Pakistan - Another journalist's murder underlines safety crisis in Balochistan
Malaysia Sun
Thursday 24th February, 2011
(Source: IFEX)
Abdost Rind, Journalist (IFJ/IFEX) - February 21, 2011 - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked to hear of the killing of Abdost Rind, a 27-year-old journalist in the Turbat area of Balochistan province in Pakistan's south-west.According to information received from IFJ affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Rind - a reporter with "Daily Eagle", an Urdu-language newspaper - was shot four times by unidentified assailants on motorcycles as he returned home from work on the evening of February 18.
He died immediately.He is the second media worker to be killed in Balochistan this year, after the death of Ilyas Nazar, who was found dead in Pidarak on January 5.The IFJ's recent report on journalists and media workers killed in 2010 identifies Pakistan... ...
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He died immediately.He is the second media worker to be killed in Balochistan this year, after the death of Ilyas Nazar, who was found dead in Pidarak on January 5.The IFJ's recent report on journalists and media workers killed in 2010 identifies Pakistan... ...
Read the full story at IFEX
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