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Quake claimed lives of 11 Pakistani journalists Islamabad: Among the nearly one lakh people who died in the devastating October 8 earthquake were 11 Pakistani journalists and their at least 69 family members, a preliminary report based on the first phase of assessment mission of the Pakistan Press Foundation said on Saturday. Besides, as many as 242 journalists and other media personnel suffered personal or property losses, and 17 journalists and their 15 family members were injured, while 171 houses of media persons were destroyed and 54 others sustained damages in the disaster, said the report released by PPF Secretary-General Owais Aslam Ali. Quoting the report, The News said that out of the 20 press clubs and offices of unions of journalists in the quake-hit areas, 12 were either destroyed or damaged. Majority of losses to media personnel and organisations took place in Muzaffarabad, where 10 media personnel were killed and 11 injured. Fifty family members of media personnel were killed and another 10 injured. One hundred and nine houses of media personnel were destroyed and another 12 suffered damage. The PPF assessment mission visited the quake-hit areas of five districts of NWFP and three districts of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) one week after the quake from October 15-23. The areas visited included Abbottabad, Mansehra, Balakot, Batgram, Shinkiari, Garhi Habibullah, Bufa, Jabori, Jabar, Dhodhiyal in NWFP and Muzaffarabad, Garhi Dopata, Majhoi, Siran, Kohala Bakot, Dheerkot, Arja, Bagh and Rawlakot. According to the report, lack of safe space was a major problem for rehabilitation of the media organisations and media persons in PoK. The 29-page report contains the names of journalists, their family members killed and injured, details of destroyed and damaged houses of journalists along with their names and press clubs. |
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