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Pakistani journalist killed in NW

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LiuKangBakinPie

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Gunmen have killed local Pakistani journalist Mukarram Khan Atif in Shabqadar town in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of the country, Press TV reports.


Officials said the gunmen had opened fire at the journalist outside his home on Tuesday evening, critically injuring him. Khan Atif was then transported to a local hospital in Peshawar city but died on the way.

Khan Atif, who was working with local news channel Dunya TV and the Voice of America's Pashto language radio service, was receiving death threats from militant groups and had recently moved from Mohmand Agency to Shabqadar town, his family said.

Meanwhile, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the killing.

"We killed him after he refused to give coverage to the TTP," a TTP spokesman told local reporters.

Tribal Union of Journalists president Safdar Dawar said the journalists will stage a protest rally against the killing in Peshawar.


President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the journalist's killing.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221600.html

Mukarram Khan Aatif, Freelance
January 17, 2012, in Shabqadar, Pakistan
Javed Naseer Rind, Daily Tawar
November, in Khuzdar, Pakistan
Faisal Qureshi, London Post
October 7, 2011, in Lahore, Pakistan
Shafiullah Khan, The News
June 17, 2011, in Wah Cantonment, Pakistan
Asfandyar Khan, Akhbar-e-Khyber
June 11, 2011, in Peshawar, Pakistan
Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times Online
May 29 or 30, 2011, in Mandi Bahauddin, Pakistan
Nasrullah Khan Afridi, Khyber News Agency, Pakistan Television, Mashreq
May 10, 2011, in Peshawar, Pakistan
Wali Khan Babar, Geo TV
January 13, 2011, in Karachi, Pakistan
Pervez Khan, Waqt TV
December 6, 2010, in Ghalanai, Pakistan
Abdul Wahab, Express News
December 6, 2010, in Ghalanai, Pakistan
Misri Khan, Ausaf and Mashriq
September 14, 2010, in Hangu, Pakistan
Ejaz Raisani, Samaa TV
September 6, 2010, in Quetta, Pakistan
Ejazul Haq, City-42 TV
May 28, 2010, in Lahore, Pakistan
Ghulam Rasool Birhamani, Daily Sindhu Hyderabad
May 9 or 10, 2010, in Wahi Pandhi, Pakistan
Azamat Ali Bangash, Samaa TV
April 17, 2010, in Orakzai, Pakistan
Malik Arif, Samaa TV
April 16, 2010, in Quetta, Pakistan
Janullah Hashimzada, Shamshad TV
August 24, 2009, in Jamrud, Pakistan
Musa Khankhel, Geo TV and The News
February 18, 2009, in Swat, Pakistan
Tahir Awan, freelance
January 4, 2009, in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
Mohammad Imran, Express TV
January 4, 2009, in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
Abdul Razzak Johra, Royal TV
November 3, 2008, in Punjab, Pakistan
Abdul Aziz Shaheen, Azadi
August 29, 2008, in Swat, Pakistan
Mohammed Ibrahim, Express TV and Daily Express
May 22, 2008, in Khar, Pakistan
Siraj Uddin, The Nation
February 29, 2008, in Mingora, Pakistan
Chishti Mujahid, Akbar-e-Jehan
February 9, 2008, in Quetta, Pakistan
Zubair Ahmed Mujahid, Jang
November 23, 2007, in Mirpur Khas, Pakistan
Muhammad Arif, ARY One World TV
October 19, 2007, in Karachi, Pakistan
Javed Khan, Markaz and DM Digital TV
July 3, 2007, in Islamabad, Pakistan
Noor Hakim Khan, Daily Pakistan
June 2, 2007, in Bajaur, Pakistan
Mehboob Khan, freelance
April 28, 2007, in Charsadda, Pakistan
Hayatullah Khan, freelance
June 16, 2006, in Miran Shah, Pakistan
Munir Ahmed Sangi, Kawish Television Network (KTN)
May 29, 2006, in Larkana, Pakistan
Allah Noor, Khyber TV
February 7, 2005, in Wana, Pakistan
Amir Nowab , Associated Press Television News and Frontier Post
February 7, 2005, in Wana, Pakistan
Sajid Tanoli, Shumal
January 29, 2004, in Mansehra, Pakistan
Fazal Wahab, freelance
January 21, 2003, in Mingora, Pakistan
Shahid Soomro, Kawish
October 20, 2002, in Kandhkot, Pakistan
Daniel Pearl, The Wall Street Journal
Date unknown in 2002, in Karachi, Pakistan
Sufi Mohammad Khan, Ummat
May 2, 2000, in Badin, Pakistan
Z.A. Shahid, Khabrain
January 18, 1997, in Lahore, Pakistan
Mohammad Samdani Warsi, Parcham
December 6, 1994, in Karachi, Pakistan
Mohammed Salahuddin, Takbeer
December 4, 1994, in Karachi, Pakistan


2 Media Workers Killed in Pakistan
Terminology explained
Mohammad Sarwar, Aaj TV
September 3, 2010, in Quetta, Pakistan
Mian Iqbal Shah, Peshawar Press Club
December 22, 2009, in Peshawar, Pakistan


14 Journalists Killed in Pakistan/Motive Unconfirmed
Terminology explained
Muneer Shakir, Online News Network, Sabzbaat TV
August 14, 2011, in Khuzdar, Pakistan
Zaman Ibrahim, Daily Extra News
April 2, 2011, in Karachi, Pakistan
Abdost Rind, freelance
February 18, 2011, in Turbat, Pakistan
Ilyas Nizzar, Darwanth
January 3, 2011, in Pidarak, Pakistan
Mehmood Chandio, Awaz
December 5, 2010, in Mirpurkhas, Pakistan
Lala Hameed Baloch, Daily Intikhab
November 18, 2010, in an area outside Turbat, Pakistan
Siddique Bacha Khan, Aaj TV
August 14, 2009, in Mardan, Pakistan
Wasi Ahmad Qureshi, Daily Azadi, Balochistan Express
April 16, 2009, in Khuzdar, Pakistan
Raja Assad Hameed, The Nation, Waqt TV
March 26, 2009, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Khadim Hussain Sheikh, Sindh TV and Khabrein
April 14, 2008, in Hub, Pakistan
Mohammad Ismail, Pakistan Press International
November 1, 2006, in Islamabad, Pakistan
Asadullah, Freelancer
September 1, 2001, in Karachi, Pakistan
Nawaz Zulfiqar Memon, The Nation
December 3, 1999, in Islamabad, Pakistan
Carlos Mavroleon, Freelancer
August 27, 1998, in Peshawar, Pakistan


This is the 43rd journalist killed in Pakistan. It makes it the most dangerous country for a reporter in the world. Other news reports said the journalist has been on the Talibans list for some time and people must expect more to follow. I mean seriously. Are they trying to create a terror by threatening people who uses the right of free speech. It think the extremist groups around the world are beginning to lost the plot. Taliban has lost the plot ages ago but still.


Apologies for the above source but I heard the story on our local news and it was the best one I could find so far
 
LiuKangBakinPie said:
Fair enough. But they are targeting all journalists. People that are expressing free speech. They will target them all over the world. Not just Pakistan.
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umm yea, we all know that radical islamic nut jobs are scared shitless of free speech and will kill you for it.
 
Any group not in control, who faces opposition, faces the fact that fair journalism harms it compared to when the press is controlled.

Note that every press organization in the Middle East except Al-Jazeera is government controlled, making Al-Jazeera very popular with people as the only accurate source.

The question is whether political groups put the common good of fair journalism ahead of their partisan interests.

The answer is that groups often do not do so - but not only there, here also. The difference is, there, it's about these radical groups and killing the journalists.

Here, that's not really the case. But we do have partisan movements undermining journalism.

The first thing is attacking fair journalism - the big lie of repirition is used to fool people into falling for the 'liberal media' myth.

A lot mot of money paid for a lot of repeating of the lie, and it's fooled a lot of people. One funny thing - the one 'fact' that has been used so much for this lie was one study that found that most reporters were politically liberal. Now, the point was lost that maybe some of the most informed people being so heavily liberal had something to do with the liberals being correct. Hmm! No, it had to be 'bias'. Also ignored was the issue whether the personal opinion carried over to the stories. Just assumed it did.

But also, it ignored the finding that the editors were mostly conservative - and the owners almost universally conservative IIRC - and they actually control the content.

So the facts are the bias is for a 'conservative media' - but the big lie let them lie about that by repeating the false claim of the 'liberal media'.

With this attack going on against the media, the alternatives were put in place - the Rev. Moon's Washington Times, Roger Aiels' Fox News subsidized by Rupert Murdoch, the talk-radio industry - who of course are shamefully biased but positioned themselves by making a fortune off of the 'liberal media' lie providing an alternative.

It's the equivalent of Pepsi saying not just 'they taste better than Coke', but 'Coke is poison'.

Now, this isn't violence - but it's the western version of the same issue of some radicals tired of the media exposing their lies, they try to get control of the media not by violence but with this approach of undermining media and using wealth interests to fund an alternative - and it's worked to largely influence the American political system, far beter than the violence in Pakistan - an especially evil approach which can be very effective, unfortunately. The journalists who face that are largely heroes for journalism.

Character Assassination, actual assassination - different techniques, similar motives.

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OutHouse said:
umm yea, we all know that radical islamic nut jobs are scared shitless of free speech and will kill you for it.
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Who said anything about Islamic nutjobs. Pakistan is Islamic as well but womans activist shot in Texas and journalist shot in Pakistan. Basically because they open their own mouth too much according to some
 
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