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Homemade bomb thrown into journalist's home

(PPF/IFEX) - On 3 March 2005, a homemade bomb was thrown into the home of Khurshid Ahmed, president of the press club in Gilgit, capital city of Pakistan's Northern Areas.

Press reports quoting Ahmed, who is the bureau chief of the Islamabad-based, Urdu-language daily "Khabrain", speculated that the attack may have been in retaliation for the stand taken by local journalists refusing to print or disseminate hate literature or provocative statements issued by militants and sectarian organisations.

The Gilgit Union of Journalists condemned the attack. The union organised a march and staged a sit-in in front of the Northern Areas Chief Secretary's office.