By Fidel Rahmati in THe Khaama Press Online, November 27, 2023A survey by the Afghanistan Women’s Journalist Association (AWJA) revealed that female journalists in Afghanistan deal with multiple challenges, including limited access to information. The AWJA’s findings reveal that female journalists grapple with multiple issues, including job insecurity, financial constraints, and other significant restrictions that hinder their ability to work effectively. Mina Habib, the head of AWJA, emphasized that the survey revealed significant issues faced…
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report in Dawn, August 14th, 2023SUKKUR: Jan Mohammad Mahar, a senior journalist associated with a private Sindhi newspaper and its TV channel, was shot dead by armed men riding a motorcycle near St. Saviour School on Queens Road here on late Sunday evening. According to the area police, the assailants shot several fires on Mr Mahar, who was travelling by his car. The journalist received several bullets to his head and near his eyes, the…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, June 19, 2023Reports emerged that Reza Shaheer, a leading journalist of ‘Rah-e-Farda’ TV channel who had freshly returned from Iran, was arrested in Zabul and taken to an unknown place, while Taliban provincial officials rejected his arrest. Previously, Reza Shaheer had been detained by the de facto authorities of Afghanistan, which forced him to move to Iran to get a French visa. Upon his return from Iran,…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, April 6, 2023Three journalists were arrested by the Taliban forces in Baghlan province in Northern Afghanistan, local sources said. Three journalists, including two reporters from Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) and a journalist for the private TV Tanwir, were arrested from their area in Pule-e-Khumri, the capital city of Baghlan province, on Thursday morning. Ghulam Ali Wahdat, a journalist for Tanwir TV, Safiullah Wafa and Noor Agha, reporters from…
Report in The News, March 22,2023KOHAT: Unidentified terrorists attacked the house of a journalist, damaging the abode partially here on Tuesday. The police said that unknown terrorists carried out a blast on the main gate and then opened fire with automatic weapons on the house of Syed Yasir Shah, district correspondent for The News International and Geo. However, the inmates remained unharmed but the main gate and the house were partially damaged. Soon after the…
by Agha Iqrar Haroon in Pakistan Today, Jan 23, 2023(The writer is an international award winning journalist who has been in the field since 1988 and appears in national and international media as analyst and political scientist)On January 19, in response to the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) directive to provide details with regards to Toshakhana gifts, the PML(N)-led Federal Government excused itself from complying with the orders, arguing that it may lead to damaging Pakistan’s…
Editorial in Dawn, January 17th, 2023WHEN it comes to press freedom, the arrest of journalist Shahid Aslam highlights the weaknesses in our democracy and the state’s failure to do the right thing. Mr Aslam was arrested by the FIA after the publication of an online story about retired army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa’s taxes and wealth statements last November. According to the article, Gen Bajwa’s family amassed billions of rupees in the last six years.…
REPORT IN THE NATION, JAN 12, 2023PESHAWAR – Unknown men attacked the house of a Parachinar-based journalist Mohammad Ali Turi with hand grenade followed an attempt of putting it on fire, police said on Wednesday. Mohammad Ali Turi is the producer of a local radio and a private TV channel. The attack damaged different sections of the house including rooms, beside damaging doors, windowpanes and a vehicle parked inside the house. However, his family remained…
by Zahid Hussain in Dawn, December 21st, 2022The writer is an author and journalist.THE events of the past week present a theatre of the absurd. Hours after Imran Khan announced his long-awaited decision to dissolve the Punjab Assembly, Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi made it clear that he was not on board. Khan’s outburst against his erstwhile benefactor, former army chief retired Gen Bajwa, apparently was the reason for breaking his vows. It may not…
by (Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya in Daily Mirror online, Dec 10, 2022The US has imposed sanction on another Sri Lankan military officer, Major Prabath Bulathwatte who was arrested on suspicion that he had assisted in the abduction and torture of senior Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr in 2008. The US took this action on Friday on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day and on the eve of International Human Rights Day as part of its actions…
Never ending instability
by Syed Fakhar Kakakhel in TNS, Dec11, 2022The writer is a Peshawar-based journalist, researcher and trainerThe recent attempt on the life of a Pakistani diplomat in Kabul has raised concerns about the law and order situation in Afghanistan. According to Taliban sources, the assailant was of Turkmen descent. If that is indeed the case, it speaks of an alarming development. Why should a Central Asian militant pick a Pakistani diplomat for a target? Pakistan has…