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Mohammad Ismail, Islamabad bureau chief of Pakistan Press International,
was found murdered near his home on 1 November. Local police believe his death was caused by blows to the head inflicted by an iron bar. No clear motive is known for the murder. The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for an investigation into Ismail’s death.
Maqbool Hussain Siyal, a senior journalist and a district correspondent for the Online News Network, was shot dead on 14 September in the city of Dera Ismail Khan, in north-western Pakistan, an area known for sectarian violence. According to reports, Siyal was on his way to meet Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians leader Nawab Azek, when he was shot in the head by two unidentified gunmen on bicycle. As he was being rushed to nearby hospital, the journalist suffered a serious haemorrhage and died.
The body of Hayatullah Khan, a reporter and photographer who went missing on December 5, 2005, was found on June 16 in the town of Mir Ali, in the North Waziristan region near the Afghan border. According to reports, Khan, had probably been murdered on June 15. He had been shot in the head and was handcuffed when villagers found the body. Hayatullah Khan, who was a reporter for the daily “Ausuf” newspaper and also worked as a photographer for several international news agencies, was captured by five gunmen in December. The day before his abduction, Khan had taken pictures giving evidence that a senior figure from Al-Qaeda had been killed by a US missile and not by a bomb blast, as claimed by the government. Because of his reporting, Khan received numerous threats from local tribesmen, Taliban members and Pakistani security forces.
Munir Ahmed Sangi, a cameraman for the Sindhi-language Kawish Television Network (KTN) was shot on 29 May while covering a gunfight between members of the Unar and Abro tribes in the town of Larkana, in southeast Pakistan’s Sindh district. According to reports, some of the journalist’s colleagues believe he may have been deliberately targeted for the station’s reporting on a jirga, or tribal council, held by leaders of the Unar tribe. An uncle and colleague of Sangi had recently been attacked in connection with KTN’s reports that two children had been punished by the tribal court, PFUJ said
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