04 July 2007
Maulana Masud Mehmood
Other non-natural
Journalists on 4 July held a demonstration in front of the Press Information Department (PID) to protest the government’s inability to provide protection to mediapersons during the coverage of the Lal Masjid stand-off in which two journalists have been killed and another critically injured.
They offered their full support to the bereaved families and demanded of the government to conduct an inquiry into the incident and arrest the culprits and bring them to book. They said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had done nothing to provide any group insurance cover to journalists who are turning out to be the most vulnerable segment during conflict situations. They said it was not known as to who was responsible for the death of Maulana Masud Mehmood, a reporter of Daily Islam, who was killed on Wednesday and Javed Khan, a photo journalist of Daily Markaz killed on Tuesday.
