Geneva: Pakistan has slowly turned into a graveyard of working journalists as the south Asian nation loses another journalist, tenth victim this year till date, to assailants. Local media reports confirm that senior journalist Nisar Lehri was shot dead on 4 September 2024 in Mastung locality of Balochistan. Lehri (50), a member of Mastung press…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expresses utter shock over the relentless murder of journalists in Pakistan, as the south Asian nation has lost its seventh scribe to assailants this year. Condemning the gunning down of Khalil Afridi Jibran (55), a television journalist of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on 18 June…
New Delhi. Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has admitted that Islamabad ‘violated’ an agreement with Bharat in 1999. His revelation came to light at a Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) general council meeting. During the meeting, Nawaz Sharif said the then-Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Lahore, and signed the Lahore Declaration on…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the killing of another journalist in Pakistan within a fortnight and demands a fair probe into the incident, where Mehar Ashfaq Siyal was shot dead in Muzaffargarh locality of Punjab province by the miscreants. Mehar, who was associated with…
In yet another demolition of Hindu religious places, a historical Hindu temple near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has been demolished for a commercial complex. This has sparked outrage among local communities and highlighting concerns over the preservation of religious heritage. The ‘Khyber Temple,’ located in the border town of Landi Kotal…
Bharat on Sunday hit out at Pakistan at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), saying lectures by a country with an abysmal track record of democracy is laughable and advised it to stop its terror factories to launch cross-border terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir. During the 148th Assembly of the IPU in Geneva, Switzerland, Rajya Sabha Deputy…
Geneva, Switzerland: One more journalist of Pakistan named Muhammad Younis was shot dead by unidentified assailants on 27 August 2022 in Jhang district of Punjab province. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body expresses serious concern on the relentless murder of journalists in the south-Asian nation and demanded stringent actions against…
