Search
Close this search box.

PPF Editor

Abducted journalist found dead in Balochistan

The bullet-riddled body of journalist Razzaq Gul, a correspondent for television station Express News, was found dumped in the town of Turbat in Balochistan province of Pakistan on May 19, 2012. The journalist had been reportedly kidnapped on May 18. Balochistan has been suffering from militancy and instability because of low intensity separatist insurgency and operations of intelligence agencies, resulting

Tribal journalist gunned down in Charsadda

Mukarram Khan Atif, 40, a correspondent for Washington-based Pashto language “Deewa Radio” and a reporter for a private TV channel “Dunya News” was gunned down by militants on January 17, 2012 while he was offering prayer in a mosque in Charsadda District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa province of Pakistan. According to press reports, a gunman entered in the mosque where Atif was

Tribal journalist killed in bomb blast

Nasrullah Khan Afridi, 38, a correspondent for state-run Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), the English-language daily “Statesman” and the Urdu-language daily “Mashriq” in Khyber tribal agency, was killed when an explosive device ripped through his vehicle on the night of May 10, 2011 in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan. The explosion occurred when Afridi

Journalist killed, eight others injured in Peshawar blasts

Journalist Asfandyar Abid Naveed, 35, a reporter for the daily “Akhbar-i-Khyber”, was killed and eight other journalists were injured when two blasts ripped through the military cantonment’s Khyber Supermarket, in a commercial and residential area of Peshawar, the capital city of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, late in the night on 11 June 2011. Around 39 people were killed

Television channel reporter gunned down in Karachi

Wali Khan Babar, 29, reporter of Geo News, Pakistan’s largest private television news channel, was gunned down by unidentified armed men in Karachi on 13 January 2011. Babar received five bullets – two in his forehead, one in the jaw and two in his neck. He was killed shortly after covering an operation against drug-traffickers in the Pehalwan Goth area

Injured journalist dies of blast wounds

Shafiullah Khan, 28, a trainee reporter at the daily “The News”, Peshawar, succumbed to critical wounds he received during two deadly blasts that ripped through the military cantonment’s Khyber Supermarket in a commercial and residential area of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan on 11 June. Khan is the second journalist to have died as a

Recognising journalists: Only an international trait?

On October 31, the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ) Pakistan was awarded a human rights award by a German organisation in a ceremony held in Berlin. The union president, Safdar Dawar, a native of Miramshah, North Waziristan, accepted the award on behalf of the union, his fellow journalists in Fata and all his colleagues who were killed while on duty.

Abducted journalist found dead, tortured in Balochistan

Javed Naseer Rind, a senior sub-editor and columnist with the Urdu-language Daily Tawar, was found dead on November 5 near Ghazi Chowk, in Khuzdar, in central Balochistan. Rind disappeared from his hometown Hub in southern Balochistan on September 9. His body was found with torture marks and multiple gunshot wounds. It is not yet clear whether his death relates to

UPR Pakistan by Reporters Without Borders

JOURNALISTS IN DANGER As the United Nations Human Rights Council prepared for its Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders expressed alarm over growing threats to journalists’ lives and safety in many regions of the country. The free press organization, which has official consultative status with the U.N., had recommended as recently as April a series of measures designed