Pakistan Press Foundation

The Balochistan Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the murder of Mehmood Ahmed Afridi, a correspondent for the Urdu-language newspaper Intikhab in Pakistan.

Three media professionals were killed and three others injured in Quetta, Pakistan; they were reporting on an explosion that had occurred about a few minutes earlier, when a second bomb exploded, killing and injuring many.

It is not clear who placed an explosive devise under Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir’s car but he had been criticised by the Taliban for speaking out against the shooting of a teenage rights activist in October.

Unidentified gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on Pakistani journalist Rehmatullah Abid while he was in a shop in Panjgur, Balochistan.

MFWA welcomes the move by Gambian authorities to drop charges against two journalists for seeking permission to peacefully protest the execution of death row inmates, but calls for investigation into death threats against journalists.

The head of the Pakistani Taliban, enraged by widespread media coverage and scathing criticism of an assassination attempt on a teen blogger, has ordered the targeting of media organisations.

Over 40 IFEX members worldwide call for the new President of Somalia to help combat impunity in the killing of journalists, revise media laws and uphold UN and African resolutions to help protect journalists.

Two men with automatic weapons began to indiscriminately fire at a gathering of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party, killing a cameraman and injuring three other journalists.