KARACHI: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has condemned attack on Balochistan newspaper daily Tawar’s bureau office in Karachi. Office bearers of CPNE said in a statement issued on Saturday that some unknown persons attacked on newspaper’s office who not only took away costly office equipment but also set on fire its record. The CPNE […]
Swat – Police have thrashed a private channel journalist when he was covering death of three children in a road accident. As per details, yesterday morning three innocent school going children have been died in a roadside accident at the Gulibagh area of Swat. The children were going to school after they were hit by […]
THROUGHOUT Pakistan, especially in feudal and tribal areas, a parallel judicial system exists in the form of jirga or the punchayat system. Although this system does not enjoy any legal cover and its constitutionality may be challenged under Article 175(2) of the Constitution of Pakistan, many people in rural areas make recourse to this system […]
LAHORE: Journalist bodies, trade unions and civil society organisations on Monday took out a procession against “threats to the press club and some individual journalists” by outlawed Lashker-i-Jhangvi. Carrying placards, they condemned life threats to senior photographer Azhar Jafri and his family as well as to the Lahore Press Club (LPC). The pointed that alleged […]
By: Muhammad Akbar Notezai The issue of the killings of Balochistan’s journalists is neither being paid heed to internationally nor nationally In Balochistan, journalists are susceptible to danger because of their honest and brave reporting in the restive province. Moreover, there are many journalists who have quit performing their journalistic duties. This is the reason […]
QUETTA: Hateful graffiti messages against Shias are scrawled along main roads. The striped flags of a banned militant faction accused of hundreds of murders flutter from homes. These are the outskirts of Quetta, from where Shia leaders say extremists towed a giant bomb by tractor to kill 90 Shia Hazaras on February 16, after dispatching […]
According to international media, more than 48 journalists have been killed in Pakistan by various terror groups and state agencies in the last few years Pakistani and international print and electronic media have been publishing heartbreaking reports on the harassment of journalists by Pakistan state security agencies and militant groups since 9/11. The Taliban, sectarian […]
The number of killings and harassment of media people in Pakistan is the highest in the world, even greater than what it is in war zones By Aoun Sahi Pakistan remained one of the deadliest nations in the world for the journalist with 90 journalists killed in the country since 2000. The situation appears unlikely […]
KARACHI: Journalists covering Sindh Assembly’s proceedings on Thursday staged a sit-in protest at the entrance of the provincial assembly’s building against police torture of their colleague. A police man in plain clothes kicked at senior photographer. Zahid Redman fracturing his right hand finger just outside the assembly’s building. The incident drew journalists’ anger, who were […]
By: Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: Banned militant organisations, state’s security institutions and political parties were identified on Wednesday as key elements responsible for attacks on the media, as delegates framed problems to promote collaborative approaches to combating impunity on crimes against journalists during the inaugural day of international conference on safety and security of journalists in […]
By: Adil Shahzeb The brutal killing of the senior tribal journalist and president of the Miranshah Press Club, Malik Mumtaz, has once again highlighted the conditions that the brave tribal journalists have been working under at the cost of their lives. On February 27, unidentified men in a car in Miranshah, North Waziristan, intercepted Malik […]
By: Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: In little over two months this year, five confirmed journalists were killed in line of their duty – one in North Waziristan and four in Balochistan. Pakistan has been ranked the “most dangerous country” for journalists in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The impunity on crimes against journalists made the situation so […]
Syed Ali Shah QUETTA: Armed gunmen killed senior journalist Mehmood Jan Afridi in Kalat town of Balochistan on Friday evening. Deputy Commissioner Kalat, Bashir Ahmed Bazai said gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at Mehmood Jan Afridi in Bus Addah area of Kalat. He said the assailants managed to escape from the spot. Police and […]
MINGORA: Three journalists survived attempt on their lives as they were fired at outside the Swat Press Club here on Tuesday. Senior journalists Fayyaz Zafar, Shahzad Alam and Murad Ali said that they were on way to the press club after dinner when armed men traveling in a white car opened fire on them. The […]
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