Monthly Media Report

www.intermedia.org.pk/mrc                                                                                                        March, 2008	

Contents

1-	Curb Against Media Chart------------------------- 02

2-	Statistics of Abuses against Media in Pakistan March 2008--------------------------------------------  03

3-	Media Development --------------------------------- 04

4-	Statistics of Abuses against Media in Pakistan Since Jan 2008----------------------------------------- 04

5-	Chronology of Abuses against Media ------------ 05

6-	Broadcast Media in Pakistan ---------------------- 07

7-	Chronicles of Shame 2000-2008 ------------------- 08 	

Curb Against Media Chart

Killing (01 Incident )

Name	Newspaper / designation	City	Details	Reported on	
Siraj Uddin	The Nation 	Mingora	killed in a suicidal blast at the funeral of a slain police officer in Mingora,	08th March	

Abducted / Assert (04 Incidents )

Name	Newspaper / designation	City	Details	Reported on	
Muhammad Asif Baloch	Editor Daily Azadi 	Quetta	Abducted 	2nd March	
Khalil Khosa	Journalist Daily Azadi	Quetta	Didn’t return from press conference in Nasirabad 4 days ago	4th of March	
Javaid lehri 	Journalist Daily Azadi	Quetta	Wadh Tehsil/ Detained by ATF/ Missing since 30 Nov. 07	4th of March	
Zafar Tagar	Vice President 	Naushero Feroze / Local Press Club	even after a lapse of nine days Kidnapers demanded Rs.0.8million for the release of Victim with in 5days	20th March	

Assault and Injured (03 Incidents )

Name	Newspaper / designation	City	Details	Reported on	
Hazrat Bilal	Journalist	Local Press Club Mingora	In a city in the troubled Swat valley of the North-West Frontier Province he sustained multiple injuries in a suicide blast 	08th March	
SharifUddin/Manzar Lashkari	Journalist/ Secretary 	Gilgit Press 
Club	during the coverage of a function in local degree college, police brutally tortured	09th March	
Cameramen and Journalists 	Journalists 	Karachi	Detained and snatched them as they were retuning after covering a MQM press briefing in Gulstan-i-Johar locality of Karachi	12th March	

Intimidation (08 Incidents )

City / Area	Event / Activity	Intimidation	
Lahore	journalists were roughed up and manhandled	at entry point of venue by security men and some PML-N activists	
Lahore	In Lahore, during the press conference of President Supreme Court Bar Association Ch. Atizaz Ahsan	his neighbor attacked the Express News van, and cut off the cable airing the press conference live with stroke of hammer	
Murree 	Punjab Auqaf Department	sealed the office of Murree Press Club	
Islamabad	building of Daily Dawn and TV channel	received an anonymous calls of any explosive material	
Naushahro Feroze	kidnapped journalist Zafar Tagar	Police had not lodged a case and not arrested involve kidnappers	
Karachi	Cameramen and Journalists after covering a MQM press briefing in Gulstan-i-Johar locality of Karachi	Detained and snatched them as they were retuning	
Karachi	On arrival of speaker national assembly	brutal disturbance was observed in which cameras of journalists were damaged	
Chaar Sadda	returning to Sadda from Ali Zai had been intercepted	armed tribesmen held hostage for nearly seven hours	

Restriction (03 Incidents)

City / Area	Event / Activity	Intimidation	
Rawalpindi	Photojournalists boycotted coverage of women's week	FJWU Public Relation Officer (PRO) Dr Shamim Zaidi's refusal to allow them to take shots of the students	
Islamabad	Election of new speaker NA	private television channel representatives complained that police had cut off their network cables and beat media persons outside the parliament house	
Islamabad	Peace TV	Pemra banned “Peace TV” a 24 hour Islamic Channel 	

Monthly Statistic of abuse against media in Pakistan 2008 March