The press under siege in Pakistan especially Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Rooh-ul-Amin Around the world, there are outnumbering journalists’ organizations, always vociferously raising slogans for the freedom of press, rights of journalists including safety to their lives. Journalism, as we see is not yet free and whatever press freedom today we have is the outgrowth of the blood of the journalists fallen. In current day scenario especially in Pakistan keeping the candle of free journalism alive is tantamount to inviting death. And this is not an exaggeration rather those who feel doubts may see the incidents of journalists killings and for that we will have to look back into history as there have been and 12 cases in 2008 and 8 cases of journalists murders in Pakistan in the year 2010 while as many as five journalists have been killed so far in 2011, which is a clear indication that this ill-fated community has been facing myriad challenges and hurdles. If we compare the war-torn Afghanistan with Pakistan, we can judge that journalists in Afghanistan are a b...