{"id":120209,"date":"2021-11-11T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120209"},"modified":"2021-11-11T18:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:41:01","slug":"press-emblem-campaign-pec-demands-fair-probe-into-murder-of-another-pakistani-digital-media-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/11\/press-emblem-campaign-pec-demands-fair-probe-into-murder-of-another-pakistani-digital-media-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) demands fair probe into murder of another Pakistani digital media user"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nava Thakuria<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media\nsafety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the relentless murder of\nscribes, citizen journalists and digital media users in Pakistan for exposing\nanomalies in the government, administration, and society through various media\noutlets and demands fair probes into all those assassinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local media outlets reported that one more active\nPakistani social media user named Muhammad Zada was killed by two gunmen on 8\nNovember<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 at his residence in Sakhakot area of Malakand\nlocality under Pakistan\u2019s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Zada (35) ran\na digital platform titled Citizen Journalist PK, where he used to post socially\nrelevant issues relating to his home district of  Malakand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outspoken social activist always took his stand\nagainst the illegal drug mafia and expressed his concern about the new\ngeneration, who are seemingly under the grip of such consumption. Zada remained\ncritical against the corrupt politicians, government officials and some local\nleaders, who were making money from the illegal business with impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Zada became popular in his locality, he earned enmity\nfrom some influential personalities including a few police officers. He claimed\nthat a Malakand district police officer was harassing and threatening him for\nhis activities. Zada was asked to stop putting posts in the social media and\notherwise face the consequence. But he was not scared while putting inputs\nagainst local criminal groups, who often enjoy support from the administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is shocking that Pakistan loses one more socially\nresponsible media activist after the murder of Nazim Samwal Jokhio, a\nvideographer in western Sindh province, on 4 November. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief\nminister Mahmood Khan must take the brutal murder of Muhammad Zada seriously\nand assure that the culprits will not enjoy the impunity,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

said Blaise Lempen, secretary-general of PEC (https:\/\/pressemblem.ch\/pec-news.shtml<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nazim Jokhio, a local journalist, was allegedly tortured\nto death at the farmhouse of accused PPP MPA for trying to prevent his foreign\nguests from illegal hunting of endangered houbara bustard. An autopsy found\nsevere torture marks and bruises all over the body of the deceased. MPA Sindh\nAssembly Jam Owais has been remanded to police custody. Nazim Jokhio was\ntortured to death for recording the MPA\u2019s hunting expedition of the highly rare\nbird species along with Arab hunters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The troubled south Asian nation earlier lost five\nprofessional journalists namely Ajay Laalwani (18 March, Sindh), Waseem Alam\n(10 April, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Abdul Wahid Raisani (24 April, Balochistan),\nKashif Hussain (10 August, Punjab) and Shahid Zehri (10 October, Balochistan)\nto assailants since 1 January 2021, revealed PEC\u2019s south Asia representative\nNava Thakuria adding that India and Bangladesh have witnessed the murder of\nfive and two scribes respectively this year till date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nava Thakuria Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the relentless murder of scribes, citizen journalists and digital media users in Pakistan for exposing anomalies in the government, administration, and society through various media outlets and demands fair probes into all those assassinations. Local media outlets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}