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Video: Editor Zaffar Abbas on the dangers of journalism in Pakistan

Zaffar Abbas is Editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s most prestigious English language newspaper. His career includes a 16-year stint for the BBC as one of its Pakistan correspondents.

by WAN-IFRA Staff executivenews@wan-ifra.org | June 7, 2013

In this video from the World Editors Forum in Bangkok he explains the importance of journalist safety in a country where “in the last 13 years more than 85 journalists have been killed and many more injured or abducted”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27tuwT2Srk8

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