Obituary: Saif-ur-Rehman, The Intrepid News-breaker
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 22, 2013 · 1 Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar SAIF BALOCH was pretty sure that he would one day make it as a big journalist. He was fully cognizant of his abilities at times when the rest of us, his fellow journalist colleagues in Quetta, thought he was too dumb to commit some much time and energy to journalism. We … Read more
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Boots, guns, tanks now come to Daily Balochistan Express/ Azadi
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 21, 2009 · 5 Comments
<img By Malik Siraj Akbar “I told the forces deployed outside my office that I was a journalist not a “terrorist”,” recalls Rashid Baloch [name changed], a reporter affiliated with Quetta-based daily Balochistan Express. Rashid, 25, was on his way for the morning shift at the newspaper office located a few hundred meters away from … Read more
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State of the Press freedom in Balochistan in 2008
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on January 1, 2009 · 2 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Four months after his release from a nine-month long official detention, twenty-one-year old journalist Javid Lehri travels on every fortnight from his native Khuzdar district to Karachi for his medical treatment. Lehri had been whisked away by masked officials of a shadowy force from room No. 2 of Bugti block at … Read more
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