Pakistan Press Foundation’s (PPF) Secretary-General Owais Aslam Ali said on Sunday that over 50 journalists had become victim of targeted killings in recent years in Pakistan and there was always lack of proper investigation in our society when it came to investigating murder of a journalist. “Only two out of 50 murder cases of journalists […]

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SUKKUR: Journalist Jeewan Arain, who had been killed the other day, was laid to rest in Khairpur. His funeral was attended by hundreds of protesting journalists while rallies condemning his murder were taken out across the province. The President of Federal Union of Journalists, Afzal Butt, and Secretary of the PFUJ, Khurshid Abbasi, condemned the […]

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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) deplore the brutal assassination of a journalist in Sindh province yesterday and demand the immediate arrest and persecution of the murderers. The IFJ said Pakistan leads its global death toll as the most dangerous country for journalists and media […]

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SUKKUR: Three unidentified motorcyclists gunned down a local journalist in Khairpur on Wednesday.According to reports, local journalist Jeewan Arain was on the way to Gambat city of Khairpur from Khohra with a friend on a motorcycle when armed men on two motorcycles intercepted his bike at Link Road, Khohra and shot him dead and then […]

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SUKKUR: Three unidentified motorcyclists gunned down a local journalist in Khairpur on Wednesday.According to reports, local journalist Jeewan Arain was on the way to Gambat city of Khairpur from Khohra with a friend on a motorcycle when armed men on two motorcycles intercepted his bike at Link Road, Khohra and shot him dead and then […]

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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses solidarity with its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in their call to end the impunity and defend press freedom and has begun a month long campaign to push Pakistan’s leaders into action against impunity for crimes against journalists. A delegation led by PFUJ former president […]

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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) express concerns over the detention of a senior journalist and blogger in tribal area of Waziristan, Pakistan on Monday October 28, 2014. According to reports, Shehryar Mehsud, a columnist at the Urdu daily Akhbar-e-Khyber, was arrested on the orders […]

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