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

On 24 January 2009, Aamir Wakil, 40, worked for a privately-owned TV station was murdered close to his home in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. The press freedom organisation offers its condolences to Wakil’s family and colleagues, including his brother Kamal Asfar, who is also a journalist. “We strongly condemn Wakil’s murder,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Although there is so far no

Janullah Hashimzada, the bureau chief based in Peshawar for Afghanistan’s Shamshad Television, was shot to death while travelling back from Afghanistan on a minibus near Jamrud in the northwestern Khyber district of Pakistan on 24 August, 2009. Operating in plain view, three masked men opened fire with pistols on the minibus, killing Hashimzada instantly and wounding his colleague, Ali Khan.

A journalist has been murdered in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, the first violation of a truce called last week between government and local militant groups, report the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and other IFEX members. Musa Khankhel of Geo TV and the daily paper “The News” was found dead

Dr. Abdus Samad Chishti Mujahid, a photographer and columnist for the Urdu-language weekly magazine “Akhbar-e-Jehan”, was fatally shot on 9 February by a gunman in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan. Mujahid was shot twice as he was coming out of his house with his wife to go to work. He was rushed to hospital where

Siraj Uddin, a correspondent of the English-language newspaper “The Nation”, was one of at least 40 people who were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral of a slain police officer on 29 February 2008, in Mingora, a city in the troubled Swat valley of the North-West Frontier Province that has been under a curfew since