Unknown armed men shot and killed Rehmatullah Abid, district correspondent for the Dunya News television channel and a reporter for the Urdu-language daily newspaper Intikhaab. The incident occurred in the afternoon of November 18, 2012, in Panjgur, some 600 kilometers away from Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan province of Pakistan. According to media reports, unidentified gunmen riding a motorbike

On May 31, 2011, the dead body of Syed Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistan Bureau Chief of “Asia Times Online” and South Asia Correspondent for Italian news agency Adnkronos International (AKI), was found in a canal, some 150 km from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, from where he was abducted two days earlier. His body is reported to bear marks of torture. He

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 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

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

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

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

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

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