Re: Pakistan ranked 152 out of 169 countries in terms of free media
what is WTF? are you using your mothertongue?
That was the recent example. Read these links and decide what is WTF?
UPDATE (Pakistan): Missing journalist found dead in Pakistan
UPDATE ON URGENT APPEAL UPDATE ON URGENT APPEAL UPDATE ON URGENT APPEAL
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Update on Urgent Appeal
19 June 2006
[Re: UA-145-2006: PAKISTAN: Journalists to stage protest over rights of those in the media]
UP-127-2006: PAKISTAN: Missing journalist found dead in Pakistan
PAKISTAN: Extra-judicial killing; disappearance; alleged government involvement
Dear friends,
It is with much regret that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the death of Pakistan journalist, Mr. Hayat Ullah Khan. In a May 2006 appeal (UA-145-2006) the AHRC asked the Government of Pakistan to produce Mr. Khan in a court of law without further delay. Mr. Khan was disappeared on 5 December 2005 and had not been seen since. It is suspected that Mr. Khan had been handed over to armed forces from the United States serving in Pakistan. Sadly, Mr. Khan’s dead body was found on June 15.
Since Mr. Khan’s disappearance many human rights organisations around the world had been campaigning for his release. Mr. Khan’s family was repeatedly informed by intelligence agencies and government officials that they would receive good news on Mr. Khan on or around June 15. However, on the very day that they believed Mr. Khan would be returned safely to them, his family learned that he had been found but was in fact dead. Mr. Khan’s body was located outside a village in Mir Ali in the North Waziristan tribal region. His hands had been chained together and he had bullet marks in the back of his body. He was also still wearing the same clothes he had worn on the day that he disappeared.
On that day, 5 December 2005, Mr. Khan had taken photographs indicating US involvement in the missile attack on the house of Egyptian born Al-Qaeda operative Hamza Rabia. Though Pakistani officials claim that Rabia had died from one of his own home-made bombs, Mr. Khan’s photographs showed shrapnel at the scene from a Hellfire missile which had allegedly been fired by an American plane. Evidently, the photographs contradicted the officials claim.
Mr. Khan worked for national dailies and western wire photo services. He was kidnapped by five armed masked men while traveling with his younger brother to cover a student’s demonstration on December 5. He is the third tribal journalist who was killed while covering militants’ activities and the military operation in the tribal areas close to the border of Afghanistan. In February 2005 two journalists had been gunned down by masked men in Wana, South Waziristan.
The military government of Pakistan has been operating in the South Waziristan area since 2002. During this time they have bombarded the area and threatened media persons and media organisations for reporting on military operations. Recently one journalist in Sindh province was shot dead by the guards of a provincial minister and two journalists in the same province were attacked and shot at by men working for a provincial minister of the military government. Since the military take-over in 1999, seven journalists have been killed, two are missing and several have been injured.
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and the All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation are today observing a black day in protest against the killing of journalists. The AHRC fully supports this day and strongly condemns the actions of the military government in their treatment of media persons and media organisations in the country.
Pakistani journalists protest over killing of colleague
Asian Political News, June 19, 2006
ISLAMABAD, June 19 Kyodo
Pakistani journalists on Monday decided to indefinitely boycott proceedings of the National Assembly and weekly Foreign Ministry briefings to protest the killing of a colleague in a tribal area last week.
‘‘We have decided to boycott the Foreign Ministry briefing to protest against the killing of our colleague and demand an independent inquiry by a Supreme Court judge,’’ Aroosa Alam, vice president of the National Press Club, told ministry spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam before walking out.
Alam said that journalists were boycotting the weekly briefing to draw the attention of the international community to the killing of the journalist and the state of press freedoms in Pakistan.
Pakistani journalists protest over killing
June 4, 2006 10:08 AM
Journalists staged a token walkout from the Senate press gallery in Islamabad in protest at the increasing incidents of violence against reporters and editors. They are incensed at the police inaction following the killing of Munir Solangi, a reporter for the Kawish television network who was shot while filming a gun battle. Sangi’s colleagues believe he was targeted by the authorities. (Via DailyTimes - National
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=56931
PAKISTAN: Call for probe into killing of journalist
Committee to Protect Journalists alarmed about how many journalists have been attacked in recent years
Dawn
Thursday, November 2, 2006
New York — The Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday called on the Pakistan government to order an immediate, high-level investigation into Wednesday’s murder of Mohammad Ismail, Islamabad bureau chief for the Pakistan Press International (PPI).
“Mohammad Ismail’s murder must be fully investigated,” said Joel Simon, CPJ’s executive director in a statement here.
"An alarming number of Pakistani journalists have been killed with impunity in the last four years.
“The government must show that it is determined to end this very poor record by waging a timely and thorough investigation,” he added.
Date Posted: 10/2/2006
I can go on and on. As I said this is one of the causes of why Pakistan being rated so low. I advise you to be more mature while responding to my posts. I can also use that kind of language but I preferred not to be a Jahil third class yankee.