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Zaman Mehsud
Muhammed Zaman Mehsud (Unknown – 3 November 2015), a Pakistani journalist for Urdu language publications ''Ummat (newspaper), Daily Ummat'' and ''Daily Nai Baat'', as well as the Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA, based in Pakistan, was murdered. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for his killing. Personal Zaman Mehsud is believed to be hailed from South Waziristan, a region that is in the tribal areas of Pakistan. He is survived by his wife and five children—three sons and two daughters—as well as his brother, Muhammad Aslam Khan. He was buried on Wednesday, 14 November 2015, although there is some uncertainty as to where he was buried. The Pakistan Press Foundation reported at the time that the funeral would be held at Narsez IDP camp in the Tank district of Pakistan on Wednesday. Another source said "his body was taken back to the Gomal area where he would be buried." Career Mehsud was a journalist who worked for the ''Daily Umm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and the group often works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners. Human Rights Watch, in 1997, shared the Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and it played a leading role in the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions. The organization's annual expenses totaled $50.6 million in 2011, $69.2 million in 2014, and $75.5 million in 2017. History Human Rights Watch was co-founded by Robert L. Bernstein Jeri Laber and Aryeh Neier as a private American NGO in 1978, under the name Helsinki Watch, to monitor the then-Soviet Union's compliance with the Helsinki Accords. Helsinki Watch adopted a practice of public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pashtun Journalists
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically referred to as Afghans () or xbc, αβγανο () until the 1970s, when the term's meaning officially evolved into that of a demonym for all residents of Afghanistan, including those outside of the Pashtun ethnicity. The group's native language is Pashto, an Iranian language in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Additionally, Dari Persian serves as the second language of Pashtuns in Afghanistan while those in the Indian subcontinent speak Urdu and Hindi (see Hindustani language) as their second language. Pashtuns are the 26th-largest ethnic group in the world, and the largest segmentary lineage society; there are an estimated 350–400 Pashtun tribes and clans with a variety of origin theories. The total popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
