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In an alert on Monday, we reported on an attack that left at least six women and children seriously injured at the home of local television journalist Zafarullah Bonari along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. A group of unidentified attackers threw grenades and opened fire on Bonari’s house. The information was scant when we first heard about the attack in a rushed e-mail message from a member of the Bajaur chapter of the Tribal Union of Journalists.
It’s the sort of message that we respond to as quickly as
possible—local journalists under assault, asking for assistance. We confirmed details
with Mazhar
Abbas, deputy
director of ARY One World Television in
Monday’s attack is hardly an isolated incident in the region. On July 7, BBC monitoring reported that, in Bajaur, “unidentified persons threw several hand-grenades at the houses of Noor Muhammad Binori and Imran Khan, both local journalists, and ran away. Seven persons including five women and two men sustained injuries in the incidents and the houses were damaged partially.”
Having your family and house and home come under attack is part of the cost of being a journalist in a conflict area like the Af-Pak border—a reality we reported on last year in our five-part blog series, “The Frontier War.”
In July 2009, I was in
Above is one of those group pictures you always take
after a meeting like the one I had in
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