WASHINGTON: An international media advocacy group urged Pakistani authorities on Tuesday to bring to justice all those responsible for the murder of cameraman Taimur Abbas who worked with a private television channel.

Mr Abbas worked with Samaa TV and was fatally shot on Sunday night while covering the aftermath of an attack on a police vehicle.

“His [Taimur Abbas] murder while reporting underscores the grave risks Pakistani journalists face reporting on the effects of political violence, particularly from secondary attacks,” said Joel Simon, the Executive Director of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Mr Simon advised Pakistani journalists to “exercise utmost caution when approaching the site of an attack”. The deceased and his colleagues arrived to cover the aftermath of a grenade attack on a police vehicle in the North Nazimabad area — there were no casualties in the attack itself, but the assailant shot at the news van later.

Published in Dawn, February 15th, 2017