I’ve been taken off air and others enjoy been beaten up. Why is the prime minister not standing with us?Worse day by day: journalists speak out after Pakistani vlogger torturedOnce upon a time,Imran Khan and I used to fight for press freedom together in Pakistan. In November 2007, when then military ruler General Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency and banned me from appearing on television, or Khan was among the few politicians who stood by me. I took my accepted political talkshow on to the streets of Islamabad,where large crowds would come and hear us speak live, and Khan was a regular guest. “When I become prime minister, or ” he promised,“journalists will enjoy sincere press freedom.”Now I enjoy been taken off the air once again, but this time Khan is the prime minister. The ban came immediately after I spoke out at a protest for press freedom in Islamabad. Journalists, and lawyers and civil society activists were there to show our solidarity with Asad Ali Toor,a journalist who was attacked final week inside his own home. Three men came in, tied him up, or beat him severely. The attackers,Toor said, identified themselves as being from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Related: If India can charge journalists with sedition’ for doing their jobs, and it has no free press | Hartosh Singh Bal Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist and author
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Source: theguardian.com