The following are remarks made by the Balochistan information minister, Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal, at a public dialogue on media safety at a meeting of Pakistan Coalition on Media Safety (PCOMS) in Quetta on November 15, 2014. People have a right to freedom of expression and this right needs ... Read More »
A Baloch journalist is reported missing from Balochistan’s Quetta capital city since 7 November 2014 (Friday), his family confirms to Freedom Network [FN] on 11 November 2014. “We don’t know who may have taken him away,” Imam Bukhsh Bugti, uncle of missing journalist Manzoor Ahmed Bugti, 24, who works ... Read More »
An Afghan journalist working for Voice of Germany (VoG) Pashto Service in Quetta, provincial capital of southwestern Balochistan province, has been forced to leave Pakistan after receiving threatening phone calls. The calls from unidentifiable and identifiable telephone numbers warned him against filing reports that “go against our policies.” Habibur ... Read More »
Freedom Network [FN] has expressed grave concern at security threats to journalists in Khuzdar district of Balochistan and closure of its press club and has urged the provincial government to stand by the media and bring those threatening journalists to justice. Khuzdar is the deadliest district in Balochistan and ... Read More »
Ijaz Mengal, brother of underground Baloch journalist Riaz Mengal, was gunned down in Khuzdar district of Balochistan on February 14 and a separatist group claimed responsibility for the attack. “He was killed because of threats I am facing till now,” Riaz Mengal, who is living outside Balochistan for the ... Read More »
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