Section 02 · Stories
Summaries of publicly documented accounts. Behind each headline is a reporter who kept working — or was forced to stop.
Television anchor
After surviving a 2014 assassination attempt in Karachi, Mir has spoken publicly about living with bullets still lodged in his body. In 2021 he was taken off air after a speech protesting an attack on a colleague, and returned only the following year.
Independent journalist
Abducted in Islamabad in 2020 and released within hours after footage spread online. He has since described being repeatedly targeted through court cases and, in 2024, was arrested and charged after reporting on protest casualties.
Digital journalist
Assaulted in his Islamabad apartment in 2021 by men he said identified themselves as intelligence officers. In 2024 he was detained by the FIA over social-media posts and continues to report largely through YouTube.
District correspondents
Away from big cities, many stringers work unpaid or for very little, with no insurance or legal support. Their accounts describe threats from local power brokers, militant groups and police alike — and murders that rarely make national headlines.