Islamabad: Figures released by the International Federation of Journalists have shown that five Pakistani journalists are among the 67 media personnel killed so far during 2022 in the line of duty.
IFJ renewed its call for concrete actions to protect the safety and freedoms of journalists as it recorded a spike in the number of journalists killed or imprisoned during 2022, reports Dawn News.
The Pakistani journalists, who lost lives in 2022 and recorded in the IFJ list, were: Hasnain Shah, Ziaur Rehman Farooqi, Iftikhar Ahmed, Muhammad Younis and Sadaf Naeem, the newspaper reported.
The federation emphasised that the vote on the IFJ Convention on the Safety and Independence of Journalists by the UN General Assembly has become urgent.
It is now time for the General Assembly to pass the IFJ Convention on the Safety and Independence of Journalists, IFJ General-Secretary Anthony Bellanger told Dawn News.
