Mehboob Khan, a young freelance news photographer was killed on 28 April 2007 in a suicide bombing aimed at Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao, in the northwestern district of Charsadda. Four other journalists were injured by the blast. “Suicide bombings against civilians are appalling,” Reporters Without Borders said. “They aim to kill and maim indiscriminately, and pose serious security problems

Noor Hakim, a reporter for the Urdu-language daily “Pakistan” and vice-president of the Tribal Union of Journalists was killed along with four other people in a bombing in Bajaur, in the northwestern Tribal Areas, on 2 June 2007. “We address our condolences to his wife, son and three daughters and his colleagues in the Union of Tribal Journalists,” the press

One photojournalist was killed and several injured on 3 July 2007 while covering clashes between law enforcement agents and the students of Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad. The administration and students of Lal Masjid have been engaged in confrontations with the government since January. Javed Khan, cameraman of the Islamabad-based daily “Markaz” and of the UK-based

A cameraman for a local national television channel was among the 138 people killed in bomb blasts in the crowded procession to welcome former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her return to Karachi, Pakistan after eight years of self imposed exile. The two bomb blasts that occurred just after midnight on 19 October 2007 also injured a number of journalists

Zubair Ahmed Mujahid, correspondent for the national daily “Jang”, was riding a motorbike in the town of Mirpurkhas on 23 November, when unidentified armed men opened fire and killed him. Mujahid was killed because of “his articles criticising the situation of the poor,” Mujahid’s elder brother told RSF. He wrote a weekly column called “Crime and Punishment” in which he

The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly distressed by reports that abducted Pakistani journalist Hayatullah Khan has been found dead. International news agencies reported that Khan’s body was found today by villagers in the North Waziristan town of Mir Ali, from where he was abducted on December 5. Local government officials and family members told journalists that Khan had been

A camera operator in southeast Pakistan’s Sindh district has been killed while covering a gunfight between tribesmen near the town of Larkana, report the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On 29 May 2006, Munir Ahmed Sangi of Kawish Television Network (KTN) was shot dead in the middle of a fierce gunfight between members of

Pakistan’s tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are not the safest areas for journalists. In the province of South Waziristan, authorities routinely bar reporters from entering and journalists who report on the activities of al-Queda supporters are often harassed and threatened. On 7 February 2005, two journalists were shot and killed by armed assailants, report Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), the Committee to

Police in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province are investigating the whereabouts of the mayor of Manshera after he shot and killed a journalist who accused him of running an illegal liquor business. The murder drew outrage from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the World Association of