Abdul Aziz Shaheen, a local journalist working for local dailies “Azadi” and “Khabarkar” in the troubled district of Swat in the NWFP province of Pakistan, was killed on 29 August 2008, in an attack by jet fighters on a Taliban hideout, where he was being held by the Taliban. Shaheen had gone to the Peuchar area of Tehsil Matta of

Khadim Hussain Sheikh, a stringer for Sindh TV, was killed by unidentified gunmen as he left his home by motorbike in the town of Hub, 23 miles (35km) north of Karachi, according to the Pakistan Federation of Journalists Union (PFUJ) and the Associated Press of Pakistan. Sheikh was also the local bureau chief for the national Urdu-language daily newspaper Khabrein,

A Pakistani reporter was gunned down on 22 May as he was returning from an interview with a Taliban leader on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Mohammed Ibrahim Khan, a reporter for privately-owned Express TV and its Urdu-language sister daily “Express”, was shot to death by unidentified men outside Khar, the main town of the Bajaur tribal area in Pakistan’s North West

Abdul Razzak Johra, a reporter with the Royal TV network, in Mianwali district in Pakistan’s Punjab province was murdered. A local drug dealers are believed to be responsible for the murder on November 3. Royal TV said Johra had prepared several reports on drug-related crime, and he is believed to have received threats for some time. One suspect was reportedly

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