Journalist Malala Maiwand is the latest victim of targeted killings in Afghanistan. Apart from working as a journalist, Malala actively campaigned for women rights in her conflict-ridden country. The slain journalist was gunned down with her driver, Mohammad Tahir, on her morning commute to work in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province in eastern […]
Pakistani women journalists have called upon the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government to hold accountable the perpetrators of vicious hate attacks directed at them through social media. In a statement issued by a 16-strong group of journalists, they said: “The target of these attacks are women with differing viewpoints and those whose reports have been critical […]