On September 21, 2012, a driver for ARY News, Muhammad Aamir Liaquat, was killed in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when police opened fire on demonstrators staging a violence protest outside a cinema against the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video. Pakistan Press Foundation pays tribute to the work of Liaquat as a frontline media worker. Liaquat received a […]

گیارہ سال قبل 14 ستمبر 2010 کو سینئر صحافی ، ہنگو یونین آف جرنلسٹ کے صدر اور روزنامہ اوصاف اور روزنامہ مشرق ، سمیت کئی اخبارات کے نمائندے، مصری خان اورکزئی ، کو تین نامعلوم افراد نے ہنگو پریس کلب خیبر پختونخوا کے سامنے فائرنگ کر کے ہلاک کر دیا تھا۔ اس وقت اورکزئی کی […]

Eleven years ago on September 14, 2010, senior journalist, President of the Hangu Union of Journalist (HUJ) and correspondent for number of newspapers including Daily Ausaf and Daily Mashriq, Misri Khan Orakzai 48, was shot dead by three unidentified men in front of Hangu Press Club, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Early morning when Orakzai was entering the […]

Whether it was due to influence of the accused or police indifference, media persons outside the judicial magistrate Shoaib Akhtar’s court were harassed, intimidated and threatened by the Jaffer family on Monday. It was the date of hearing and all the prominent members of the House of Jaffer, Zahir Jaffer, his father Zakir Jaffer, mother […]

PESHAWAR: The proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has issued a stark warning to national me­dia and journalists, asking them to refrain from calling them a “terrorist outfit” or they will be treated as enemies. In a statement apparently released by the TTP on social media on Monday, its spokesman Mohammad Khurasani reportedly said they were monitoring […]

PESHAWAR: The proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has issued a stark warning to national me­dia and journalists, asking them to refrain from calling them a “terrorist outfit” or they will be treated as enemies. In a statement apparently released by the TTP on social media on Monday, its spokesman Mohammad Khurasani reportedly said they were monitoring […]

On September 3, 2010, two media staffers — Samaa TV camera operator Ejaz Raisani and Aaj News driver Muhammad Sarwar — were killed in a suicide attack on a procession in Quetta, the capital city of the Balochistan province that claimed the lives of at least 64 people and  over 160 injured in the blast. […]