Pakistan ranked 9th on CPJ Global Impunity Index

 JournalismPakistan.com |  Published: 30 October 2021 |  Cherie Conela

The CPJ has once again placed Pakistan at ninth on its Global Impunity Index. This ranking reflects the alarming number of unsolved murders of journalists in the country.

Summary

NEW YORK—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has ranked Pakistan at number nine again this year on its annual Global Impunity Index 2021, highlighting countries where journalists are killed brutally, and the governments cannot arrest their murderers.

"These are the countries with the worst records of allowing killers of journalists to go free, according to CPJ's 2021 Impunity Index," the CPJ tweeted, mentioning the country name list as (i) Somalia, (ii) Syria, (iii) Iraq, (iv) South Sudan, (v) Afghanistan, (vi) Mexico, (vii) the Philippines, (viii) Brazil, (ix) Pakistan, (x) Russia, (xi) Bangladesh, and (xii) India.

The CPJ's Global Impunity Index counts the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population. For this purpose, the unsolved murder cases of journalists between September 1, 2011, to August 31, 2021, were analyzed.

Pakistan has been enlisted on the index since its inception in 2008.

KEY POINTS:

• Pakistan ranked 9th on CPJ's Global Impunity Index 2021.
• The index highlights countries with high rates of unsolved journalist murders.
• Pakistan has been on the index since its inception in 2008.
• The data analyzed unsolved cases from 2011 to 2021.
• CPJ focuses on journalist safety and accountability for their killers.