Two shops selling music CDs in were destroyed in a bomb blast in Orakzai agency of Pakistan’s Federally Administrated Tribal Area (FATA). The bomb blast targeting the music shops also destroyed four other shops took place on November 22, 2011. Unknown militants planted explosive devices in the main market of Jalka Mela which houses two […]
KARACHI: At least five people were injured when a bomb exploded in a cinema hall here on Sunday night. The low-intensity explosion took place in Kumar Cinema, near Lee Market in Lyari. The explosive device was placed under a seat in the hall, but the blast took place during interval when a very small number […]
SWABI/MIRAMSHAH: Miscreants destroyed over a dozen CD shops in Swabi and Miramshah early on Friday. Swabi police said two CD shops were completely destroyed and three partially after an explosive device ripped through a market of Yar Hussain area. However, no damage to human life was reported in the explosion. Soon after the explosion, police […]
Six shops among eight were completely destroyed in a bomb explosion, on late Thursday night, November 10, 2011, that targeted a Compact Disc (CD) market in Swabi district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa province of Pakistan. Unknown miscreants planted explosives outside two CDs shops in Javed Market which houses many video and music CD shops. The explosion was […]
By Shehzad Baloch QUETTA: Javed Naseer RindÂ’s name was added to the list of more than 10 journalists whose bodies have been found tortured and dumped in Balochistan. Said to be in his mid-twenties, Rind’s bullet-riddled body was found dumped in Khuzdar, about 300 kilometers south of Quetta, on Saturday morning. He was a senior […]
HYDERABAD: A meeting of the General Body of the Hyderabad Press Club (HPC) has demanded immediate arrest of criminals involved in firing on the car of a senior journalist and club’s former president Mahesh Kumar. President HPC Jafar Memon condemned the firing incident which took place on Friday outside the club. Some motorcyclists fired upon […]
Attacks on Journalists and Media Organizations during 2006 Introduction Media organizations and journalists in Pakistan were targeted by government authorities, militant groups, intelligence agencies as well as political and religious groups during 2006. Journalists throughout Pakistan were killed, abducted, injured, harassed and intimidated while fulfilling their duties. Most journalists in tribal areas have either been […]
Introduction 2005 was a difficult year for Pakistani media. Pakistani journalists were subjected to attacks, threats and harassment from institutions of state including law enforcement agencies as well as political, religious, nationalist and militant organizations. The large number of incidents of violence against the print and electronic media and use of other coercive tactics such […]
With an average economic growth of 7% per annum during the last four years, Pakistan has become one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. The country’s growing economy is supported by higher levels of investment in industry, agriculture and services sectors. PakistanÂ’s current emphasis on economic liberalization and privatization requires efforts to expand the […]
During the period eight Dailies, Weeklies, Fortnightly across Pakistan were raided, sealed and clamped down by state machinery according to data compiled through national newspapers. The four months period witnessed a hard billow to freedom of press on the pretext that the publications were to cause nation-wide anarchy by publishing ‘hate materials’. Two journalists were […]
Eleven incidents of attacking and suppressing media and its correspondents have been taken place from January to April 2005 in Pakistan. Two reporters from tribal areas were killed in an attack during this period. Numbers of journalists were injured in these attacks. In this period there were cases of baton charging on journalists, reports of […]
The war in Afghanistan once again thrust Pakistan into the role of a frontline state, and the country became the focus of the international media. Many within and outside the country feared the decision by the Pakistan government to become part of the American-led coalition would prove to be divisive, and that fundamental freedoms, including […]
Introduction The biggest failure of successive governments concerning press freedom has been the inability to provide security to journalists and media institutions. The killing of four newspaper employees, including one journalist, and injury to many others is proof that the present government of General Pervez Musharraf has fared no better in providing a secure environment […]
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