Pakistan Press Foundation

ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on Din News television channel in Lahore and has warned of further agression against the media. The same group was behind the recent targeting of Dunya News in Faisalabad, Punjab provice.

The office of the Christian web television channel, Gawahi, was destroyed in a fire that erupted in the early hours of 23 November, in Karachi, the biggest city in Pakistan.

Members of the IFEX network and other concerned organisations demand justice for wrongful imprisonment of Mohammed Ismael Rasaool

One day after the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, journalist Zaman Mehsud was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on his motorcycle in Tank, a district in Khyber Pahktunkhwa province, Pakistan.

A report on the safety of Pakistani media professionals presents a bleak picture of the level of insecurity faced by Pakistani journalists and calls for serious efforts by governments and the media to change the present situation whereby those that kill, injure, abduct and threaten journalists are almost never punished.

Pakistani journalists are not only targeted by militants but also by political, religious, ethnic and other pressure groups as well as law enforcement agencies. Incidents of threats, attacks and killings of journalists in Pakistan are clear evidence of how critical the situation is due to the thriving culture of impunity.

The paramilitary Frontier Corps in FATA, Pakistan, raided the house of local correspondent Rahat Shinwari, and detained him. He was eventually released after a protest by local journalists and members of the Press Club.

Armed men on a motorcycle fired five to six shots at the Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) van of Samaa television. This is the third attack on the media just in the city of Karachi in September.