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Mazhar Abbas is a Pakistani journalist. He is deputy director of ARY News Television, the second 24-hour after geo, bilingual news channel in Pakistan, and the secretary general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. He is also brother of DG ISPR Major General Ather Abbas.[1]
Abbas, who has worked as a journalist for nearly thirty years, has received multiple threats as a result of his work. He was on the hit list of the Mohajir Rabita Council, a political group in the southern Sindh province allied with the MQM. After protesting the closing of three independent TV channels for their reporting on demonstrations against President Musharraf, Abbas was charged by police in early 2007. In May 2007, he and two other journalists found white envelopes containing bullets placed on their cars.[1]
Working as an Agence France Presse correspondent, Abbas covered the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal.[1]
In 2007, he won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. The award is given for journalists who show courage in defending press freedom in the face of attacks, threats or imprisonment.[2] He also won the 2009 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism.[3]
References
- ^ a b c http://cpj.org/awards/2007/abbas.php
- ^ "CPJ To Honor Five Journalists". Committee to Protect Journalists. 24 September 2007. http://www.cpj.org/awards/2007/awards-release07.php. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ^ http://www.sajaforum.org/2009/08/awards-mazhar-abbas-wins-medal.html
CPJ International Press Freedom Award laureates 1991 Pius Njawe · Wang Juntao · Bill Foley · Chen Ziming · Cary Vaughan · Tatyana Mitkova · Byron Barrera 1992 Thepchai Yong · Gwen Lister · Sony Esteus · Mohammed Al-Sager · David Kaplan 1993 Ricardo Uceda · Veran Matić · Nosa Igiebor · Doan Viet Hoat · Omar Belhouchet 1994 Navidi Vakhsh · Daisy Li Yuet-Wah · Yndamiro Restano · Aziz Nesin · Iqbal Athas 1995 Veronica Guerin · Ahmad Taufik · Fred M’membe · José Rubén Zamora Marroquín · Siglo Veintiuno · Yevgeny Kiselyov 1996 Oscak Isik Yurtçu · Özgür Gündem · Daoud Kuttab · Jesús Blancornelas · Yusuf Jameel 1997 Yelena Masyuk · Freedom Neruda · Viktor Ivančić · Ying Chan · Shieh Chung-liang · Christina Anyanwu 1998 Ruth Simon · Pavel Sheremet · Goenawan Mohamad · Gustavo Gorriti · Grémah Boucar 1999 Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández · Baton Haxhiu · Jugnu Mohsin · Najam Sethi · María Cristina Caballero 2000 Željko Kopanja · Modeste Mutinga · Steven Gan · Mashallah Shamsolvaezin 2001 Jiang Weiping · Geoffrey Nyarota · Horacio Verbitsky · Mazen Dana 2002 Fesshaye Yohannes · Irina Petrushova · Tipu Sultan · Ignacio Gómez 2003 Manuel Vázquez Portal · Musa Muradov · Aboubakr Jamai · Abdul Samay Hamed 2004 Paul Klebnikov · Alexis Sinduhije · Aung Pwint · Thaung Tun · Svetlana Kalinkina 2005 Shi Tao · Lúcio Flávio Pinto · Beatrice Mtetwa · Galima Bukharbaeva 2006 Atwar Bahjat · Madi Ceesay · Jamal Amer · Jesús Abad Colorado 2007 Gao Qinrong · Adela Navarro Bello · Dmitry Muratov · Mazhar Abbas 2008 Bilal Hussein · Danish Karokhel · Farida Nekzad · Andrew Mwenda · Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez 2009 J. S. Tissainayagam · Eynulla Fatullayev · Naziha Réjiba · Mustafa Haji Abdinur 2010 Laureano Márquez · Dawit Kebede · Nadira Isayeva · Mohammad Davari Categories:- Pakistani journalists
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