Quetta Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Equipment stolen, burned in raid on pro-Baluch paper

April 8, 2013 11:06 AM EDT

New York, April 8, 2013–Pakistani authorities should immediately investigate an attack on the Karachi bureau of the Urdu-language Daily Tawar and ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Third journalist reported killed in twin blasts in Quetta

January 11, 2013 3:25 PM EST

Police, emergency workers, and at least three journalists were killed in a bomb blast on January 10, 2012, that occurred 10 minutes after an initial explosion near a billiards hall in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province, according to news reports and CPJ sources.

At least two journalists killed in Quetta blasts

January 10, 2013 4:51 PM EST

New York, January 10, 2013–At least two journalists were killed and two others seriously injured when a bomb went off near a billiards hall in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province, as the journalists were reporting on an explosion that was set off there just minutes earlier, according to local journalists and news reports.…