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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Waheed Butt, 40, cameraman, “Geo News”, a leading private news channel, was arrested and assaulted by police as he was filming the arrest of a 12-year boy by police on June 17, 2011 in Lahore, capital city of Punjab province of Pakistan. Butt, who is also president of Lahore Cameramen Association (LCA), told Pakistan Press […]
PESHAWAR: A journalist who was injured in the twin explosions in Peshawar’s Khyber Supermarket succumbed to his injuries on Friday. Shafiullah was visiting the area when two powerful blasts ripped through the marketplace in Peshawar just before midnight on June 11. He received third degree burns and succumbed to his injuries today. At least 34 […]
Shahzad Anwar, Vice president of Multan Press Club and chief photographer of Daily “Pakistan Akhbaar” and six other journalists were injured in a clash with the students of state-run Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), when students were protesting for their demands outside the Press Club, in Multan, the city of Punjab province in Pakistan. According to […]
Jamal Tarakai, 36,Quetta-based photojournalist working for various media organizations, who had filmed the first video of security forces’ firing on the five Chechens including three women on May 17, 2011,was arrested, beaten and abused by police in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan province on morning of June 14, 2011. Tarakai told Pakistan Press Foundation […]
Karachi: Three people, including a journalist and an 11-year-old child, were killed in separate incidents in the city on Sunday. Ayaz, 32, chief editor of a weekly newspaper, was shot dead in North Karachi in the Sir Syed police limits. Police said that they received information on Sunday afternoon that a man had been shot […]
Journalist Asfandyar Abid Naveed, 35, reporter of Daily “Akhbar-i-Khyber”, was killed and eight other journalists were injured when two blasts ripped through military cantonment’s Khyber Super Market, a commercial and residential area of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan late night on June 11, 2011. Around 39 people were killed and […]
KARACHI: A cameraman who recorded the shooting to death of an unarmed youngster by Rangers personnel received threats on Thursday from unknown callers, according to the organisation he works for and media houses and journalist bodies. The cameraman of Awaz TV, a Sindhi news and entertainment channel, started receiving threatening calls on Thursday morning after […]
Abdul Salam Soomro, cameraman, “Awaz TV”, a Sindhi language news and entertainment channel, who recorded the shooting to death of an unarmed youngster by the paramilitary Rangers personnel in Karachion June 8, 2011 received threats from unknown callers after the footage was shown on TV channels across Pakistan. Soomro was recording a television programme at […]
Introduction Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is an independent media research, documentation and training centre working to promote and defend freedom of press. Press Freedom Report 2011 At least 42 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Pakistan in last ten years and 29 of them deliberately targeted and murdered because of their […]
By Munawer Azeem and Waseem Ashraf Butt ISLAMABAD / GUJRAT: Tuesday added another chapter to the bloody history of Pakistan’s press freedom record when the body of missing journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad was found. It was confirmed by the capital police as well as its counterparts in Mandi Bahauddin that a body buried in a […]
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