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Pakistan's war on truth: Journalists targeted and silenced for exposing re
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A local journalist, Muhammad Manaf, has condemned the continuing pattern of attacks and harassment against journalists in Pakistan, saying that such incidents are "nothing new" and that press freedom in the country remains largely an illusion.
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Journalist gunned down in Sindh as Pakistan fails to protect its press
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A local journalist, Tufail Ahmed Rind, was brutally shot dead by armed assailants in Mirpur Mathelo on Wednesday morning while he was taking his children to school, as reported by ARY News.
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Pakistan: Journalist in Sindh stages his own kidnapping for ransom
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
A journalist from Khairpur district in Sindh, Pakistan, staged his own kidnapping for ransom in a plot to frame his cousins over a land dispute. The deception sparked protests among local journalists and led to his dismissal by his employer, KTN News Group.
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Numbers Protocol to Help India Media Fight Disinformation and Deep Fakes D
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 23: Blockchain firm is going to work with local journalists and civil society groups to verify the authenticity of digital media. Numbers Protocol, a Taiwan-based blockchain content verification company, has launched a project in collaboration with local journalists
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Pakistan: Four, including journalist injured in firing incidents in Karach
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Four people--including a local journalist --were wounded in separate gunfire incidents in Karachi on Sunday, ARY News reported.
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Repression of media personnel continues in Afghanistan as Taliban detains
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 13 (ANI): Amid the ongoing crackdown on journalists in Afghanistan, another incident has come to light as a local journalist in the central province of Kapisa, Abdul Hanan Mohammadi has been detained by the Taliban for almost three months now without any crime,
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Local journalist shot dead by unidentified men in Pak's Sindh province
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 31 (ANI): Local journalist, Murtaza Shar, was gunned down on Sunday in the Sanghar district of Sindh province, local media reported.
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Local journalist shot dead outside Lahore Press Club by unidentified men
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], January 24 (ANI): Local journalist, Hasnain Shah was shot dead outside Lahore Press Club (LPC) on Monday inciting condemnation from media persons across the spectrum.
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Journalist killed in Bihar, protest erupts in Madhubani
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Madhubani (Bihar) [India], November 14 (ANI): A local journalist and an RTI activist, who was allegedly kidnapped, was killed in Bihar's Benipatti, said the police on Sunday.
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Thousands of people displaced in Afghanistan's Kandahar amid Taliban offen
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] July 27 (ANI): An average of over one hundred thousand people from 22,000 families has been displaced to secure areas of Kandahar city in Afghanistan according to survey cited by local journalists.
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'5 Taliban terrorists killed in US airstrikes in Afghan provinces over pas
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 22 (ANI): At least five Taliban terrorists have been killed in airstrikes carried out in several provinces in Afghanistan over the past three days, according to a local journalist who claims to have sourced the information from multiple Afghan officials.
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2 dead, over 10 injured amid clashes between demonstrators, police in Colo
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], May 18 (ANI/Sputnik): At least two people died and more than 10 were injured in the latest clashes with law enforcement in Colombia's western municipality of Yumbo, where strikes and demonstrations have been ongoing since last month, a local journalist told Sputnik.
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