Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) strongly condemns the death threats to Nawa-i-Waqt reporter Bakhtzada Khan in Haripur city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is imperative that authorities ensure the safety of the journalist by taking such threats seriously and ensuring action against the suspect. On October 9, Khan, who is also the general secretary of
HARIPUR: The police here on Wednesday registered a criminal case against a man for allegedly hurling life threats at a local journalist. City police quoted Bakhtzada Khan, general secretary of Haripur Union of Journalists (HUJ), as saying that he published a news item in one of Urdu language newspapers pointing out the unchecked sale of
May 30, 2021
HARIPUR: The district police officer, Haripur, has sent three constables accused of torturing a journalist to the police lines and initiated a departmental inquiry against them, police said here on Saturday.
According to Zaheer Abbas, a Rawalpindi-based cameraman of a private TV channel, he was on way back home after shooting a news package on Khanpur reservoir for his channel when he saw policemen beating some people on the roadside which he also captured on his camera.
However, the policemen allegedly snatched the camera from the journalist and thrashed him publicly before putting him in the police van.
They took the journalist to the police station and allegedly tortured him for making their footage.