Senior journalist and editor of a Pakistani newspaper, The News International, Mr Muhammad Malick has allegedly received threatening telephone calls and was followed by men he believed were government agents. His paper has prominently covered the story about a memo that resulted in the resignation of Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, on Nov 22, 2011.
The paper ran extensive coverage of the incident in which Haqqani allegedly asked for the U.S.'s help to control Pakistan's military in the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2. Malick helped publicize the story, a major scandal in Pakistan, on numerous Pakistani television political talk shows
Media rights organisations including Reporters Without Border (RSF) and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)have also highlighted the threats to Mr Malick.
http://www.cpj.org/2011/11/news-editor-threatened-in-pakistan.php
http://en.rsf.org/pakistan-journalist-receives-death-threat-24-11-2011,41463.html
Friday, November 25, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Kidnapped journalist body found in Baluchistan
Javed Naseer Rind, a journalist kidnapped around two months ago near Hub Town of Baluchistan, was killed and his body was found dumped in Khuzdar on Nov 5. He is the 10th journalist in Baluchistan who has been kidnapped and killed in such a manner.
Said to be in his mid-twenties, Rind’s bullet-riddled body was found dumped in Khuzdar, about 300 kilometers south of Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. He was a senior sub editor at a local daily Tawar, a pro-nationalist newspaper.
“The victim was shot in the head and the bullet had passed through the skull. The body bore multiple marks of brutal torture,” doctors at the District Headquarters Hospital, Khuzdar said.
The Khuzdar police recovered Rind’s body near Ghazgi Chowk and shifted it to the hospital. The officers found a slip from the body in which the man was identified as Javed Naseer Rind.
Rind was abducted on September 10 near his residence in the Mehmoodabad area of Hub Town, which shares a border with Karachi. His relatives had filed an FIR about the kidnapping at the Hub police station, but did not accuse anyone for the incident.
The Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) has condemned Rind’s kidnapping and murder and has demanded that the government constitute a high-level committee to probe the incident. “On several occasions journalists demanded Rind’s safe release but it fell on deaf ears,” a press release issued by the BUJ said.
It further said that over 10 journalists were killed in Balochistan this year and no investigations had been carried out.
Journalists had also raised the issue regarding Rind’s disappearance at the South Asia Free Media Association (Safma) conference in Islamabad last month, expressing fear that he would be found dead.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/288386/missing-persons-young-journalist-found-dead-in-khuzdar/
Said to be in his mid-twenties, Rind’s bullet-riddled body was found dumped in Khuzdar, about 300 kilometers south of Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. He was a senior sub editor at a local daily Tawar, a pro-nationalist newspaper.
“The victim was shot in the head and the bullet had passed through the skull. The body bore multiple marks of brutal torture,” doctors at the District Headquarters Hospital, Khuzdar said.
The Khuzdar police recovered Rind’s body near Ghazgi Chowk and shifted it to the hospital. The officers found a slip from the body in which the man was identified as Javed Naseer Rind.
Rind was abducted on September 10 near his residence in the Mehmoodabad area of Hub Town, which shares a border with Karachi. His relatives had filed an FIR about the kidnapping at the Hub police station, but did not accuse anyone for the incident.
The Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) has condemned Rind’s kidnapping and murder and has demanded that the government constitute a high-level committee to probe the incident. “On several occasions journalists demanded Rind’s safe release but it fell on deaf ears,” a press release issued by the BUJ said.
It further said that over 10 journalists were killed in Balochistan this year and no investigations had been carried out.
Journalists had also raised the issue regarding Rind’s disappearance at the South Asia Free Media Association (Safma) conference in Islamabad last month, expressing fear that he would be found dead.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/288386/missing-persons-young-journalist-found-dead-in-khuzdar/
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