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

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

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

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

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

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

Ejazul Haq, a technician employed by Lahore-based City-42 TV, was shot dead while helping to cover attacks by “Punjab Taliban” on two mosques of the minority Ahmadi sect in Lahore, on 28 May 2010. Reporters Without Borders offers its condolences to Haq’s colleagues and family, including his widow and two children. At least 80 people were killed in the simultaneous

Faiz Muhammad Sasoli, a reporter based in Khuzdar District, in the southwestern province of Balochistan, was killed in a hail of submachine gun fire on 27 June 2010. Sasoli, who worked for the “Aaj Kal” daily newspaper and the Independent News of Pakistan agency, had escaped two previous murder attempts. His death brings to six the number of media workers

Two media staffers were killed and seven others were injured in a suicide attack on September 3, 2010 on a procession in Quetta, the capital city of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province. At least 64 people were killed and over 160 injured in the blast. The procession was organised by the Shiite Imamia Students’ Organisation to mark Al Quds Day to