QUETTA: The Khuzdar Press Club has been closed after unidentified people issued threats to local reporters.<\/p>\n
An official of the Khuzdar administration said on Monday that the club\u2019s office-bearers had decided to close the facility after receiving threats over the past two weeks. He said journalists associated with different media groups had stopped working.<\/p>\n
He said media personnel had started receiving threats after two members of the minority Hindu community disclosed at a press conference names of some people allegedly involved in kidnapping of the community members.<\/p>\n
They were kidnapped in Khuzdar last month and released upon payment of ransom.<\/p>\n
He said unidentified people called many reporters, some of them office-bearers of the press club, and warned them against publishing the names of those identified by the Hindu families.<\/p>\n
The official said the press club would remain closed for 10 days.<\/p>\n
This is the second time in the past two years that the Khuzdar Press Club has been closed because of threats to media personnel from unidentified groups.<\/p>\n
A senior journalist told this correspondent from Khuzdar that the journalist community of the city was feeling insecure and that there was no other option but to close the press club.<\/p>\n
At least 12 journalists, including a president and a general secretary of the Khuzdar Press Club, have been killed over the past six years.<\/p>\n
Reporters Without Borders, an international organisation, two years ago declared Khuzdar as the most dangerous place on earth for journalists.<\/p>\n