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Attempt to Silence the Media in Pakistan

Unprecedented media suppression in Pakistan as journalist’s critical interview is silenced amid a government crackdown. Concerns rise over threats to free speech and expression. A disquieting thing happened yesterday. Three days back a Pakistani journalist Ali Hasnain Shah, who works as researcher/producer with Khabarhar Team of Aftab Iqbal, called me on whatsapp and said he wants to…

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Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa Faces Backlash Over Alleged Neglect of Human Rights Cases

The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faez Isa, is a disgrace to Pakistan’s judiciary, and reminds one the ‘hanging judge’ Judge Jeffreys. In my video interview to the Pakistani journalist Waqar Bagga of siasat.pk I had mentioned about Qazi Faez Isa’s misbehaviour on the 15 member full bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court hearing the petitions challenging the validity…

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Gen Munir, the financial wizard

One would have thought that the job of an army chief is to protect his country’s borders, and render assistance to the civilian authorities in cases of internal disturbances when asked by the latter. But it seems that the Pakistan army chief, Gen Munir, has other ideas, and believes he can fix Pakistan’s tumbling economy. He recently held several hours long meetings in Karachi…

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