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Three vicious bomb blasts in Pakistan in the last two days—one in Lower Dir that wounded three reporters on Thursday, and Friday’s double attack in Karachi that we’re still investigating—highlight just how dangerous it has become for journalists, particularly TV camera crews and photographers, but certainly any journalist assigned to cover a public event or military operations in the country.
The number of attacks aimed at killing large
numbers of people in
In 2009, we ran a five-part series about the
dangers facing reporters covering the story in the border areas with
Afghanistan, and the tactics they are using to cope with the threats they face
on a daily basis. The series was called “The
Frontier War.” The final entry dealt specifically with steps that can be
taken to lessen
the threat to journalists.
On January 27, a respected Pakistani journalist,
Zaffar
Abbas, wrote to CPJ saying that TV managers in Pakistan had been able to
come together to draw up voluntary guidelines about covering the increasing
violence, and that the same group had begun to address the safety of the
journalists covering those stories.
Abbas, the Islamabad editor of Dawn
newspaper who is also on the editorial
board of Dawn TV, said that the TV
coverage guidelines were starting to take hold, but there was less movement
toward implementing safety training or getting the proper protective gear for
people in the field.
It is time for media companies to stop dragging
their feet and give their frontline reporters the tools and training they need
to do their jobs. Virtually all of
And, of course, these responsibilities also fall
on the foreign news organizations covering this global story that don’t already
provide the gear and training for their Pakistani staff.
I posted an update to
this entry on February 8 here.
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Hi!
just to share with you , some concerns of the electronic media in Pakistan. The reporters and camera persons in Pakistan have been facing threats constantly ever since the beginning of the war on terror. But the new phenomenon that has developed is even more alarming, many journalists have to face problems and sometimes even beatings by the law enforncment agancies . The law enforcement agencies during their operations try to keep the press compeletely suppressed. a few days ago , a team of a news channel was beaten up by a hospital managent on the pretext there was threat to security. The law is totally silent on this issue.
Ahmad Raza Khan
President
Electronic Media Reporters Welfare Association
Lahore Pakistan
There is a strong need of protection as well as correction for media in Pakistan.
Mr.Ahmad Raza Khan is right.