Pakistan Bans Reporter From Leaving the Country

Pakistan has banned one of its leading journalists from leaving the country, after he reported on a secret meeting between the country’s prime minister and the army’s top spy. Writing Monday on Twitter, journalist Cyril Almeida, a columnist and reporter for the English-language Dawn newspaper, said he had been placed on the government’s so-called exit control list, just days after his October 6 story on the high-level meeting. The report detailed a faceoff between Prime Minister Nawaz...

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