Posts Tagged ‘Journalist’
7 Months, 10 Days in Taliban’s Captivity: Story of David Rohde
Here is a five-part series "Held by the Taliban" offering a first-person account by David Rohde of his seven months as a captive of the Taliban in Pakistan. Mr. Rohde, a New York Times reporter, was kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues on Nov. 10, 2008, as they traveled to an interview with a Taliban commander (more...)
Hamid Mir: Taliban are killing ‘non-conforming’ jorunalists by declaring them as spies…
Musa’s slaying scares reporters away from Swat Saturday, February 21, 2009 (The News) By Hamid Mir MINGORA: “The pen is mightier than the sword” is a phrase we learnt at school. Unfortunately, the dangerous situation in Swat has changed this idiom, which should now read something like this: “The gun is mightier than the pen.” The [...]
Taliban killed Musa Khankhel. Will Sufi Muhammad provide Shar’i justice to Musa Khankhel’s family?
Omens against peace in Swat... As if in response to the Tehreek-e Nifaz-e Shariat-e Muhammadi (TNSM) leader Sufi Muhammad’s “peace march” from Mingora to Matta in Swat, a gang of Taliban kidnapped journalist Musa Khankhel on Wednesday and then rigged him with bullets and beheaded his dead corpse. The Sufi did not comment, but the act was [...]
Journalist Imtiaz Alam attacked in Lahore: The price of writing/speaking against Taliban and their sympathizers….
SAFMA secretary general Imtiaz Alam attacked * Assault followed by threatening phone call * Veteran journalist says will not stop speaking out against terrorBy Adnan LodhiLAHORE: Unidentified men attacked senior journalist Imtiaz Alam late on Wednesday.Imtiaz Alam, who (more...)
