Thirteen journalists killed in the past 13 months. The world’s deadliest country for media personnel in 2010, with 11 killed, Pakistan continues to be one of the most dangerous in 2011. As well as being very badly paid, its journalists are exposed to every kind of danger.
With its tribal northwest, its border with Afghanistan, its tension with India and its chaotic political history, Pakistan is one of the world’s most complex nations and its journalists confront a daunting array of problems that include terrorist threats, police violence, the unbridled power of local potentates and dangerous conflicts in the Tribal Areas...
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http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/17/13-months-murders.html
With its tribal northwest, its border with Afghanistan, its tension with India and its chaotic political history, Pakistan is one of the world’s most complex nations and its journalists confront a daunting array of problems that include terrorist threats, police violence, the unbridled power of local potentates and dangerous conflicts in the Tribal Areas...
For complete story please visit the link below
http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/17/13-months-murders.html
The report is good but the advertisements and other additional items are making it difficult to read. May be its a fault in sharing!
All the journalists who have been interviewed in the report have focused on the issue that security and training should be provided to all the journalists in Pakistan.
@ miss Hanif, i hope you'll now have no difficulty in reading..please revisit the link...
this report is very good very informative
i disagree with it because how can an organization send their reporter forcibly????
@everyone
a) What kind of training and security shall be provided to journalsists?
b) Is it even "practical" to provide training and security to "every" journalist?
c)What are journalists options in the absence of security and training?
@ Miss Sabeen
a)Journalists in other parts of the world are offered "hostile-environment training" which train them to cover dangerous assignments without harming their own life.And body-armor should be given to them as well.
b)I dont think that an organisation would be able to provide security to every journalist but I think its necessary because journalism is a dangerous business. A journalist also has a family to support and his traning and security matters a lot.
c)Most of the journalists cover the event even with or without the security or traning provided to them. They can apply for a life or health insurance i guess.
@ Miss Sabeen
a) i think as a journalist works in danger zone..the training of using weapons should be given to them so that they could guard themselves in the cases of being kidnapped n murder attack.
b) yeah there should be training centres who give training n guidance to the upcoming ones for their safety...then majority of journalist would be able to get secured.
c)i guess if a journalist is devoid of any kind of security and training....then he should choose the cases of minor danger n do not indulge himself into intensive dangerous cases....
@Maliha: How the training would be useful what sort of training i mean if someone is returning back to home after duty and attacked by the people how the person are going to secure themselves...