By: Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: The Saleem Shahzad inquiry commission has suggested that steps are needed to make the Press and the intelligence agencies “law-abiding and accountable” at the same time.
FRIDAY marked the death anniversary of a Pakistani journalist and the failure to find the culprits behind the murder of another. Even as Wali Khan Babar’s case awaits trial one
KARACHI: That the judicial commission’s report on Saleem Shahzad’s murder is inconclusive should not be surprising, experts say. Its shortcoming lies in its very foundation – the formation of a
By: Adnan Rehmat Murder is an extreme form of censorship. That journalists in Pakistan are killed at the rate of seven a year, or staggeringly one every 50 days (since
By: Salman Siddiqui KARACHI: The judicial inquiry report into journalist Saleem Shahzad’s murder deals with everything, save pointing out who did it. The 146-page report gives page after page of
By: Zeeshan Adhi On December 21, 2011, the National Assembly of Pakistan passed a bill for the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission. A question that may arise at
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