Press Coverage

Archive of official statements, press releases, and media advisories issued by the task force.

Media: Targeting the journalists

The month before was worse — one of the deadliest for Pakistani journalists — with four fatalities, evenly spread over Pakistan’s four provinces….

Taskforce formed to monitor investigation

As television anchor Hamid Mir put it, “Pakistan’s biggest tragedy is the journalist who is not ready to leave their profession despite all the threats and ….

Pakistani journalists report in fear

A recent spike in killings has made justice seem even more elusive. This has been an especially dangerous year for the press in Pakistan, with at least six journalists…..

A hunt at last for the killers

In Pakistan, where killers of journalists have been getting away with murder for decades, an international coalition of rights watchdogs, reporters…..

‘If you scream no one will hear you’:

CPJ’s impunity index lists countries where perpetrators who kill journalists for their work, an act which CPJ defines as “murder,” evade justice…..