Pakistani Journalists

Source: www.ijnet.org --- 18 days ago
Pakistani Journalists can apply to the sixth round of the Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program at Stanford University. Registration is ongoing. The fellowship program aims to co-develop the concept and community of innovation journalism in the global arena. Four countries are participating in nominating fellows this year: Sweden, Finland, Pakistan and Slovenia. read more ...

Source: www.ijnet.org --- 20 days ago
Journalists’ organizations are demanding more training and protection for Pakistani Journalists who cover hot spots, such as Baluchistan, the North-West Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. read more ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 136 days ago
Reuters - Taliban militants released two Pakistani Journalists on Saturday more than 36-hours after they were abducted in a tribal region near the Afghan border. ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 26 days ago
Two Pakistani Journalists were slightly injured when a bomb went off outside the offices of local newspapers in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan. The offices of five daily newspapers - Awam, Atemad, Intekhab, Public and Tijarat - were damaged. Once again, the president All Pakistan Newspapers Society has criticised the government for failing to giving adequate protection to Journalists, who are being persistently harassed and threatened. (Via Pakistan Press Foundation ) Pakistan Greenslade on Asia guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds ...

Source: uk.reuters.com --- 4 days ago
Nov 14 - Gunmen have shot and wounded two foreign Journalists in Peshawar, the third attack in as many days on foreigners in the northwest Pakistani city. ...

Source: blogs.guardian.co.uk --- 8 days ago
Another Pakistani journalist has been shot dead, this time by security forces. Qari Mohammad Shoaib , a reporter with the Khabar Kar daily, was said by police to have failed to stop his car during a curfew in Mingora, the main town in Pakistan's restive northwestern Swat valley. Fellow Journalists later held a protest. (Via AFP/Khaleej Times ) Pakistan guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds ...

Source: uk.reuters.com --- 4 days ago
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Militants shot and wounded two foreign Journalists on the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday, and U.S. missiles killed 12 people in a strike on a Pakistani Taliban commander's stronghold in tribal lands bordering Afghanistan. ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 1 day ago
Two Journalists, a Japanese and a Pakistani, were shot and wounded in an apparent kidnapping attempt in Pakistan's frontier city of Peshawar - the latest in a spate of attacks on foreigners and abductions in the city. ...

Source: www.aawsat.com --- 137 days ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban fighters have abducted two Pakistani Journalists who entered their stronghold in a tribal region close to the Afghan border. The militants detained the ...

Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 3 days ago
Militants have shot and wounded two foreign Journalists on the outskirts of Peshawar, and US missiles killed 12 people in a strike on a Pakistani Taliban commander's stronghold in tribal lands bordering Afghanistan. ...

Source: www.dawn.com --- 136 days ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 5 (Reuters) Taliban militants released two Pakistani Journalists on Saturday more than 36-hours after they were abducted in Pakistan’s tribal... ...

Source: www.weeklystandard.com --- 21 days ago
Noah Pollak notes the apparent contradiction between Obama's support for fighting al Qaeda in Pakistan and his silence on the U.S. cross-border attack into Syria on al Qaeda : Obama says that the United States should strike at al Qaeda in Pakistan without the consent of the Pakistani government. So, he favors attacking al Qaeda in Pakistan, but presumably not in Syria, even though al Qaeda thrives in Syria not because of lawlessness (as in Pakistan) but because the group enjoys the hospitality of the Syrian government. Maybe if the Pakistani government began openly collaborating with al Qaeda, Obama would withdraw his support for military strikes. If Obama was consistent, he would applaud the Syrian operation. His silence on the matter indicates otherwise. You’d think there were a few curious Journalists out there who might wish to get him on the record about all of this… I emailed the Obama campaign yesterday asking if they would issue a statement on the attack, and I received no response. Perhaps the mainstream press would prefer that Obama not have to take a position on a controversial foreign policy matter just days before voters have the opportunity to make him our commander in chief. ...

Source: www.weeklystandard.com --- 5 days ago
Pakistani politicians continue to blame U.S. airstrikes against Taliban and al Qaeda camps in the lawless tribal areas for alienating the public, but refuse to address their own problems in conducting counterinsurgency operations. The latest objection to U.S. military airstrikes comes from President Asif Ali Zardari and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi during a meeting with Secretary of State Rice. Qureshi's comments are particularly interesting. "These drone attacks are unproductive, and they are contributing to alienation as opposed to winning people over," Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in an interview Wednesday night. Qureshi spoke after briefing Pakistani Journalists on what he described as Zardari's 20-minute meeting with Rice and another private gathering between Zardari, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia... "And there is a collateral damage which we must avoid," Qureshi recounted, referring to U.S. strikes that have inadvertently killed civilians. "In fact, what is required is more sharing of intelligence information. What is required is building Pakistan's capacity to deal with insurgency." The United States has been conducting strikes in North and South Waziristan because intelligence strongly believes al Qaeda's next attack on the west will originate from there. Al Qaeda and the Taliban have scores of camps in the region, which crank out suicide bombers as well a ...

Source: tvnz.co.nz --- 4 days ago
Militants shot and wounded two foreign Journalists on the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday, and US missiles killed 12 people in a strike on a Pakistani Taliban commander's stronghold in tribal lands bordering Afghanistan ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 26 days ago
(By NAHAL TOOSI, Associated Press Writer) The Taliban beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now army airstrikes are killing the innocent, say refugees who fled fighting set off by a Pakistani military offensive against the Islamic extremists. The army maintains it is winning the war in the Bajur tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan, one of its most intense operations against al-Qaida and its Taliban allies since 2001. A spokesman even predicts military victory in a month. Dozens of refugees interviewed by The Associated Press this week in tent camps on both sides of the border gave a rare glimpse of the human costs of the fighting in Bajur, a highly dangerous region where foreigners are largely restricted from visiting and Pakistani Journalists have limited movement. "I feel like a walking dead body," Parmeen Bibi said as she carried her wailing 3-year-old granddaughter in a camp in Peshawar, the main city in Pakistan's troubled northwest. "I don't want to go back to that land where my innocent brothers were slaughtered," she said, referring to four brothers she says were beheaded by the Taliban for supporting the government. "To hell with those people, and to hell with those lands." Nearly 200,000 people have fled the fighting in Bajur, and many have sought refuge in the camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. For the most part, the refugees said they witnessed only airstrikes and heard artillery fire in t ...

Source: mathaba.net --- 131 days ago
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Source: www.ijnet.org --- 35 days ago
Print Journalists working in Pakistan are invited to submit entries to the 2008 ‘Gender in Journalism' Awards, instituted by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) with the support of UNESCO, Islamabad. Deadline: November 1. Articles published in Pakistani publications between January 1, 2007 and June 31, 2008, are eligible for the awards. Two awards will be presented: read more ...