We released this statement after Dawn newspaper columnist Kamran Shafi said today that his house had been sprayed with machine gun fire on the night of November 27, in Rawalpindi...
“CPJ condemns this attack on such a prominent Pakistani journalist,” said Bob Dietz, CPJ Asia program coordinator. “Pakistan’s media environment is declining rapidly as a consequence of the political and military strife erupting under the government of President Asif Ali Zardari. Local and foreign journalists are coming under threat from all sides to the country’s many conflicts. Increasingly, Pakistan’s free press is under a threat almost as menacing as that under former president Pervez Musharraf ,” added Dietz.
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TV reporter, camera man assaulted
Sat. 21 Nov 2009 21:24 PST
ISLAMABAD: Nazim Jamia Faridia along with some armed students of the seminary on Saturday tortured the reporting team of a TV channel for coverage of the Jamia.
The reporter Waseem Ahmed Qadri nad his cameraman Bilal Mughal came to Jamia Faridia to take their stance regarding detention of an alleged terrorist who reportedly hailed from Jamia Faridia as disclosed by Islamabad IG Syed Kalim Imam during a press conference.
When they approached the Jamia they were assaulted and tortured by the armed men deployed at its main-gate. They were also held hostage in a room of the Jamia for some time.
Later at the intervention of some individuals in the Jamia, the armed men released the media persons and passed killing threats and chased them as far as their office.
The TV channel has reported the matter to the Kohsar Police Station against this maltreatment, on which the police have filed a case against the armed men and the nazim. -The National Report