An email message sent to CPJ and Reporters Without Borders lays out the Pakistan Taliban's anger with Pakistani media coverage of the military's anti-insurgency campaign in Waziristan, ongoing since early June 2014.
The following is a 4 August 2014 CPJ Blog post by Bob Dietz, CPJ Asia Program Coordinator.
CPJ received an email message from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan– the Pakistan Taliban–this morning [4 August 2014]. Signed by the “Media commission, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Mohmand agency,” the message was addressed to CPJ and our colleagues at Reporters Without Borders.
The message is headlined, “The Global war of ideologies and the behavior of media: To the heads and members of the organizations working for the rights of media members around the world” and lays out the TTP’s anger with Pakistani media coverage of the military’s anti-insurgency campaign in Waziristan, ongoing since early June.
