Dr. Abdus Samad Chishti Mujahid, a photographer and columnist for the Urdu-language weekly magazine “Akhbar-e-Jehan”, was fatally shot on 9 February by a gunman in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan. Mujahid was shot twice as he was coming out of his house with his wife to go to work. He was rushed to hospital where

Siraj Uddin, a correspondent of the English-language newspaper “The Nation”, was one of at least 40 people who were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral of a slain police officer on 29 February 2008, in Mingora, a city in the troubled Swat valley of the North-West Frontier Province that has been under a curfew since

Abdul Aziz Shaheen, a local journalist working for local dailies “Azadi” and “Khabarkar” in the troubled district of Swat in the NWFP province of Pakistan, was killed on 29 August 2008, in an attack by jet fighters on a Taliban hideout, where he was being held by the Taliban. Shaheen had gone to the Peuchar area of Tehsil Matta of

Khadim Hussain Sheikh, a stringer for Sindh TV, was killed by unidentified gunmen as he left his home by motorbike in the town of Hub, 23 miles (35km) north of Karachi, according to the Pakistan Federation of Journalists Union (PFUJ) and the Associated Press of Pakistan. Sheikh was also the local bureau chief for the national Urdu-language daily newspaper Khabrein,

A Pakistani reporter was gunned down on 22 May as he was returning from an interview with a Taliban leader on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Mohammed Ibrahim Khan, a reporter for privately-owned Express TV and its Urdu-language sister daily “Express”, was shot to death by unidentified men outside Khar, the main town of the Bajaur tribal area in Pakistan’s North West

Abdul Razzak Johra, a reporter with the Royal TV network, in Mianwali district in Pakistan’s Punjab province was murdered. A local drug dealers are believed to be responsible for the murder on November 3. Royal TV said Johra had prepared several reports on drug-related crime, and he is believed to have received threats for some time. One suspect was reportedly