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Rangers action: Four JSQM workers, cameraman injured

HYDERABAD: Rangers arrested two activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz and baton-charged people who were protesting against the arrest of JSQM chief Basheer Khan Qureshi here on Saturday. The action left a TV cameraman and four JSQM activists injured. Activists had gathered on a section of the city bypass to stage a sit-in as […]


Journalists held in Parachinar

PARACHINAR: The local administration on Tuesday arrested seven journalists and shifted them to the jail. The arrests were made during the Muttahida Talba Mahaz news conference at the Parachinar Press Club. The arrested journalists, including Press Club President Azmat Alizai, Senior Vice President Naseer Hussain, General Secretary Sajjad Hussain, Press Secretary Rashid Khan, Finance Secretary […]


Journalist manhandled by supporters of former minister

Bureau Chief of “ARY One World” TV channel, Farhan Effendi was manhandled and injured by the supporters of a former provincial minister Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Mirza in his press conference in Hyderabad city of Sindh province of Pakistan on Monday, August 30, 2011. Effendi, who is also the General Secretary of Hyderabad Union of Journalists, […]


Journalist shot dead in Khuzdar

QUETTA: Armed men shot dead a journalist, Munir Ahmed Shakir, in Khuzdar town on Sunday. “Munir Shakir was on his way home after purchasing some household items from a market when some armed men riding a motorcycle opened fire on him,” DIG Kalat range Ghulam Rasool Domki told Dawn by telephone. Sources said that Mr […]


Senior journalist kidnapped in NWA

Mushtaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: A group of armed men with covered faces kidnapped senior tribal journalist Rahmatullah Darpakhel from Miramshah, North Waziristan, on Tuesday, tribal sources said. He was associated with an Urdu daily Ausaf. The sources said Rahmatullah was shopping in the bazaar when a group of armed men bundled him into a car and […]


Police attacked newspaper’s office in Peshawar

The main office of daily “Mashriq”, a leading Urdu newspaper of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, was attacked by Police on August, 6, 2011. They tortured the staff members including senior journalists Sohrab Khan and Asif Nisar Ghayasi. Saif-ul-Islam, the president of Peshawar Press Club told Pakistan Press Foundation that about […]


Geo News cameraman manhandled in Swat

MINGORA: A Geo News cameraman and his colleague sustained injuries when the Levies Force officials thrashed them in Makanbagh area here Saturday, sources said. The sources said that the Geo News cameraman Murad Ali and Sheraz, working for another private TV channel, were on their way to Saidu Sharif Hospital for coverage when they got […]


Private TV channel’s news team attacked

A reporting team of “SAMAA TV”, a private news channel, was attacked by a group of miscreants who manhandled the crew for one and half hour and warned them of dire consequences if they continued coverage in the area. They also attacked the channel’s van, setting it ablaze on 28 July 2011 in Karachi, the […]


MQM condemns attack on TV host Sheryar

KARACHI: Co-ordination Committee of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has strongly condemned the murderous attack on private TV channel host Sheryar Sherry in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, says a press release on Wednesday. The committee termed this attack by the criminal elements as dastardly. The committee said that the programme being hosted by Sheryar Sherry was unveiling the activities […]


Freedom of expression

Abdul Quayyum Khan Kundi Pakistan has become a breeding ground for extreme religious and ethnic views. Religious and political leaders seem to use inflammatory views to gain short-term benefits of votes or legitimacy. These views are then flashed on the television screens and make headlines in the newspapers without much regard for their effects on […]


Two journalists tortured, eyebrows shaved in Bahawalpur

BAHAWALPUR: Unidentified youths severely tortured two journalists and shaved their moustaches and eyebrows near Chak 6/BC on Bahawalpur-Hasilpur Road on Friday. Journalist Muhammad Yaseen Ansari and photographer Khalid Sardar told The News they received calls that some members of a qabza group were torturing the women to grab their land and the victims needed the […]


Mirza threatens to kill Geo reporter

KARACHI: On the very first day of taking charge of the Ministry of Works and Services, Zulfiqar Mirza failed to make secret his anger and vindictiveness against the media and launched an undisguised attack on the freedom of the press. While disallowing the Geo News team from covering his tour of the MA Jinnah Road […]


Injured journalist dies of blast wounds

On June 17, 2011, Shafiullah Khan, 28, a young trainee reporter at the daily “The News”, Peshawar succumbed to his critical wounds he received during two deadly blasts that ripped through the military cantonment’s Khyber Supermarket in a commercial and residential area of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan on 11 […]


Guardian journalist assaulted by the police in Pakistan

Waqar Kiani, 32, Pakistan-based correspondent of British newspaper “Guardian” was assaulted allegedly by police in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan on 18 June, 2011. He was attacked after five days of a news report published in Guardian and other newspapers about abduction and torture by suspected Pakistani intelligence agents in July 2008 in Islamabad. […]