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Pakistani TV reporter shot dead

17 Aug 2009 | Index Index, minipost

TV journalist Siddique Bacha Khan has been shot dead in the city of Mardan in Pakistan’s restive North West Frontier Province. Unidentified gunmen ambushed Bacha Khan, news correspondent for the independent Aaj TV channel, and shot him at close range before fleeing the scene. The journalist was critically injured and died en route to the hospital, according to Aaj TV and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. Read more here

South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN)

20 May 2009 | Resources

The South Asia Media Solidarity Network is an alliance of journalists’ trade unions, press freedom organisations and journalists in South Asia committed to working together to promote freedom of expression, freedom of association and journalists’ rights in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

20 May 2009 | Resources

The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is an independent media research, documentation and training centre working to promote and defend freedom of the press.

UK film crew attacked in Pakistan flees country

15 May 2009 | Index Index, minipost

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.
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