The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in calling for the formal release of a judicial commission’s report on the 2014 shooting of Geo Television journalist Hamid Mir after details of the report were leaked to the public. The PPF yesterday called on Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali […]
Karachi, April 12, 2016: Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) today appealed to Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan, to direct the concerned authorities to officially release the leaked Report of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding Incident of Firing on Hamid Mir along with all annexures and appendixes. The judicial commission was set […]
Pakistan is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. Media personnel are targeted by militants; religious, ethnic, and separatist groups; intelligence and law enforcement agencies; and even mainstream political parties. The country—a frontline state for almost four decades—suffers from a polarized society and a culture of intolerance. As rule of law […]
KARACHI: A protest rally organised by the students’ wing of a religious party turned violent on Sunday when participants beat up journalists, set fire to a vehicle of a private news channel and attacked the Karachi Press Club over what described as a lack of media coverage of their protest. The Anjuman Talba-i-Islam (ATI), the […]
On Wednesday, the courts in Karak district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, awarded life imprisonment and a fine of Rs5 million to one of the men accused of gunning down in cold blood journalist Ayub Khattak on Oct 11, 2013. While grief cannot be assuaged, that the long wait for justice — nearly two years in this case […]
KARAK: The district and sessions judge here on Wednesday convicted a man for killing a senior journalist and sentenced him to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs500,000. The judge Syed Kamal Hussain Shah, however, acquitted a co-accused, Khoob Niaz, who is brother of the convict Aminullah, due to lack of evidence. The judge ruled […]
On March 16, 2016, the murderer of journalist Ayub Khattak was awarded life imprisonment with 5 million rupees (US $ 50,000) by District and Sessions Judge in Karak, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. This marks only the fourth conviction for the murder of a journalist out of 49 journalists that have been […]
