2nd Samaa TV Journalist Killed in Suicide Attack- JIP Condoles death

Journalists For International Peace shocked to learn that Samaa TV Journalist Azmat Ali Bangash became the second Samaa TV journalist to be killed in a suicide bomber in past 48 hours. JIP would like to express condolences to the victim’s family and our support for Samaa TV for its courageous work in the worst given circu,stances. Reportedly, Bangash was covering an event and preparing a report in a camp for displaced Shiite villagers near the Afghan border, 65 km from Peshawar, when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the place where families had gathered to be registered, killing 41 people including Bangash and injuring around 60 others.
    The bombings, which were claimed by a banned militant Sunni jihadist group, Al Laskhar-e-Jahngvi, were targeted at Shiites who have been forced to flee the fierce fighting in the Orakzai region resulting from an army offensive against the Taliban.

Samaa TV cameraman Malik Arif  was killed and five journalists were wounded by a suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital yesterday that left a total of eight dead. The journalists had gone to the hospital to cover a Shiite demonstration in support of a Shiite businessman who had been the target of a murder attempt.. JIP believes that possibility of some local or international conspirators are involved in the case, to create a sectarian clashes.
JIP prays for the departed soul of Azmat Ali Bangash.

Iftikhar Chaudri
President
Journalists For International Peace
Islamabad, Pakistan