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April 30th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Amnesty International has accused Pakistan’s powerful spy agency of kidnapping and killing journalists in the country, saying journalists are under constraint threat of violence from spy agency, the Taliban, and even political parties.
The international rights group said in a 60-page report on Wednesday that the Pakistani authorities have “almost completely failed” to end attacks on journalists.
At least 34 journalists have been killed because of their work since 2008, Amnesty said, adding that the culprits were brought to justice only in one case.
“Pakistan’s media community is effectively under siege,” David Griffiths, the Amnesty’s Deputy Asia-Pacific Director said.
“Journalists, in particular those covering national security issues or human rights, are targeted from all sides in a disturbing pattern of abuses carried out to silence their reporting,” he added.
The report came amid a standoff between the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and one of Pakistan’s major media groups, GEO Television Network, over an assassination attempt of a TV anchor Hamid Mir.
Mir is the second high-profile journalist to escape such attempts in the past two months, after TV host Reza Rumi.
Amnesty studied more than 70 cases and interviewed nearly 100 media workers. It said many of those interviewed were subjected to ISI harassments.
“The spy agency has been implicated in several abductions, torture and killings of journalists, but no serving ISI official has ever been held to account –allowing it to effectively operate beyond the reach of the law,” the rights group added.
Pakistan is ranked as one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world.
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