Salute to the “Great Journalists” In Dark Corners of the Globe - Muhammad Khurshid

Good journalists watch, see, write, report, and comment.

Great journalists go where they are totally unwanted and do those things exceptionally well.

I consider Muhammad Khurshid a great journalist.  He went home to Pakistan’s tribal areas, an area of the world crawling with any number of al Qaeda and Taliban militants that could have killed him at any time, and he brilliantly kept many in the West informed of the situation.

When the Pakistani Army moved right into his back yard, we lost touch with him and we feared he was lost.  But God protected him (again) and we are thankful.  We hope he is reunited soon with his family.

Muhammad is threatend in the course of his work with death from terrorists, from the Pakistani government and its Army and officials, and even from ‘death from above’ due to the activities of missile-armed drone aircraft from the U.S. and its coalitional allies.

There are great journalists under fire in all the dark corners of the world. 

There are those that want to prevent reporting and eyewitnesses who usually have something to hide.  More often, they have plenty to hide.  These people reside in such unsavory houses of power as in Myanmar, Zimbabwe, and yes, even in China and Russia.

We salute today those great and brave journalists and we stand in awe of them.