Murders of media persons: CM visits journalists’ hunger strike camp

At least 12 journalists observe a token hunger strike

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said his government had convened a high level meeting on Friday in the wake of increasing incidents of targeted killings in Balochistan. He was talking to the media during his visit to the hunger strike camp of Balochistan Union of Journalists pitched outside Balochistan Assembly on Thursday. At least 12 journalists observed a token-hunger strike against what they described as the inability of law enforcing agencies to trace culprits involved in targeted killing of media persons.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 12^th, 2014.