{"id":31896,"date":"2024-04-04T10:28:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T05:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=31896"},"modified":"2024-10-09T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:09:28","slug":"afghan-journalist-ahmad-hanayesh-survives-assassination-attempt-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/afghan-journalist-ahmad-hanayesh-survives-assassination-attempt-in-islamabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan journalist Ahmad Hanayesh survives assassination attempt in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">ISLAMABAD: In another attempt to sabotage press freedom in Pakistan, Afghan journalist Ahmad Hanayesh survived an assassination attempt at 11:00 am last night in the G-6 sector of<span class=\"r-18u37iz\"> Islamabad.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Ahmad Hanayesh,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">affiliated with <\/span>Radio Azadi\u00a0<span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">and a member of the Pak-Afghan Journalists Union was attacked by three unknown assailants while he was on his way home in the G-6 Embassy Road area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hanayesh&#8217;s son, Shakeel Hanayesh told Afghan media agency, <em>Amu TV <\/em>that his father was attacked outside the house, as a result of which his leg and head were injured. <span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">They shot him from close range, with one bullet grazing his head and two penetrating his leg deeply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sc-restrains-fia-from-arrests-of-journalists\/\">SC restrains FIA from arresting of journalists<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Hanayesh received <span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">first aid at <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">PIMS and according to his son, he was later transferred to a private<\/span> hospital in Islamabad and his surgery is still ongoing. <span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Doctors have described his condition as critical as two bullets remain lodged in his leg, and they plan to remove them after surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the return of the Taliban to power in Kabul, like many other journalists, Ahmad Hanaish also left Afghanistan and refuged in Pakistan.\u00a0<em>Amu TV <\/em>quoting several Afghan journalists said that after this incident, journalists in Pakistan do not have life immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists and media watchdogs have s<span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">trongly condemned the attack on Afghan journalist Hanayesh and urged Islamabad police to investigate the matter and arrest culprits and <\/span><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">give protection to Afghan journalists who took shelter in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: In another attempt to sabotage press freedom in Pakistan, Afghan journalist Ahmad Hanayesh survived an assassination attempt at 11:00 am last night in the G-6 sector of Islamabad. Ahmad Hanayesh,\u00a0affiliated with Radio Azadi\u00a0and a member of the Pak-Afghan Journalists Union was attacked by three unknown assailants while he was on his way home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":31915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,9,2],"tags":[14438,14437,14436,14439,14440,14441],"class_list":["post-31896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-afghan-journalist-assassination-attempt","tag-ahmad-hanaish","tag-ahmad-hanayesh","tag-ahmad-hanayesh-assassination-attempt-in-islamabad","tag-attack-on-afghan-journalist-in-pakistan","tag-attack-on-ahmad-hanayesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51796,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31896\/revisions\/51796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}