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Murdered newsman buried

A large number of journalists, political workers and local people attended the burial. Later, more than 200 people, including relatives of the deceased, led by Khohra union council nazim Makhdoom Nadeem, took out a procession on tractor trolleys, pick-ups and other vehicles up to Gambat bypass. There they staged a sit-in for two hours, suspending […]


Journalists persecuted in Pakistan, says Safma report

Diplomats and members of the civil society shook their heads in disbelief as reports from Balochistan and FATA areas were brought to Islamabad by Safma with first-hand reports. “Yes, it is true that there is a cell of Pakistan security agencies that has been set up in Quetta which on daily basis regulates the media. […]


Afghan journalist beheaded in Hangu

Anwar Saleh, a resident of Khost, was a young poet and journalist, who was in Pakistan for personal work, said an officials from Khost’s Yaqqubi district.Journalists from southern Afghanistan strongly condemned the brutal killing, and demanded the Pakistani government immediately arrest the assailants. Source: Daily Times Date:1/10/2007


Free press brought positive changes in society: PML

In a press statement issued, the PML leader said the 2007 would be the year of continuity and consistency of the ongoing policies and reforms of the government that would remain under implementation besides carrying out an agenda of legislation in the Parliament. He said the 2007 would be the year of smooth political process, […]


81 journalists killed in 2006

“Iraq was the world’s most dangerous country for the media for the fourth year running, with 64 journalists and media assistants killed,” RSF said. “Since fighting began in 2003, 139 journalists have been killed there, more than twice the number in the 20-year Vietnam War (63 killed between 1955 and 1975). “About 90 per cent […]


Ban on sale of newspapers in North Waziristan

PESHAWAR: No newspapers were sold across North Waziristan on Wednesday because of a two-day ban on the sale of newspapers by militants after an erroneous news report on Monday claimed that four militants were killed in a clash with security forces near Mir Ali town. “No newspaper was distributed or sold anywhere in (North) Waziristan […]


Journalists detained by Taliban back home

QUETTA: Pakistani journalists Saleem Shahzad and Qamar Yousufzai, who had been arrested by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, returned home on Tuesday.The two journalists crossed into Pakistan through the border town of Chaman from Spin Buldak and reported at the FIA immigration post in the afternoon. “Both reported at the immigration post of FIA in […]


Taliban detain two Pakistani journalists

KABUL: The Taliban in Afghanistan said on Saturday they were holding two Pakistani journalists because they had not been carrying travel documents. An earlier report said the pair had been kidnapped. The journalists would be released at the border, possibly tomorrow, said Mohammad Hanif, a spokesman for the movement driven from government in late 2001 […]


Protection for journalist demanded

DADU, March 10, 2006: Local journalists at a meeting have condemned the warnings allegedly issued to the district correspondent of Dawn, Qurban Ali Khushik, by a minister. The meeting, presided over by Wali Mohammad Chandio, appealed to President Gen Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to provide […]


Journalists in interior areas suffer in silence

A nephew of CM’s advisor tortures, humiliates reporter From Ali Hassan Hyderabad, August 30 2006: Waderas and other people who somehow managed to grab positions in the system of local bodies, have lost their minds because of absolute power, especially in remote areas. A reporter Umer Soomro of Dhoro Naro, a town, hardly 15 kilometres […]


Pakistan: Website of World Sindhi Institute Blocked

July 28 2006: Pakistan Government has blocked the website of World Sindhi Institute (WSI). In a press release the Washington based WSI issued a statement expressing concern on imposition of ban on websites within Pakistan. Munawar Leghari, Executive Director of WSI said the bans fit a pattern of human rights violations related to the press […]


Outraged mob fires on TV Van and beat journalists

KARACHI, July 17 2006: Supporters of a slain religious leader sprayed bullets on the van of a local TV channel on July 15, 2006, in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan. A day earlier two cameramen of beat two cameramen of another television channel. Masked armed activists at the funeral procession of religious leader Allama […]


The Nation correspondent found murdered

PESHAWAR, June 17 2006: The body of Hayat Ullah, correspondent of Daily the Nation in Mirali North Waziristan Agency, was found near village Khaisoor on June 16 afternoons. He was around 30. Hayat Ullah was abducted from his native Mirali Town of North Waziristan Agency on December 5, 2005 last while he was on his […]


Jang, Geo reporter handed over by Air Force to police

KARACHI. June 22 2006: The reporter of Jang and Geo who was picked up by Air force police more than three months ago was handed over to police this morning. According to details, Mukesh Rupeta was picked up by Air force police while he was making a video film of Shehbaz airbase in Jacobabad. No […]