ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has been declared among the top ten most dangerouscountries of the World for Journalists.
Pakistan is now the ninth-worst country in the world for journalists asopposed to the seventh-worst in 2017. It has been leapfrogged byAfghanistan, which went through a blood-soaked election, and Colombia, thehome to narco-wars.
These are the countries where journalists get killed and the killers gofree, according to CPJ’s 2018 #ImpunityIndexlink:
SomaliaSyriaIraqSouth SudanThe PhilippinesAfghanistanMexicoColombiaPakistanBrazilRussiaBangladesh#EndImpunitylinklinklink link
— Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) October 29, 2018link
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Therefore, it is not much of an improvement and Pakistan remains a countrywhere journalists risk injury, death, kidnapping or detention in theirefforts to hold those in power or authority to account.
According to Freedom Network’s reportlink,at least 26 journalists have been killed for their work during the lastfive years. However, only 16 of these cases went to court for trial ofwhich prosecution was concluded in six cases and conviction handed in justone case.
