110 journalists killed in 2015, most in ‘peaceful’ countries: RSF
A total of 110 journalists were killed around the world in 2015, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday, warning that more were being deliberately targeted for their work in supposedly peaceful countries. Sixty-seven journalists were
ISLAMABAD: Twenty-eight journalists were killed and 23 injured while performing their professional duties in 2015 in Pakistan. Fifty-one cases were lodged and only three killers have been held so far. The Journalist Protect Committee, in its annual report, said that six journalists
On 20 December, 2015 Muhammad Ansar, a reporter of Aaj News television channel was manhandled by police for covering the allegedly illegal closing down of sugar mills in Tando Muhammad Khan, a district in the southern part of Sindh province in Pakistan.
Police subjected an Aaj News reporter to torture for covering the purportedly unlawful closure of a sugar mills in Tando Muhammad Khan, Aaj News reported. Quoting unnamed sources, the channel said that two years ago an influential personality of Sindh had tried to
TO: His excellency, Klaus Johannis, President of Romania CC: Mr. Petre Tobă, Minister of Internal Affairs Mr. Eduard Helvig, Director of the Romanian Intelligence Service Dear President Johannis, The undersigned members
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE / KARACHI: Journalist organisations and civil society held on Tuesday protest demonstrations across Pakistan against Monday’s cracker attack on Express News’ Sargodha office. The attack had left a security guard injured and
On December 7, a security guard of Express News television channel was injured when two unidentified men threw a homemade explosive device in their office in the
SARGODHA: A small home-made explosive device (cracker) was hurled at the offices of Express Media Group on Monday evening with the resulting blast injuring a security guard and damaging a number of vehicles. At least two unidentified men riding
According to some journalists Pakistan security officials were preventing journalists from investigating about background of Tashfeen Malik, one of the San Bernardino terrorists involved shooting dead 14 people in California. Some foreign journalists probing about life of