(PPF/IFEX) – On 8 December 2001, at around 8:30 p.m. (local time), approximately a dozen armed men barged into the Karachi-based daily “Ummat”‘s Hyderabad bureau office and beat up two staff members. They also ransacked the office, broke furniture, computers, a television, a fax machine and telephone sets. Bureau chief Abdul Hafeez Abid was not […]
(PPF/IFEX) – On 8 December 2001, at around 8:30 p.m. (local time), approximately a dozen armed men barged into the Karachi-based daily “Ummat”‘s Hyderabad bureau office and beat up two staff members. They also ransacked the office, broke furniture, computers, a television, a fax machine and telephone sets. Bureau chief Abdul Hafeez Abid was not present in the office at the time of the attack.
According to press reports, Abid said that he had received threats via telephone and informed the police. He asked them to post a police guard at the office but his request was ignored. On 16 July, Abid and his son were injured in a shooting attack outside his office.
Lala Rehman Samoon, president of the Hyderabad Press Club, and members of the governing body condemned the attack on the “Ummat” bureau office and demanded that the authorities arrest the accused without delay.
