The latest attack on Youtuber and journalist Asad Ali Toor, who is often critical of powerful quarters, demonstrates the growing hostility toward dissenting viewpoints in Pakistan. Unidentified assailants reportedly entered his home in Islamabad, the capital of the country, and brutally beat him. Before this incident, a renowned journalist, and former Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory […]
Pakistan and India have been adversaries since the 1947 Partition. Both nations had divergent ideological foundations and religious grounds on which both were separated. Muslim minorities in the adversary state have been facing social and economic sufferings for over a decade; and so has Pakistan. Hindutva politics, nurtured by the government of Bharatiya Janata Party […]
That the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has proved to be a bed of thorns for media is well known. In a latest round of barbaric attacks and public endorsements, the ruling party has displayed its unflinching inclination for government friendly media. The bizarre endorsement on Twitter berated critical journalists as sponsors of ‘corrupt’ narrative and […]