Articles by Pakistan Press Foundation
Newspaper owner and writer Jan Muhammad Dashti injured in gunfire attack
(PPF/IFEX) – Jan Muhammad Dashti, poet, writer and proprietor and editor of the Urdu daily “Asaap”, and his driver were seriously wounded on 23 February 2009 when unidentified gunmen opened fire on his vehicle in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The motive for the attack seems to be sectarian extremism. According to police […]
Journalist Imtiaz Alam injured in attack, believes it to be linked to his criticisms of terrorism
(PPF/IFEX) – Senior journalist Imtiaz Alam, the secretary general of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), was attacked by unidentified men on 18 February 2009. Alam said he was travelling to his house in Doctor’s Colony at about 11:00 p.m. (local time) when four men attacked his car with batons and hockey sticks. Alam was […]
Journalist Noor Hassan abducted, questioned about interviews with internally displaced persons and Taliban spokesman
(PPF/IFEX) – Noor Hassan, a reporter for the Royal News television channel, was abducted on 8 February 2009 in Swat, the epicentre of fundamentalist militant insurgency in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). He was released the next morning in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. Hassan told PPF that he, along with Royal TV […]
Security guards assault television news reporter
(PPF/IFEX) – On 6 January 2009, Ahmad Faraz, a crime reporter for Pakistan’s leading television network “Geo News”, was assaulted by security personnel from the EME Society, which is governed by the Defence Housing Authority, in Lahore. The incident took place when journalists arrived at the EME Society’s main gate to provide coverage of police […]
Newspaper offices stormed by armed men, staff told to be prepared for “extreme consequences”
(PPF/IFEX) – On 1 January 2009, over thirty armed men belonging to the Sindh Nationalist Front (SNF) political party stormed the offices of the Sindhi-language daily “Awami Awaz” and threatened its staff. The intruders, who were led by Anwar Gujjar, the SNF’s Media Coordinator, held the staff hostage for about half an hour and inquired […]
Japanese and Afghan journalists shot, wounded in Pakistan
(PPF/IFEX) – A Japanese journalist and his Afghan colleague were shot and wounded on 14 November 2008 in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s restive North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Motoki Yotsukura, the Islamabad bureau chief for Japan’s “Asahi Shimbun” newspaper, and Afghan journalist Sami Yousufzai, a correspondent for “Newsweek” magazine, were attacked by three gunmen […]
Canadian web-publisher, two Pakistani colleagues kidnapped in tribal areas
(PPF/IFEX) – Khadija Abdul Qahar, a Canadian publisher of a web magazine, and two of her Pakistani colleagues were kidnapped on 11 November 2008 in the tribal areas of Pakistan where she was gathering material for a documentary. According to press reports, Qahar was travelling in a taxi to the town of Miramshah, in the […]
Two journalists injured in bomb blast at newspaper offices in Pakistan
(PPF/IFEX) – Two journalists, including a photojournalist, received minor injuries on October 20 when a bomb went off outside the offices of local newspapers in Quetta, the capital city of Pakistan’s southern province of Balochistan that borders Afghanistan. The bomb, which was planted in a gas geyser, exploded around 4:00 p.m. (local time). It shattered […]