ISLAMABAD: The wife of Rauf Klasra, special correspondent of The News, has received threatening call from some unknown caller in a bid to stop the journalist from filing hard-hitting stories and writing columns in ‘Jang’. This is the first time that any family member of a journalist has received such a call. The call, made […]
PESHAWAR: Two journalists associated with The News escaped a kidnapping attempt on the Kohat Road on Wednesday night. The reporters “Javed Aziz Khan and Qaiser Khan Afridi” were on their way home on the Kohat Road when they noticed a white Corolla car, with three men on board, chasing their vehicle. After noticing the suspicious […]
ISLAMABAD: Prominent journalist Ansar Abbasi, whose investigative stories in recent weeks brought many powerful people of the country, both judges and politicians, to their knees is now facing death threats. He has already brought these shocking threats to his life to the notice of the top management of the Jang Group of Newspapers. He received […]
The journalist was snatched by around 20 military intelligence agents from his student hall of residence in Kuzdar district on 29 November 2007 probably for publishing articles that were highly critical of the government. Speaking for the first time about his ordeal, Lehri said in an interview with the Daily Times, “It took me three […]
PESHAWAR – At least five persons, including a TV artist, have been killed in different incidents on Saturday in Bannu, sources revealed on Saturday. The sources said that in first incident, occurred near Adnan Public School, two persons, Habibullah and Sher Qadir, were gunned down by some unknown persons. In the second incident, Yousaf and […]
GENEVA: Nearly 100 journalists were killed doing their job during 2008, a slight fall from the previous year due to security improvements in Iraq, a press rights group said on Monday. The Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said in its annual report that 95 journalists were killed in 32 different countries in the past twelve […]
Pakistani businessman Munir Mengal, a member of the Balochi minority who was arrested for planning to launch a Balochi satellite TV station and held for 22 months by military intelligence and the police, has talked to Reporters Without Borders about his ordeal. He was interviewed in the European country where he has found refuge. Mengal […]
KHAR: Suspected militants Saturday fired two rockets that hit the Bajaur Press Club and caused damage to the club’s building. The attack did not cause any loss of life as journalists had long stopped visiting the press club due to the precarious security situation. It seemed the militants wanted to target the security personnel who […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: A demonstration was held against the tragic death of an employee of a private channel, Mohammad Azam Khan, who committed suicide after non-payment of salary for five months. Call for countrywide protests had been given by All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (Apnec) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ). The protesters demanded […]
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today condemned the murders of Pakistani journalists Abdul Razzak Johra, of the Royal TV network, on 3 November and Qari Mohammad Shoaib, of the Azadi and Khabar Kar newspapers, on 8 November. Mr Matsuura also voiced concern over the increasing number of attacks on reporters in the country. “I […]
Maria Tayyab a correspondent of local TV channel “News One” and cameraman Attek Ahmed were manhandled by deputy medical superintendent at Mayo Hospital, Lahore on November 21. Tayyab told PPF that she was covering a story on dengue patients at the Mayo Hospital, where she saw an ailing person with his family outside the hospital. […]
LAHORE: OPPOSITION and journalists staged a walkout during Punjab Assembly proceeding on Friday to protest against the deputy medical officer of Mayo Hospital who tortured a woman reporter of a private TV channel filming a dengue patient and later registered a case against her. The Punjab Assembly speaker adjourned the proceedings for one hour after […]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has learnt with great dismay of the dismissal of Shahzad Hussain Butt, senior reporter of the Aaj Kal Urdu newspaper in Lahore, for reasons directly connected with his activities as president of the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ). According to the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), an IFJ […]
GILGIT, Nov 18: Human rights and journalist organizations have expressed concern over increasing incidents aimed at harassing journalists to stop them from performing their professional duties. In a statement, Gilgit Union of Journalists said government officials were using state powers as well as resources to pressure mediapersons in order to conceal their own wrongdoings. It […]
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