Lahore – Journalist Zeenat Shahzadi, who went missing in Lahore in August 2015, was found by security forces on Wednesday night, BBC reported on Friday. Before her abduction, the 25-year-old journalist had been working on the disappearance of an Indian citizen, Hamid Ansari, who was reported traceless in Pakistan since November 2012. The head of the missing […]
Zeenat Shahzadi, the journalist who went missing in Lahore in 2015, has been recovered by security forces, officials said on Friday. Retired Justice Javed Iqbal, head of the missing persons commission, confirmed Shahzadi’s return while speaking to BBC Urdu. She was recovered on Wednesday night from near the Pak-Afghan border, Iqbal said. The newly appointed National Accountability Bureau […]
Mureed Baloch, spokesperson of the outlawed separatist United Baloch Army (UBA) said Pakistani newspapers were an extension of the “Anti Baloch” policies of the state of Pakistan and gave an ultimatum that unless this changed by October 24, they will take severe action. He warned journalists to stay away from newspaper offices and press clubs […]
PESHAWAR: Two journalists from tribal areas taken away by unidentified persons were freed on Monday night after a day of their captivity. Shahnawaz Khan Tarkzai was picked up by unidentified armed men from inside the Shabqadar Press Club (Media Centre) in Charsadda district on Sunday, while Islam Gul Afridi was whisked away when he was […]
Three journalists from Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province went missing under mysterious circumstances on Oct 15 and were released the next day on October 16. Journalist Shahnawaz Tarakzai of Prague-based Mashaal Radio, a project of Radio Free Europe, was forcibly taken by men in plainclothes from the Shabqadar Media Center in Charsadda, KP, on […]
PESHAWAR: Two journalists from tribal areas taken away by unidentified persons were freed on Monday night after a day of their captivity. Shahnawaz Khan Tarkzai was picked up by unidentified armed men from inside the Shabqadar Press Club (Media Centre) in Charsadda district on Sunday, while Islam Gul Afridi was whisked away when he was […]
The free media has a vital role towards the promotion of democracy. This was stated by the Governor of Sindh, Muhammad Zubair, here on Monday. He was talking to a five-member delegation of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) which called on him at the Governor House under the leadership of its general secretary, […]
