On 24 January 2009, Aamir Wakil, 40, worked for a privately-owned TV station was murdered close to his home in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. The press freedom organisation offers its condolences to Wakil’s family and colleagues, including his brother Kamal Asfar, who is also a journalist. “We strongly condemn Wakil’s murder,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Although there is so far no

Janullah Hashimzada, the bureau chief based in Peshawar for Afghanistan’s Shamshad Television, was shot to death while travelling back from Afghanistan on a minibus near Jamrud in the northwestern Khyber district of Pakistan on 24 August, 2009. Operating in plain view, three masked men opened fire with pistols on the minibus, killing Hashimzada instantly and wounding his colleague, Ali Khan.

A journalist has been murdered in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, the first violation of a truce called last week between government and local militant groups, report the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and other IFEX members. Musa Khankhel of Geo TV and the daily paper “The News” was found dead