PESHAWAR: A reporter working for DawnNews television channel
has complained to police that he has been getting telephone calls
threatening him with dire consequences for the last few days.
Hassan
Farhan Tariq, the channel’s crime reporter, said some people had been
calling him from unknown numbers, telling him that some of “your reports
are inimical to national interest”. The callers also insisted on naming
the source of a story.
The Peshawar bureau chief of
DawnNews confirmed that he had overheard a caller telling Mr Tariq that
his report regarding arrest of three suspects over the terrorist attack
on Peshawar’s Agriculture Training Institute was against national
interest.
The West Cantonment police station, after registering the reporter’s complaint, offered him some safety tips.
Police
advised Mr Tariq to restrict his movements, install CCTV cameras and
barbed wire near his home and office, hire a security guard and get
lighting arrangements in his neighbourhood improved.
