Abstract
This study explores threats to journalists in Sindh, searching the journalist’s community,
allocating its existence through a premeditated survey with directional questionnaire.
Consulting 150 journalists to find out the essence, magnitude and targeting aspects of the
threats they are facing in wake of their line of duty. Journalists and threats are both
enter-linked since the birth of journalism, a journalist is a Watch-Dog or Gate-Keeper,
who guards the boundaries of transparency, freedom of expression, sphere of laws and
protects and promotes the social values and norms and facilitates political
communication to educate and update the citizens. Doing all this in a part of the state
where the situation of law and order is deteriorated, the population is heterogeneous in
its nature, is a big challenge. Attacks on journalists have been searched from the history
of media landscape for last 17 years in Sindh to weigh up the threats to Watch-Dogs. The
study generalizes, whether working journalists are serving under pressure in an
environment governed by threats or they feel safe and free to perform their journalistic
duties. It also calculates the responses of the affected journalists in the outward
appearance of complaints they file in connection with the threats faced for their
professional work.
Fazal Hussain, Auj-e-Kamal. (2018) THREATS TO JOURNALISTS IN SINDH: EVENTS AND PERCEPTIONS (2000-2017), Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 57, Issue 2.
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