areas. To condemn the brutal killing of tribal journalist, Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUj) and Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ) held a […]
Faiz Muhammad CHARSADDA: Mukaram Khan Atif, a journalist from Mohmand Agency, was gunned down in a mosque in Shabqadar on Tuesday. According to police, he was offering Maghrib prayer when two men entered the mosque in Pahlawan Gilla and opened fire on him. He suffered head injuries and was taken to a local hospital where […]
Dr Ikramul Haq “Every citizen shall have the right to have access to information in all matters of public importance subject to regulation and reasonable restrictions imposed by law.” —Article 19A of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan In his eloquent note to the detailed judgement in Constitutional Petitions 77 to 85/89 of […]
The much-awaited report of the commission the government had set up to investigate the kidnapping and brutal murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad is out – and disappointingly unhelpful in establishing the truth. It says “Saleem’s writings probably, did, and certainly could have drawn the ire of various belligerents in the war on terror, which included […]
Saleem Shahzad filed a story by way of this report. There is no justice for those killed by a powerful murderer. By Atika Rehman The writer is a sub-editor on the web desk of The Express Tribune and has an LLB degree from the University of London I once attended a workshop organised by the […]
FRIDAY marked the death anniversary of a Pakistani journalist and the failure to find the culprits behind the murder of another. Even as Wali Khan Babar’s case awaits trial one year on, the judicial commission tasked with examining Saleem Shahzad’s murder and with identifying the culprits has said it does not have the evidence required […]
By: Adnan Rehmat Murder is an extreme form of censorship. That journalists in Pakistan are killed at the rate of seven a year, or staggeringly one every 50 days (since January 2000), is hard to accept. That not a single killer has been unmasked, save that of Daniel Pearl, borders on the incredible. So is […]
Sir: The report of the Judicial Commission’s inquiry on journalist Saleem Shahzad’s murder case has come up with no conclusion. It was set up to identify the culprits and fix responsibility for the murder. The commission has failed to do so. Its report has strengthened the general impression that holds the ISI responsible for committing […]
By: Mazhar Abbas Pakistan’s journalist community is today observing the first death anniversary of Wali Khan Babar, who was murdered in cold blood in Karachi. During the year 12 more journalists were killed, which made Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world for journalists. Of the 13 journalists killed in 2011 (or more than […]
The purpose of government commissions, it seems, is to obfuscate rather than illuminate. They exist not to investigate but to give the impression of hard work. So, it was in the case of the judicial commission investigating the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad. The commission was supposed to find out who was responsible for the […]
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