Leading Pakistani journalist says barred from leaving country over article

[Reichsmarschall]

Its. Some government tried doing that in India and got an blackened face. In India they have too much freedom than necessary

I think it's the high time that you should pull out your head out of your rear end to see some reality
https://rsf.org/en/ranking

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

I think it's the high time that you should pull out your head out of your rear end to see some reality
https://rsf.org/en/ranking

Lol. Still behind us. And our army or RAW dont involve in kidnapping or killing of journos.

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Saleem Shahzad was killed for revealing the nexus between some naval person and Al quaida ???
This Guy is also about to die or permanently silenced due to some pressures

Missing Pakistan journalist Saleem Shahzad found dead near Islamabad

A prominent Pakistani journalist who investigated links between the military and al-Qaida has been found dead, triggering angry accusations against the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.

Saleem Shahzad, Pakistan correspondent for a news service based in Hong Kong, disappeared on his way to a television interview in Islamabad on Sunday evening. On Tuesday ,police said they found his body on a canal bank in Mandi Bahauddin, 80 miles south-east of the capital.

Shahzad's abandoned car was found 25 miles away. Television images of his body showed heavy bruising to his face. Media reports said he had a serious trauma wound to the stomach.

Human Rights Watch had already raised the alarm over the disappearance of the 40-year-old father of three, citing a "reliable interlocutor" who said he had been abducted by ISI.

"This killing bears all the hallmarks of previous killings perpetrated by Pakistani intelligence agencies," said a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch in south Asia, Ali Dayan Hasan. He called for a "transparent investigation and court proceedings".

Other journalists reacted angrily, directly accusing ISI of responsibility on television and social media. "Any journalist here who doesn't believe that it's our intelligence agencies?" tweeted Mohammed Hanif, a bestselling author.

"We want an answer. We need an answer. We deserve an answer," said talk-show host Quatrina Husain.

A senior ISI official told the Associated Press that allegations of the agency's involvement were absurd.

Shahzad, who worked for the online service Asia Times Online and the Italian news agency Adnkronos, vanished two days after publishing a story alleging Pakistan military officials had been in secret negotiations with al-Qaida.

The story claimed the terrorist group had attacked the Mehran naval base in Karachi on 22 May after talks with the military to release two naval officials accused of militant links broke down.

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As a reporter, Shahzad was known for delving deep into the murky underworld of Islamist militancy. He had interviewed some of the most notorious leaders, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, a major player in the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, and Ilyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani militant who works for al-Qaida.

He had just published a book calledInside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11.

Zaffar Abbas, editor of Dawn, Pakistan's most respected paper, paid tribute to Shahzad as "a fine reporter, one of a breed of Pakistani journalists who really believe in investigative journalism". In the light of the death, he is was looking at scaling back his own paper's coverage.

"I am seriously considering the entire process of reporting, and to what extent I can put my own team at risk. It is becoming increasingly dangerous for people to openly report, whether militants or security agencies are involved."

Pakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, expressed his "deep grief and sorrow" over Shahzad's death and ordered an inquiry, saying that "the culprits would be brought to book at every cost".

Hopes for any inquiry, however, were low. Although the ISI technically reports to Gilani, in reality it is controlled by the army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani. Although accused of numerous human rights abuses over the years, serving ISI officials have never been prosecuted.

Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan termed Shahzad's death a "heinous crime" but avoided mention of the ISI, instead blaming the "servile policies [of] a corrupt and inept government".

Pakistan is the world's most dangerous country for journalists, according to Reporters without Borders, which says that 16 journalists have been killed in the past 14 months. Some of the worst excesses occurred in western province of Balochistan.

Last September Umar Cheema, another investigative reporter, was abducted from Islamabad for six hours and tortured before being released. He said he suspected that his kidnappers belonged to the ISI.

Shahzad was buried in an unmarked grave on Monday, after local police failed to identify his body. His remains were exhumed on Tuesday on orders from President Asif Ali Zardari's office. An autopsy is due.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/31/missing-pakistan-journalist-found-dead

You dumb Chaddi whats the point in sharing 5 year old article
@Horus too many safftonis on PDF these

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

Indian going to arrest decorated and awarded veteran actor Om Puri just for speaking truth and peace but Indian feels good to post when a paid media stooge is being questioned over his article where he claims many things which can't be proved or simple lies.

lol.....

 

[Crixus]

Isnt it a bit pre mature statement ????

Indian going to arrest decorated and awarded veteran actor Om Puri just for speaking truth and peace but Indian feels good to post when a paid media stooge is being questioned over his article where he claims many things which can't be proved or simple lies.

 

[Zibago]

Exactly, He considers Pakistan his home forever and not a 'sell-out' entirely.

http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/g...shahid-masood-ihc-issues-notice-to-pemra.html
Same crime should get same punishment

 

[Crixus]

you are sharing a Pakistani news share some reliable source about your claim any way no one claimed that India is haven for Jurnos

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/154560-Gagged-Indian-govt-bans-newspaper-in-IoK
Now it's confirmed that in which body position you are

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[Reichsmarschall]

you are sharing a Pakistani news share some reliable source about your claim any way no one claimed that India is haven for Jurnos

tell this to your fellow countryman who was saing journalists are enjoying some ulta freedom in india

 

[Crixus]

Even my my fellow country men also not claimed India is haven for journos

tell this to your fellow countryman who was saing journalists are enjoying some ulta freedom in india

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Misleading the people and trying to create a wedge between civ-mil ties is sedition. At least he hasn't been arrested, he's still free to go to his job and do his journalism - even if we dont agree with some of the half truth garbage he writes.

What other certain nearby country does to Kashmiri human rights activists such as Khurram Pervez is far more sinister and worthy of discussion and confrontation

tell this to your fellow countryman who was saing journalists are enjoying some ulta freedom in india

i heard through some channels that lady reporter "burkha dutt" has been receiving many death threats, threats of rape and bodily harm by the internet RSS/bakhts and their third-rate fanboys who pollute the internet especially social media

Shabnam Lone - a Kashmiri (lawyer by profession, not an activist or reporter) has also received the same treatment to the point that she's even questioning whether it makes sense to live in such a hostile and intolerant nation

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Misleading the people and trying to create a wedge between civ-mil ties is sedition. At least he hasn't been arrested, he's still free to go to his job and do his journalism - even if we dont agree with some of the half truth garbage he writes.

What other certain nearby country does to Kashmiri human rights activists such as Khurram Pervez is far more sinister and worthy of discussion and confrontation



i heard through some channels that lady reporter "burkha dutt" has been receiving many death threats, threats of rape and bodily harm by the internet RSS/bakhts and their third-rate fanboys who pollute the internet especially social media

Shabnam Lone - a Kashmiri (lawyer by profession, not an activist or reporter) has also received the same treatment to the point that she's even questioning whether it makes sense to live in such a hostile and intolerant nation

Yes Sir you are right she is from NDTV, & she often shares screenshots of abuses and death threats by Bakhts
and see how they forces journalists to make fabricated stories
http://www.siasat.com/news/kashmiri-journalist-quits-ibn7-forced-fabricated-stories-kashmir-1011008/

Kashmiri journalist quits IBN7 after ‘forced to do fabricated’ stories on Kashmir
August 31, 2016 Kashmir, News 0 Comments

A Kashmiri Journalist working for an Indian news channel has resigned, alleging that the channel was “forcing” him to prepare “fabricated anti-Kashmir” reports.


journalist Naseer Ahmed who was affiliated with Zee News Network for 16 years had joined Noida based IBN7 Hindi news channel in November 2014.

IBN7-Indian TV news channel telecast the national news in the Hindi language and is the venture of famous company Network 18.

“I resigned on moral grounds as the Channel operators were forcing me to prepare anti-Kashmir reports only. They are biased and were refusing to air my reports reflecting ground reality of Kashmir,” Naseer Ahmed told Kashmir based news agency CNS adding that the Channel is least bothered about civilian killings and has an agenda to twist facts about Kashmir and malign its image across globe.


“After the killing of Hizb Commander Burhan Wani in July, the Editorial Board of IBN7 asked me to prepare a fabricated report against Burhan. When I refused, they contacted their Jammu reporter who did it for them from Jammu,” Naseer said and claimed that the news channel always twist facts about Kashmir and mislead people of India through lies and distortion.

He said that he was shocked when the Channel refused to air a story about ATM Guard from old Srinagar city who was put to death by CRPF after they pumped pellets into his body when he was on way to his home. “Instead of airing this story, the Channel people asked me to find an injured Security Man anywhere in Kashmir Valley and prepare a story on him. Every time I send them a story based on facts, they distorted it and presented it from the prism of terrorism,” he said.

“I resigned from the job in protest against the role this ‘fanatic’ channel played in kindling and then promoting a campaign of blind nationalism. This Channel is doing disservice to its own people and misleads them about Kashmir. This Channel runs fabricated stories on Kashmir to appease a section of people. My conscience didn’t allow me to report false stories for them,” Naseer said and added that IBN7 has no transparent and stringent system and it follows blind nationalism when it comes to Kashmir.

Pertinently, majority of the Indian news channels are being accused of twisting facts when it comes to Kashmir. Some were even accused of fanning fire and running a hate campaign against Kashmir as a result the incumbent State government directed cable operators in Kashmir to stop airing them.

 

[war&peace]

It should be thoroughly and independently investigated since I'm not daft enough to believe that he created the facts out of the nothing. Just a few days ago Pervaiz Rasheed did a similar rant against army, then some MNA of the ruling party said the same thing as reported by the Cyril Almeida....As they say don't shoot the messenger.

The wedge between the civil and military leaderships is a well known and well document fact and I'm surprised people are calling this sedition while it has been known all along.

 

[ranjeet]

This one move will put more pressure on the establishment, all this talk about threat to national security is just a hogwash the real target behind this ban is the military.

 

[Verve]

Cyril has been on PA-bashing crusade for many years and he's clearly obsessed with PA. And he's still alive. Our military agencies do not kill journalists, this is what the likes of foreign run and backed MQM and others do. Even Bhutto had a hit squad.

There should be an indefinite ban on him. At least now he's officially a marked man. You reap what you sow.