Pakistan - Threatened journalists condemn growing insecurity for the media

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On 28 December, one of Pakistan's most renowned journalists, Najam Sethi, editor-in-chief of the weekly The Friday Times and a television commentator, announced that in the past six months he had received “serious threats” from “state and non-state actors”, an expression used to mean intelligence agents and members of banned militant organizations. Four other journalists have recently indicated they have also been threatened. “Independent journalists are increasingly in the firing line of the (...)

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