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Journalists killed in Syria and Pakistan

A well-known Syrian journalist working for a pro-government television channel was killed yesterday in a sniper attack near the country’s border with Lebanon, according to international reports. Al-Jazeera reported that Yara Abbas, 26, a war correspondent for the al-Ikhbariya television channel, was killed by opposition gunfire in an offensive by forces loyal to President Bashar […]

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Missing journalist found dead in Pakistan

The murder of Pakistani journalist Abdul Razzak Baloch, whose body was found last week, seven months after the journalist went missing on March 24, is a sad reminder of the challenges journalists face in Pakistan, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Baloch, a copy editor for the Balochistan-based newspaper Daily Tawaar, is the eighth […]

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Nine journalists killed so far in Pakistan

A journalist was killed in Pakistan’s province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa last week, the ninth so far this year in the South Asian country. Pakistan is the second deadliest country for journalists so far this year, after Syria, where 12 journalists were killed since January, according to IPI’s Death Watch. Ayub Khan Khattak, a reporter for a […]

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Activists attack Pakistan TV station, leaving one dead

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned an attack on local TV channel ARY News in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi by activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) that left at least one person dead and several others injured. The violence occurred shortly after MQM chief Altaf Hussain, who lives in self-imposed exile […]

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