Posts Tagged ‘Karachi’
May 15th, 2012
The
dead body of a kidnapped
Pakistani journalist was discovered in Karachi last week. Tariq Kamal was kidnapped on 6 May, along with his friend Fawad Sheikh, who was also murdered. Kamal was visiting a dangerous area of Balochistan for an exclusive report when he was kidnapped. The journalist’s family received a call from him informing them he was going to be killed by his captors. His kidnappers
later contacted his family to inform them that Kamal and Sheikh were killed because they were police informants.
April 26th, 2011
A
Pakistani journalist who worked for a local news channel was shot twice on 19 April. Naveed Kamal, 26, was
attacked by two unidentified men when coming home from the offices of Metro One TV. Kamal is currently in the Intensive Care Unit of a local hospital in Karachi. This is the
third such attack on journalists in the city. The Karachi Union of Journalists have
condemned the attack and called on the police to improve the safety and security of journalists.
April 6th, 2011
The chief crime reporter for the Urdu-language daily Extra New was
gunned down in Karachi on 2 April. Zaman Ali was the 14th Pakistani journalist to be killed in the last 13 months.
Witnesses claimed that he was murdered shortly after attending a gathering of Benazir Bhutto supporters, his assailants have not been caught. Pakistan’s Crime Reporters Association condemned his murder, calling for greater protection for working journalists.
November 7th, 2007
President Musharraf’s crackdown has taken its toll on Pakistan’s already beleaguered media, writes Zubeida Mustafa
On Tuesday 6 November, over 350 journalists assembled on a warm sultry afternoon on the lawns of the Karachi Press Club to decide their response to the state of emergency imposed on Pakistan. The feeling of desolation hung heavy. No birds chirped in the normally noisy trees. The megaphone installed for the speakers kept falling silent. The atmosphere epitomised the mood of the journalists since General Pervez Musharraf, armed with extra-constitutional powers, ventured to crack down on the courts, lawyers, human rights activists and the media.
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