Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) demands punishment against culprits involved in Pakistan journalist murder
Guwahati: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-based global media safety and rights body, has demanded adequate punishment for perpetrators who were involved in the murder of Pakistani journalist Iftikhar Ahmed on Saturday last.
Iftikhar (55) becomes the 74th media worker to be killed this year, whereas globally 79 media persons lost their lives to assailants in the entire year of 2021.
Associated with Pakistan’s influential Express Media Group for many years, the talented journalist was shot dead in his own Shabqadar locality of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on 2 July 2022.
Pakistan has already lost three media workers namely Hasnain Shah, Murtaza Shar and Athar Mateen to assailants.
It has now an equal number of media casualties with neighboring India which witnessed the killing of Rohit Kumar Biswal, Sudhir Saini, Juned Khan Pathan and Subhash Kumar Mahato.
“We are appalled by a large number of journalists killed this year which is 100% compared to 36 deaths in the same period last year. The war in Ukraine and the rampant criminality in Mexico are the main reasons for this alarming deterioration. All these crimes must be fully investigated with no impunity to the culprits,” said Blaise Lempen, president of PEC
Source: Northeast Now
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