| | ISLAMABAD: A driver of Aaj TV Muhammad Sarwar was killed on Friday in a suicide attack on a Shi’ite rally marking the Al-Quds Day in Quetta while several other media persons were injured, initial reports said. Among the injured were cameramen Muhammad Shahid (Express TV), Muhammad Imran (DawnNews), Fateh Shakir (Geo TV), Muhammad Ijaz (Samaa TV) and reporters Noor Elahi Bugti (Samaa TV) and Mustafa Tareen (Geo TV). Also injured were ARY TV’s Bureau Chief Mustafa Tareen and cameraman Amin Magsi. All of them were covering the rally for their respective organizations, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) said.
The PFUJ condemned the suicide attack that was followed by indiscriminate firing on the rally that was organized by Imamia Students Organization. More than 50 people were killed and over 102 injured.
Expressing concern over this state of affairs prevailing in Balochistan, the PFUJ said the attack had proven again that media men are working in hostile conditions without any security or protection.
The PFUJ said that bomb blasts and firing have become a routine in various parts of the country, especially in Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab and in tribal areas where a number of journalists have been seriously injured while eight have been killed. Fourteen reporters and cameramen have suffered injuries while performing their professional assignments since 9/11.
On April 16 this year Samaa TV cameraman Malik Arif lost his life in a suicide bomb attack on a Quetta hospital while five other journalists, Noor Elahi Bugti (Samaa TV), Salman Ashraf (Geo TV), Fareed Ahmed (Dunya TV), Khalil Ahmed (Express TV) and Malik Sohail ( Aaj TV) were injured. |
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