The body of 30-year-old journalist Ghulam Rasool Birhamani was found by police outside Dadu on 10 May. According to the president of the Dadu Press Club, the reporter for the Sindhu Hyderabad daily newspaper had been threatened by members of the Lashari tribe after as he reported on the marriage of an underage girl from the tribe. Birhamani suffered a fatal injury.
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Pakistan: Journalist’s mutilated body found
The body of 30-year-old journalist Ghulam Rasool Birhamani was found by police outside Dadu on 10 May. According to the president of the Dadu Press Club, the reporter for the Sindhu Hyderabad daily newspaper had been threatened by members of the Lashari tribe after as he reported on the marriage of an underage girl from the tribe. […]
By Intern
13 May 10
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