UN calls for probe into abductions and killings of journalists

19 August 2011  

The United Nations human rights office today 

urged the Pakistani Government to investigate numerous reports of abductions, disappearances and extrajudicial killings, particularly of journalists.
Since 2007, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has received numerous reports of such human rights violations, spokesperson Rupert Colville told reporters in Geneva.                                                   http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39333&Cr=Pakistan&Cr1