Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a journalist of a US based news agency is receiving death threats from Taliban Pakistan for writing stories on the working of some prominent religious seminaries (Madressas) who were imparting training students for suicide bombers or romanticizing the suicide attacks. The chief of the news agency-AP has asked the correspondent to leave the job as Taliban Pakistan has declared AP as an infidel organization. The bosses at USA have conveyed message to him that it would not be possible to relocate him to the US because of the policy shift in the aftermath of 9/11. The journalist and his family have restricted their movements and are taking shelter in different places. Read More...

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