this happens and we are largely in the south, where i think on the whole we are much better protected, i think, so far as the hindu and its staff and its journalists are concerned. but on the danger to journalists, i was looking up the data published by the cpj, the committee to protectjournalists. and to be precise, 52 journalists have been murdered since 1992, according to the data they have and they were murdered. ..in relation to their work. that s how they count these numbers. and also, india is. the figures in what is called the cpj s global impunity index, wherejournalists are murdered in connection with their work and their cases are not resolved. and india has been over the last.more than a decade, i would say, unfortunately, a founding and permanent member
to protectjournalists? because the case i referred to in the last 2a hours is by no means isolated. i lljust point you to one more in the recent past. last month, absar alam, a prominentjournalist who was shot in broad daylight. he was lucky to survive the incident. this happens month after month. you ve been in office for some time. what are you doing about it? well, frankly, individual incidents do happen, and such incidents do happen everywhere in the world. and pakistan is no exception. no, no. minister. minister, incidents like this don t happen in many countries. the organisation reporters without borders has clear evidence that the situation forjournalists in pakistan is much, much more dangerous than most other countries around the world. and you re clearly finding