(19 Jun 2017) Pakistan has long been considered one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, but according to journalists, Pakistani and international human rights activists, and journalist advocacy groups; the situation is getting even worse.
Bakhsheesh Elahi was waiting for the morning bus when a lone gunman on a motorcycle pulled up beside him and shot him dead.
Rana Tanveer had just taken his family to safety, after radical Islamists spray-painted death threats on his door, when a car smashed into his motorcycle; sending him to hospital.
While Taha Siddiqui answered his phone to a voice on the other end of the line that was both threatening and menacing, telling him he needed to come in for questioning, without saying what was his crime.
Just three examples in recent months.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has lodged protests in the case of all three journalists, and says 60 journalists and 10 media workers have been killed in Pakistan since 1992.
Another 21 were killed in that same period but the CPJ could not determine with certainty that their deaths were linked to the work they did.
On June 11, Elahi, who had a reputation among fellow journalists in northwest Pakistan's Haripur of being a fearless investigative reporter, was waiting for a bus when a gunman on a motorcycle pulled up alongside him and shot him at point blank range, once in the chest and in the arm and the fatal bullet to the head.
Elahi, a father-of-five, including a daughter born just 20 days before, was standing barely a few 100 metres (328 feet) from his home when he was shot.
Local journalists carried his body into the street, stopping traffic, demanding the culprits be arrested, said Zakir Hussain Tandi, president of the Haripur Press Club.
But impunity has characterised many of the attacks against journalists in Pakistan.
Elahi, who was bureau chief of an Urdu language newspaper and sister television station, was the fourth journalist killed in Haripur district in the last three years.
All but one of the murders have gone unsolved.
Elahi's Facebook page featured his relentless reporting against political corruption, which even prompted one of the country's largest television news channels to feature one of his stories.
Pakistani journalists and social media activists have been detained - often by intelligence agencies - tortured. according to some who were released and threatened with blasphemy charges, which carry the death penalty and routinely incite mobs of radical extremists to violence.
Last month Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ordered a crackdown on "those ridiculing the Pakistan Army on social media (to protect) the prestige, reputation and goodwill," of the country's armed forces.
On May 18 Taha Siddiqui, Pakistan's correspondent for France 24 TV, got a threatening call from the Federal Investigation Agency ordering him to come in for questioning, identifying himself as from the counter-terrorism wing.
Siddiqui, who is also bureau chief of the online World Is One News, is an outspoken critic of Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies.
Siddiqui said his mind raced. He telephoned colleagues, didn't answer his door and eventually spoke to human rights lawyer Jehangir who said he had the option to go to court and file a petition demanding to know why he was being investigated.
Siddiqui has already made at least one court appearance and was told by the FIA agent who called him that he was being investigated because of his critical stories about the military.
Dozens are facing charges.
But they didn't register a case.
It sped away.
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