Peshawar

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CPJ urges Pakistani officials to rescue Jang executive, keep other journalists safe

New York, September 29, 2016– The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the kidnapping of Abid Abdullah, executive director of the Jang media group, and called on Pakistani authorities to ensure the safety of journalists who the kidnappers explicitly threatened.

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People buy garments ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday. (AP/Mohammad Sajjad)

Seeking release of Pakistani journalist Faizullah Khan, jailed in Afghanistan

It’s not often that CPJ agrees with the Pakistan government, but here is one of the rare occasions when we do. While Pakistan journalists have been pushing for quite a while for the release of one of their colleagues, Faizullah Khan, being held in Nangahar in Afghanistan, the Islamabad government has apparently been working diplomatic…

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Pakistani reporter sentenced to 4-year prison term in Afghanistan

New York, July 14, 2014–A Pakistani television journalist was convicted on charges of travelling to Afghanistan without travel documents and sentenced to four years in prison, Pakistani officials said on Sunday. He had initially been accused of spying by Afghan authorities, according to news reports.

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Bomb explodes outside home of Express News’ Peshawar bureau chief

Jamshed Baghwan and his wife were leaving their home in the Murshidabad neighborhood in Peshawar on July 2, 2014, when they saw unidentified assailants on motorcycles placing a bomb outside their house, The Express Tribune reported. Baghwan is the Peshawar bureau chief of Express News, a TV channel owned by Express Media Group.

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Express News Peshawar bureau chief faces attacks

Masked men threw a hand grenade at the home of Express News Bureau Chief Jamshed Baghwan in the Murshadabad neighborhood of Peshawar on April 6, 2014, according to news reports. Baghwan was in his home at the time of the attack, but no one was injured, news accounts said. The main gate of the home…

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The site of a suicide bombing in Peshawar today, where more than 20 people, including at least one journalist, were killed. (AFP/A. Majeed)

Journalist killed, two injured in Pakistan suicide bombing

New York, April 16, 2013–At least one journalist was killed and two were injured in a suicide bomb attack during a political rally today in Pakistan’s northwestern provincial capital of Peshawar, according to news reports.

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