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TV channel, was shot and killed by four unidentified assailants in Jhang district.
The motive for the killing remained unknown.
♦ Sarfaraz Vistro, a senior journalist and chief reporter at Sindh daily
was shot and injured by a man named Gohar Zaman Shah. He was admitted to
a hospital in critical condition where multiple bullets were removed from his
body. The police registered a case but the accused was not arrested.
April
♦ A correspondent of The News and Geo News TV channel for Orakzai
Agency was threatened by the Taliban with dire consequences if he did not
stop reporting. This was the fourth threat he had received from the Tehrik-e-
Taliban for covering the military action in the area.
♦ Murtaza Razvi, the magazines editor at Dawn, was strangled to death
in an artist’s Karachi studio. The motive for his murder was not known.
May
♦ Two reporters who worked for Sindh TV in Jamshoro were beaten
up reportedly by men hired by a former parliamentarian and district nazim of
Jamshoro. One of the two journalists, Aziz Palari, was attacked in retaliation
for stories critical of the former legislator. The journalist thought that he had
been beaten up because they had reported the use of public school teachers as
personal servants of the former lawmaker. The other journalist, Ismail Barejo,
was beaten up for reporting on the beating of Aziz Palari.
♦ Tariq Kamal, an assistant chief reporter for a local Sindhi newspaper,
went missing along with a friend on May 6 from Karachi. The two men’s
bodies were found on May 10. Both had been shot in the head.
♦ Razzaq Gul, a correspondent for Express News in Balochistan, was
kidnapped near his house in Turbat and his dead body was found the next day.
The body bore 15 gunshot wounds and evidence of torture. Gul was believed
to be the 21st media person killed in Balochistan over the past three years.
♦ The Islamabad residence of Shakeel Anjum, a senior journalist at The
News, was attacked for the second time by about half a dozen armed men. At
the time of the attack Shakeel was not home. A similar attack had occurred on
Shakeel’s house in 2006 when his son received serious bullet injuries. A complaint
was registered but the attackers remained unidentified.
♦ Abdul Qadir Hajizai who was a part-time journalist was shot and killed
in Washuk district of Balochistan. He worked for a private Balochi language
TV channel and was on his way home when gunmen on a motorbike shot at
him. He died at the hospital.
♦ Armed men opened fire at the house of Turbat Press Club President
Irshad Akhtar. The journalist and his family escaped injury. The attack appeared
to be meant to send a message to the journalist. The Balochistan Union of
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