Articles by Pakistan Press Foundation
Newspaper owner receives death sentence over two narcotics cases
(PPF/IFEX) – Special judge Syed Kazim Raza Shamsi of the Anti Narcotics Court today ruled in favour of a death sentence and a 1,000,000 Rs (approx. US$15,723) fine in each of the two narcotics cases against Rehmat Shah Afridi, owner of the English daily “Frontier Post” and the Urdu daily “Maidan”. Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) […]
Photographer beaten by police officers
(PPF/IFEX) – Hadi Sanghi, photographer for the Sindhi language daily “Kawish”, was beaten by police officers in the city of Larkana, in the southern province of Sindh, on 14 May 2001. Sanghi was covering the release from prison of Qadir Magsi, head of the nationalist political party Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party (STPP), along with his […]
Photographer arrested for providing photograph to AFP
(PPF/IFEX) – Police in the city of Bahawalpur in the Punjab province arrested Ahmed Nawaz Abbasi, correspondent for the Urdu daily “Nawa-i-Waqt”, early on the morning of Thursday 4 May 2001. He was arrested for providing the French news agency Agence France Press (AFP) a photograph of the corpse of a man who had died […]
Journalist abducted and severely beaten
(PPF/IFEX) – The following is a PPF press release: ISLAMABAD: Five unidentified people abducted Shakil Shaikh, chief reporter for the English-language daily “The News”, at gunpoint in broad daylight on 28 March 2001, in Pakistan’s capital city. His kidnappers beat him severely for three and a half hours before abandoning him in a deserted village […]
Four journalists held responsible for publication of blasphemous letter
(PPF/IFEX) – The following is a 9 March 2001 PPF press release: Four newsmen held responsible for publication of blasphemous letter Peshawar: The one-man tribunal of Justice Qaim Jan Khan of the Peshawar High Court, constituted by the government, held four staff members of The Frontier Post responsible for publication of the blasphemous letter which […]
Another victim of bomb blast at newspaper office in Karachi dies
(PPF/IFEX) – The following is a 12 November 2000 PPF news flash: Karachi: Another victim of the bomb explosion in the offices of the Nawa-i-Waqt group on November 6 died in a hospital in Karachi on Saturday, November 11. Sajid Mehmood, a computer operator in the advertisement department, was critically wounded in the blast, with […]
Bomb explodes in newspaper’s office
(PPF/IFEX) – The following is a PPF news flash: Bomb blast in Pakistan newspaper office Karachi, Nov. 6: Three people have been killed and at least three others were wounded by a bomb blast inside the offices of the Nawa-e-Waqt group, which publishes the Urdu-language daily Nawa-i-Waqt, the daily Nation and a number of other […]
Weekly banned
ISLAMABAD – The district magistrate of Skardu, in the northern area of Pakistan, has revoked the declaration and publication licence of the weekly paper “K-2” for “promoting anti-Pakistan feelings and advocating curtailment of territories within the boundaries of the state.” The newspaper was printed in Rawalpindi. The newspaper’s declaration has been revoked by the district […]