Pakistan media experienced surge in violence, suppression in 2024

FILE - Police officers fire tear gas shells to disperse protesters in Islamabad on Nov. 26, 2024. Coverage of the protest led to one journalist being detained briefly and another called in for questioning amid a surge of media suppression and violence in Pakistan this year.

Malik Zafar Iqbal Naich was delivering copies of the newspaper he works for last week when gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed the journalist.