ARY News, a private news channel and Express Group, which owns a private news channel and two newspapers, have attracted criticism for overtly siding with the military during this hard time on the media and reporters.
Three days later, Dunya News, a Lahore-based Pakistani private news channel, said its reporter, Rehmatullah Abid, had also been shot dead in Panjgur.
Founded in 1992, Makfax was the region's first private news agency.
The government has just lost a battle with the army over Geo, the country's most popular private news broadcaster.
Mr. Mehmood told the private news channel Geo that he saw the plane "descending very rapidly" before the crash.
"Our citizens lost their lives in five villages," Muammer Erol, the town's governor, told NTV, a private news broadcaster.
But we still don't have evidence of a strong recovery," he told NDTV, a private news channel.
Mr. Ovalles, though, calls the opposition "gangsters" and accuses private news organizations of faking the sizes of antigovernment marches.
That is freedom of extortion and blackmail," he said in response to concerns about recent crackdowns on private news organisations.
Since his government was toppled in 2003, private news outlets have proliferated, some independent and many affiliated with political parties.
The private news journals can't say anything about the economic downturn directly, though you can sometimes read between the lines.
