Pakistan Press Foundation

(PPF/IFEX) – On 29 December 1997, journalist Qaiser Mahmood Khokhar was arrested and beaten by police in Lahore. Khokhar had gone to the police station to collect the discharge papers of a case registered against him on 1 December 1997. He was arrested by sub-inspector (SI) of police Farrukh Shah, and several policemen severely beat […]

(PPF/IFEX) – Three individuals, including a policemen, were seriously injured when an explosive device was thrown from a moving vehicle at the offices of the Sindhi-language daily “Sawal” in Hyderabad on 15 October 1997. The injured, which included two staff members of the newspaper, were taken to hospital. Another explosion took place the same day […]

(PPF/IFEX) – On 7 October 1997, Humayun Fur, bureau chief of the daily “Mashriq”, was released after the Chief of Army Staff pardoned him. The Chief of Army Staff accepted the request of Fur’s wife to pardon her husband on medical grounds. She said that, as Fur was suffering from hepatitis C and jaundice, there […]

(PPF/IFEX) – Humayun Fur, the bureau chief of the daily “Mashriq”, who was sentenced five years imprisonment by the military court on 9 September, has been shifted to hospital in critical condition on Thursday, 2 October 1997.Fur, who is suffering from hepatitis C and jaundice, has been in a coma since noon on 3 October. […]

(PPF/IFEX) – A number of journalists were injured on 15 September 1997 when police charged a procession of journalists and media workers protesting against incidents of attacks on newspaper offices and against the harassment of journalists in the interior of the Sindh province. The protest was in response to a growing number of attacks on […]

(PPF/IFEX) – Nine photographers for national daily newspapers were beaten up by the hospital staff of Rawalpindi General Hospital on 11 September 1997. According to press reports, the photographers were attempting to take photographs of a slain worker of the religious party Tehrik Nifaz-i-Fiqh-i-Jaffaria, when their cameras were snatched by the Chief Medical Officer and […]

Digicom, the largest provider of electronic services in Pakistan, has asked its clients to sign agreements that impose a number of restrictions of the use of the Internet. According to Digicom, these restrictions are part of the licence terms that were imposed by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the licensing authority for electronic services. Under […]

Karachi police attacked several reporters and photographers, beat them severely, and snatched and smashed their cameras on 20 September 1996. The journalists were covering the events that unfolded on the night of 20 September, when Murtaza Bhutto, brother of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and head of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP-Shaheed Bhutto), a breakaway […]