The bullet-ridden body of missing Pakistani journalist Javed Naseer Rind was found on Wednesday near Khuzdar, in the federal province of Balochistan, Pakistani media reported. Reportedly in his mid-twenties, Mr. Rind was a sub-editor and respected columnist at the Daily Tawar, a local Urdu-language paper. He was abducted on 10 September by unidentified men from […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemned the murder of senior Pakistani journalist Razzaq Gul, a reporter at Express News in Turbat city, in southern Balochistan. Gul was found dead in the Kech district of Pakistan’s Balochistan Province on May 19, 2012. According to the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Gul was reported missing near […]

In a street protest organised yesterday by the Balochistan Union of Journalists outside the Quetta Press Club in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, journalists called on their government to provide protection to media persons and arrest the killers of a journalist who was slain a few days ago, Down.com and other local news outlets reported. The protests […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday expressed concern at increasing violence against journalists in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, after a banned militant group threatened to target six journalists from the district of Khuzdar. A man who introduced himself as a spokesperson for the “Baloch Musallah Defa Army” (BMDA) called the press club in […]