LANDIKOTAL: The Tribal Union of Journalists, Khyber Agency chapter, on Sunday held a protest rally at Bab-i-Khyber in Jamrud tehsil and demanded the government to protect their life and honour. The protest rally was jointly organised by the TUJ Khyber and Khyber Siyasi Ettihad on Sunday. Besides journalists from Landikotal, Jamrud and Bara, representatives of […]

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) administration stopped on Saturday transmissions of unauthorised cable television channels in the light of a decision made by a high-level official committee in connection with implementation of the National Action Plan on counter-terrorism. In a letter to the commissioner of Muzaffarabad division on Friday, the home department had […]

LANDI KOTAL: A vociferous protest by members of Landi Kotal Press Club compelled the security forces to release a local journalist, who was apprehended on Saturday evening. Rahat Shinwari, correspondent of an Urdu daily, was picked up by armed personnel of Khyber Rifles from his house after his identification by a ‘masked’ man accompanying the […]

On 10 October, 2015, the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) raided the house of Rahat Shinwari, a correspondent of an Urdu daily “Ausaf” and took him with them in Landi Kotal a town in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. They blindfolded and handcuffed him and took him to an unknown place. Shinwari’s family […]

KARACHI: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said that in Pakistan last year’s conviction of six suspects for the assassination of Geo Television reporter Wali Khan Babar would herald a new dawn for journalists have dwindled in the face of fresh violence and the leadership’s failure to implement a series of commitments to CPJ to […]

By: Iqbal Khattak The good news is that we are more than halfway through 2015 and the casualty figures for journalists have still not touched the three-digit mark. The bad news is that journalists are still being targeted around the…

KARACHI: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested a suspected militant of the outlawed Sipah-i-Mohammad Pakistan allegedly involved in the recent killing of a television journalist. Speaking at a press conference at the Garden Police Headquarters, Counter-Terrorism Department SSP Amir Farooqi identified the suspect as Zeeshan Haider and said that a 9mm pistol was also […]