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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
QUETTA, June 20 2006: Journalists protested in Quetta on June 19 against the murder of tribal journalist Hayatullah and demanded his killers be arrested immediately. The rally, organised by the Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ), passed through various avenues of the provincial capital. They wore black armbands and carried placards and banners condemning the murder. […]
KARACHI, June 20 2006: A large numbers of journalists from print and electronic media participated in a rally organized by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and the KUJ from Karachi Press Club (KPC) to the US consulate to protest the murder of tribal journalist Hayatullah, who went missing while investigating the killing of a […]
ISLAMABAD, June 20 2006: The protesting mediamen announced June 19 to continue boycott of parliament’s proceedings until the government accepts their demand for an independent fact-finding mission and a Supreme Court commission to investigate the murder of The Nation Correspondent Hayat Ullah in North Waziristan. The journalists were holding demonstration in front of the Parliament […]
ISLAMABAD, June 20 2006: Foreign and local journalists boycotted the Foreign Office briefing on June 19 in a protest against the murder of The Nation’s correspondent in North Waziristan, Hayatullah Khan, whose body was found in Mirali on June 16. As the FO spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam entered the briefing room, Rawalpindi Press Club Senior Vice […]
ISLAMABAD, June 19 2006: On the appeal of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), journalists would observe Black Day across the country against the killing of journalist, Hayatullah Khan Dawar. Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) would also stage a sit-in in front of the Parliament building at 12:00 p.m. and would hold protest demonstration. RIUJ […]
KARACHI, June 19 2006: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on June 18 announced a judicial inquiry into the killing of tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan. “Last night we decided to order a judicial inquiry and the government will share its outcome with the public after its completion,” said the prime minister while addressing the Safma conference here. […]
MIR ALI, June 19 2006: Family of the murdered tribal journalist, Hayatullah Khan, was busy making arrangements to celebrate his return when authorities informed them they had found his body. Hopes of Hayatullah’s safe return were raised after Zaheer ul Islam, the chief administrator of North Waziristan, reportedly told Hayatullah’s younger brother, Ehsan Ullah Khan, […]
ISLAMABAD, June 18 2006: An international press freedom group has called for a full investigation into the killing of a Pakistani journalist, abducted last year after reporting that an al-Qaeda leader had been killed by a US missile. The journalist, Hayatullah Khan, was found dead on June 16. He had been shot in the back […]
HYDERABAD, June 18 2006: A large number of media persons held a protest rally against the killing of journalist Hayatullah Khan. Hyderabad Press Club organized the protest. The protesters were holding a banner inscribed with slogan ‘killing of Hayatullah is the killing of press freedom’. The protesters demanded the arrest of all those behind journalist’s […]
KHAR (BAJAUR AGENCY), June 18 2006: Condemning the brutal slaying of Hyatullah Khan, correspondent of Daily The Nation in Mirali, North Waziristan Agency, journalist throughout Bajaur agency and political parties jointly staged a protest demonstration and walk here on Sunday and held responsible the government for the tragic death of young journalist. The journalist bodies […]
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