Pakistan - TV reporter gunned down in Balochistan, sixth journalist slain this year

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the rate at which journalists are being killed in Pakistan and offers its condolences to the family and colleagues of the latest victim, Vsh TV reporter Abdul Qadir Hajizai, who was gunned down in the southwestern province of Balochistan on 28 May. He was the sixth journalist to be murdered this year in Pakistan. “Journalists have been killed in connection with their work at a rate of more than one a month since the start of 2012,” Reporters Without (...)

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