Six days after the attack against columnist Kamran Shafi in Pakistan’s Punjab region, police have made little progress in bringing the perpetrators to justice. Shafi’s house in the city of Wah was fired upon by unknown gunmen late on 27 November. Shafi and his family were inside the house at the time of the attack. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) calls for a transparent investigation into the 14 August murder of Aaj TV correspondent Sadiq Bacha Khan, who was gunned down in broad daylight on his way to work in Mardan, a town in the restive North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Khan was a former president of the Mardan […]

His Excellency Gen. Pervez Musharraf President Islamic Republic of Pakistan Islamabad Pakistan Fax: + 92-51-922-4206 Vienna, 12 March 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is concerned about the use of advertising to pressure newspapers in Pakistan into curtailing their […]

His Excellency Gen. Pervez Musharraf President and Chief Executive Islamic Republic of Pakistan Rawalpindi Pakistan Fax: + 92 51 922 4206 Vienna, 30 January 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, is deeply concerned for the safety of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped […]