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November 11, 2012

Authorities must act to stop Balochistan murders, says IFJ

Mohammad Khan Sasoli, a correspondent with Daily Balochistan Times and DawnNews TV, and president of the Khuzdar Press Club, was shot dead in Khuzdar, Balochistan province, in Pakistan’s south-west, on December 14. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), an IFJ affiliate, reports that Sasoli was shot by two unidentified motorcyclists as he stepped out of his car, after returning

Journalist dead in twin suicide blasts

Two tribal journalists, Abdul Wahab, a reporter from “Express News” TV channel, and Pervez Khan, a reporter with the “Daily Nawa-i-Waqt” and “Waqt News” TV channel, were killed on 6 December 2010 in a suicide blast that killed 50 people and injured 120 in the Ghalanai district. Ghalanai is the administrative headquarters of the Mohmand Agency tribal district and borders

Journalist shot and killed

Misri Khan Orakzai, a senior journalist, president of the Hangu Union of Journalist (HUJ) and reporter for a number of newspapers, was shot dead by three unidentified men in the early morning hours of September 14, 2010. The shooting took place in front of the press club in the town of Hangu, in the militancy plagued province of Khyber Pakhtoonkhuwah

Two journalists gunned down in Karachi

KARACHI: Two journalists of a local weekly were killed Saturday in a targeted attack, newspaper reports said. The Nation said men on a motorbike sprayed bullets on Syed Tariq Hussain and Aslam Raja near Saifi College and fled. Police arrived at the scene and rushed the journalists to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival. The paper

Journalist killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan border region

Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui, a 39-year-old senior reporter at “Daily Pakistan” Newspaper was killed on 17 September 2010 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a northwest province of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan and is one of the world’s most dangerous locales for journalists. Gunmen opened fire on Saddiqui and he died on the way to the hospital. Conflict between Pakistan’s military and armed groups fighting

Baloch journalist kidnapped and found dead a month later

Journalist Abdul Hameed Hayatan, 26, popularly known as Lala Hameed Baloch, was abducted from the southwestern port city of Gwadar on 25 October 2010 and shot dead. Hayatan was a reporter and photographer for the “Karachi” and “Tawar” dailies and for Royal TV and the president of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), Gwadar Chapter. Hayatan’s body was found in a

One cameraman dead, several others injured in Quetta suicide bomb

At least one Pakistani journalist was killed and others were injured in a suicide bombing at a hospital in Quetta today, according to international news reports. Details are still emerging, and some of the injured are reported to be in critical condition, but Pakistani colleagues tell CPJ that a senior Samaa TV cameraman, Malik Arif, died in the attack. Five

Journalist killed in suicide blasts in Kohat

34-year-old reporter Azmat Ali Bangash was killed along with 41 other people when two suicide bombers blew themselves up amidst a crowd of displaced persons collecting relief supplies in Kohat district of province Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Bangash worked for Pakistan Television (PTV), Samaa TV and Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency. According to press reports, the first suicide bomber blew himself

Journalist’s mutilated body found by police

Police found the scarred body of journalist Ghulam Rasool Birhamani, 30, a reporter for the daily “Sindhu Hyderabad”, at a deserted place two kilometres from Dadu. Dr. Mohammad Hashim Thahim, medical superintendent of Johi Taluka hospital, said that the journalist’s death was caused by fatal injuries to the head. He also found torture marks on the body. Ghulam Bhind, president