PESHAWAR: A reporter working for DawnNews television channel has complained to police that he has been getting telephone calls threatening him with dire consequences for the last few days.

Hassan Farhan Tariq, the channel’s crime reporter, said some people had been calling him from unknown numbers, telling him that some of “your reports are inimical to national interest”. The callers also insisted on naming the source of a story.

The Peshawar bureau chief of DawnNews confirmed that he had overheard a caller telling Mr Tariq that his report regarding arrest of three suspects over the terrorist attack on Peshawar’s Agriculture Training Institute was against national interest.

The West Cantonment police station, after registering the reporter’s complaint, offered him some safety tips.

Police advised Mr Tariq to restrict his movements, install CCTV cameras and barbed wire near his home and office, hire a security guard and get lighting arrangements in his neighbourhood improved.

Published in Dawn, December 21st, 2017