Posts Tagged ‘ safdar dawar ’

Journalists on the Run in Pakistan

By TQ
Dec 2015
Journalists on the Run in Pakistan

Journalists condemn the murder of their slain colleagues and protest government inaction. 48 journalists have been killed in Pakistan in the last decade.
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Issue III: Solidarity Politics

Feb 2013

From Bara to Quetta to Palestine, we consider solidarity politics this month.
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Safdar Dawar | Voices

Feb 2013

Tanqeed sat down with Safdar Dawar, the general secretary of the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ). Based out of Peshawar, the TUJ represents 300 journalists operating out of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and boasts 13 press clubs in an area generally off-limits to the rest of the world–including the average Pakistani. Transcript: English Audio...
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Reporter’s Notebook: Pashtuns Protest Against Army | Ashraf Kakkar & Madiha R Tahir

By M.T.
Jan 2013

Photographer: Ashraf Kakkar Protests against the killing of 21 Pashtuns from Pakistan’s tribal areas by Pakistan’s security forces this week continue to grow. The latest wave of solidarity protests occurred in Islamabad as well as Peshawar. Frontier Corps (FC) commander Colonel Jawad Zia who heads the para-military force in Bara, the locality where 21...
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Protests Against Army Operations in FATA | Q&A

By M.A.
Jan 2013

Inspired by the Hazaras of Quetta, Pashtuns convened in front of the Governor’s House in Peshawar with the bodies of 18 people killed in an army operation carried out in Bara, a sub-division of Khyber Agency. The bodies have since been confiscated by the army and police, but the protestors continue their sit-in, this...
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