Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, a well known television anchor with the country’s Geo TV, escaped a bid on his life on Monday, after an explosive device was found under his car. The bomb, stuck under the front passenger seat of Hamid Mir’s car, was defused by a bomb disposal squad, according to Geo News. “It […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Nepal’s government not to allow the murder of a journalist early Wednesday morning to go unpunished. The chair of IPI’s Nepal National Committee, Padma Singh Karki, said print and television journalist Yadav Poudel, 38, was found dead in Birtamod in the south-eastern Nepalese district of Jhapa at approximately […]

An Indian journalist hospitalised after being beaten over the head by unknown assailants died on Friday of his injuries while being transferred to a second hospital after his condition deteriorated. Indian media reported that the journalist, Rajesh Mishra, worked as an editor for Media Raj, a Hindi weekly published in the city of Rewa, Madya […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemned the recent killings of journalists in Pakistan, India and Syria and reiterated its deep concern over the disappearance of three journalists in Syria, who have been missing for several weeks. In Pakistan, Abdul Haq Baloch, 37, correspondent for ARY News television station and Secretary of the Khuzdar Press Club, […]