Sumaira Khan Pakistani female journalist who reported in adverse conditions in Afghanistan
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Sumaira Khan Pakistani female journalist who reported in adverse conditions in Afghanistan
How to work in bombings, target killings, how did they work, what is the attitude of Pakistan's Media out late , we know from their own words.
As soon as an event happens, the biggest demand of the channel is why some other channel has run or broadcast the news before us.
Or why you haven't and it has nothing to do with whether the collection of this news was possible for us or not.
Resources were or were not.
Just the first question is why we don't have when an incident like this happens, the first thing they say is that by any means you can get to the blast site.
Lies In newsrooms, directors, controllers, executive producers, the first pressure is on the reporter that you have to reach the exclusive place by any means, even if there is a blast there, another explosion or whatever, you have to be there and try everything.
Be it your first live hit or your visuals
Many difficulties have been faced in the emergency situation. This experience is not just one year but my experience of 19 years.
From life threat in the field to mob attack, stone pelting on people in processions, inappropriate behavior of police by shelling of tear gas, security agencies immediately to the place.
There are many such pressures when there is an order to vacate. But till date, Alhamdulillah, apart from one or two incidents, there have been five or four incidents in which I might have been hurt or have to face physical harm
In news there is a whole exploitative army, you can call it the desk. The desk people include the people who put the transmission on the air.
Then the biggest factor in that is if someone goes to the desk. If the guy is sitting or the producer is sitting with his head down, I have seen that he doesn't feel like talking to women either
Safety kit is nothing Bullet proof jackets I don't know about many institutions to date yes but I have adopted these things and covered myself in Afghanistan.
The rest of the starting time is ten or twelve years. Our time spent in the war zone is sometimes an emergency. What is your level of emergency?
In this case, the reporter is immediately driven away by the channel in case of an explosion or shooting or something like that.
At that time, I don't think they are told to cover themselves
I have seen many people get injured who wear full safety kits. Alhamdulillah, despite the heavy shelling and heavy firing that I have done in Afghanistan and other countries, nothing happened to me
In this, most of the time our estimates are wrong. We don't understand that the biggest damage is done, maybe in the cycle of virility or in the cycle of becoming a hero, we do some such actions. Which is called zero point torsion.
If you go and stand inside the cross shelling in the war zone then of course you have to
But if you are standing in a place where there is an explosion but you don't know that another explosion can happen here.
It is not your fault. You can get hurt even with helmet and bullet proof jackets because your Legs and both arms are in front. They have no safety kit. I think, despite being very careful, it depends on where we are reporting. So getting hurt is not out of the question..
We can avoid these situations if there is cross shelling and reporting can be done by standing on the side.
It is not necessary that we enter into it. Caution is necessary to look for a safe place and look for a high place where you can stand and report with satisfaction.
Below you can see if there is any problem
Our security is in our own hands. Many of our people showed a lot of negligence while reporting in Afghanistan.
They were forbidden to visit certain places like Ayman al-Zawahiri Jahan, which is where they were shot in Kabul.
In that drone attack, many journalists reached there while they were forbidden.
At that time, there is a transitional government and their law is the whole of Afghanistan.
If you don't listen to them, you will have to suffer the consequences. This is an example whichever country you are in
Respect the law there and if you don't then you will have to suffer the consequences.
Stay away from the crime scene, especially where the police have cordoned it off, do not forcefully enter the place, and take as much information as possible from a distance and tell it live in Eze Live in beepers.
If there has been a suicide bombing, then it is not necessary to stand near the body of the suicide bomber and make a beeper.
