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| Title | Journalists Killed in 2009 - Motive Unconfirmed: Raja Assad Hameed |
| Publisher | Committee to Protect Journalists |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Publication Date | January 2010 |
| Cite as | Committee to Protect Journalists, Journalists Killed in 2009 - Motive Unconfirmed: Raja Assad Hameed, January 2010, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4e649683c.html [accessed 29 May 2012] |
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Journalists Killed in 2009 - Motive Unconfirmed: Raja Assad Hameed
The Nation, Waqt TV
March 26, 2009, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Unidentified gunmen killed Raja Assad Hameed, a reporter with the English-language daily The Nation and its Urdu-language television channel, Waqt, while he was parking his car at his house.
Media accounts of the attack varied. Beena Sarwar, a media and human rights activist, looked closely into the murder and described what she found to CPJ: "His family rushed out on hearing the gunshots and found Hameed lying in a pool of blood. The bullets, fired at close range, had pierced his neck and shoulder." Doctors pronounced the journalist dead on arrival at Benazir Bhutto Hospital.
Hameed was well-known and held in high regard. He was fluent in English, Urdu, and Punjabi, and frequently appeared on Al-Jazeera, analyzing political developments in Pakistan.
The day after the attack, Federal Information Minister Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira told the official Associated Press of Pakistan that "sick-minded criminals must have committed the murder of a journalist in Rawalpindi" and he promised "to leave no stone unturned in investigating the heinous crime."
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