Posts Tagged ‘Taliban’
December 9th, 2010
Two journalists were among 50 people killed by suicide bombers on December 6.
Abdul Wanab, from
Express News and Pervez Khan
Waqt TV died and a third journalist Mohib Ali was injured in the attack on an administrative building in the town of Ghanalai, on the border with Afghanistan. The journalists were covering a peace jirga in which local government officials and tribal elders were discussing an anti-Taliban strategy.
May 11th, 2010
Film-maker Asad Qureshi and his fixer Colonel Iman were
released last Thursday after being held
captive by the Pakistani Taliban for over a month. Khalid Khwaja, the other member of their party was
found dead on 30 April in North Waziristan. The two men were been
handed over to the Haqqani network, an independent negotiations team who have close links with the Taliban. No ransom money has been paid.
May 5th, 2010
Twenty-four different radio stations were
prevented from broadcasting BBC Urdu bulletins on 27 April. According to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) the 24 stations had neglected to seek permission to broadcast foreign content.
April 9th, 2010
A British filmmaker is missing in Northern Waziristan,
Asad Qureshi is one of the group of men who have vanished in the mountainous tribal region on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. On 26 March, two former ISI agents set off with Qureshi and another British filmmaker to conduct interviews with Taliban leaders. No other reports have surfaced regarding their whereabouts but a
Pakistani army spokesperson has confirmed that they have not been detained by any intelligence agencies.
August 24th, 2009
Two cases of voters having fingers amputated have been reported in Afghanistan following last weeks elections. Prior to voting, Taliban forces in the region had threatened to remove any fingers stained with the ink used to provide proof of having cast a ballot. Investigations are currently ongoing regarding a third case. The news comes amidst reports that security forces obstructed, assaulted, and detained Afghan and foreign journalists enforcing an official gag order on news of violent incidents during the presidential election. Read more here
August 17th, 2009
The Taliban in Afghanistan has threatened to cut off voters’ fingers and attack polling stations in its bid to force Afghans to boycott the presidential elections. One of the so-called “night letters”, pinned up around villages in southern Afghanistan threatened that the Taliban would cut off the noses and ears of those who vote on Thursday. Fingers stained with ink, the sign of having cast a vote, will also be hacked off, the warning said. Read more here
June 22nd, 2009
New York Times journalist, David Rohde who was kidnapped by the Afghan Taliban seven months ago has managed to escape from the compound where he was being held. Read more
here
May 15th, 2009
Manchester film maker, David Whitney, has fled Pakistan after being attacked. Whitney had been shooting a film about Taliban rule in Afghanistan when his team was shot at just outside Quetta, near the Afghan border. The crew escaped without serious injury, but left the country immediately.
Read more
here
