Articles by Pakistan Press Foundation

Two journalists injured in blast at poet’s shrine
Mehmood-ul-Hassan Khan and Waheed-ur-Rehman were at the site of the explosion when a second blast occurred.

Thirty-two IFEX members urge authorities to release journalist Eskinder Nega
On 1 May, jailed journalist Eskinder Nega, facing the death penalty, receives in absentia the 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Thirty-two IFEX members are calling for his release, and an end to the use of national security legislation against all writers and journalists.

Twenty-seven IFEX members call for investigation into brutal attacks on journalists
Twenty-seven IFEX members appeal for end to impunity in recent brutal attacks on journalists in Kazakhstan, including near-fatal attack on Luqpan Akhmedyarov in April.

Fifty IFEX members and partners call for freedom for Bahraini human rights defenders, bloggers and activists
In advance of the Formula 1, 50 IFEX members and partners call for detained activists and human rights defenders to be freed, including blogger and activist Abduljalil Al-Singace and human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, founder of IFEX member the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, who is ailing in prison since starting a hunger strike on 8 February.

TV channel’s office and satellite van attacked in Karachi
While the attackers have not been identified, it is believed they were targeting the offices of the Jang Group.

Four CD shops destroyed by explosives in Takhtbhai
The president of the Tribal Union of Journalists said the owners of the shops had been threatened by militants, who told them to close their “un-Islamic” businesses.

Fifty rights groups call on King to free Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, whose life is at risk in prison
Fifty IFEX members and other rights groups call on the Bahrain authorities to release from prison human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, whose life is at risk since beginning a hunger strike on 8 February.

Copies of newspaper torched; transmission of TV channel suspended
The incidents were prompted by a talk show aired by Express News, in which two politicians debated the cause of a Balochistan leader’s murder.