LAHORE: Senior analyst Najam Sethi said on Saturday that the Pakistan state had been weakened after the killing of its workers and security persons. Speaking in Geo News programme ‘Aapas Ki Baat,’ Sethi said 10 to 15 journalists were killed in Pakistan every year and the number of the killed police and army men was […]
Raza Rumi, a columnist and an anchor for the news show “Khabar Se Agay” of “Express News” was attacked by unidentified armed men on March 28, 2014 at about 8:30pm. The incident took place in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province of Pakistan. The car driver was killed and a security guard sustained serious injuries […]
LAHORE: The South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and the South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) have slammed as outrageous an attack on anchor and columnist Raza Rumi in which his driver was killed and his guard injured. “We note with indignation that this is the fifth attack on the media group. The impunity perpetrators for […]
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Pervaiz Rashid on Saturday paid a visit to Express News anchorperson Raza Rumi, and strongly condemned Friday’s attack on his car in which Rumi’s driver was killed. Talking to Express News, Rashid said Express Media Group was presenting the truth to the people but unfortunately some […]
ISLAMABAD: Lambasting the deadly attack on the anchorperson, Raza Rumi, in Lahore, the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) and the National Press Club (NPC) criticised the Punjab government for their flawed security arrangements. The joint protest, held by the RIUJ and the NPC, demanded the Punjab government to constitute a special team to probe the […]
Protests were staged nationwide condemning the attack on analyst and Express News show “Khabar Se Agay” anchor Raza Rumi on Saturday, Express News reported. This was the fifth attack on the Express Media Group. Unidentified gunmen had opened fire on Rumi’s car in Lahore on March 28, injuring him and killing his driver. The attack […]
No story is worth your life. Still, as Kati Marton of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) who visited Pakistan last week said in her latest blog “CPJ finds hope for press freedom in Pakistan” “… at least 46 journalists have been killed, 24 of them murdered for the ‘crime’ of covering intelligence services, the […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly sub-committee of the Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting and National Heritage has recommended the government arrest the nominated accused of journalists’ killing across the country. The committee expressed serious reservations over non-arrest of the killers of journalists, which creates further uncertainty among the journalists’ community. Police officials from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
On March 19, a delegation of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to express concerns about the safety of media workers and was assured of the government’s cooperation in this regard. Yet, the very same evening, a bomb was found outside the residence of a senior Peshawar-based journalist. Potential disaster […]
DI KHAN: A media cell will soon be set up in South Waziristan to facilitate local journalists, shared South Waziristan Political Agent (PA) Islam Zeb during a meeting with local representatives of the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ). Speaking at his compound in Tank on Thursday, Zeb said the cell would enable tribal journalists to […]
ISLAMABAD: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said Pakistan can be a role model in the region and among the Muslim countries with reference to the media but the government needed to maintain a steady pace in resolving issues confronting the journalists. A delegation led by Kati Marton, the CPJ board member, is visiting […]
KARACHI: Coordinated efforts are necessary to deal with threats to Pakistani media and Committee for Protection of Journalists (CPJ) is consulting with all stakeholders including the government to ensure better steps for protection of journalists and freedom of expression, said Elisabeth Winchell, CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant here Wednesday. She was speaking at a ‘roundtable discussion […]
KARACHI: Two suspected target killers killed in an encounter with the police in Karachi on Monday were also involved in the attacks on the office of Express Media group, a top Karachi police official said on Wednesday. “The cross-matching of ballistics reports has confirmed the two suspects [killed in Monday’s encounter] were involved in the […]
ABBOTABAD: Ibrar Tanoli, the journalist who was critically injured in a shooting on Sunday, passed away at the age of 28 in Ayub Medical Complex (AMC), Abbottabad on Monday morning. The photojournalist had been serving as the general secretary of the Mansehra Press Club. He was also affiliated with a foreign wire service as a […]
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