Prominent Pakistani political TV talk-show host Hamid Mir was suspended from his regular program on Monday, his media group Geo News network said, following comments he made last week against the powerful military for its role in media censorship.
Islamabad, Pakistan – Prominent Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has been taken off the air just days after he spoke out against the country’s military at a protest against an attack on another journalist.
Mir told Al Jazeera he has been informed he will not be hosting “Capital Talk” on Geo News from Monday evening.
“I’ve only been told by Geo management that I won’t be hosting the show,” Mir said.
“They said there is a lot of pressure [after the statements at the protest last week]. They did not say who it is coming from.”
With specifying a reason for the move, Geo News’s management confirmed to Al Jazeera that Mir had been taken off-air and would not be hosting the show.
Islamabad, Pakistan – Prominent Pakistani journalist Absar Alam has been shot and wounded in what appears to be a targeted attack near his home, police say.
Alam was shot at a park near his home in the F-11 area of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday evening, a police spokesperson told Al Jazeera.
“He was shot in the stomach,” said Zia Bajwa, the spokesperson. “He has been operated on [at a local hospital] and he is OK, he is conscious.”
Alam, a senior broadcast journalist with more than two decades of experience, had also served as head of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), the country’s electronic media watchdog.
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Prominent Pakistani human rights defender and columnist I.A. Rehman has died at the age of 90, prompting an outpouring of grief and a wave of tributes to a true icon.
Rehman’s family said on April 12 that he passed away in the eastern city of Lahore after spending his life defending human rights and fighting for the rule of law and democracy in his country.
He was diabetic and suffered from high blood pressure, it said.
Tributes poured in on social media, with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi saying Pakistan had lost “a true icon.”
Rehman regularly contributed articles to Pakistani newspapers and was director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), which called him a titan of human rights.
Karima Baloch had been vocal about Pakistan Army and government atrocities in Balochistan.
Prominent Pakistani activist Karima Baloch who was found dead in Canada in December 2020, laid to rest in her home village in the southwestern Baluchistan province under tight security.
Only the immediate family of 37-year-old Karima Baloch were allowed to attend her funeral on Sunday in the village of Tump in Baluchistan.
Her supporters claim that Pakistani troops had sealed off the village and prevented them from attending her burial. Her remains were brought to Pakistan from Canada earlier on Sunday.
There were several reports claiming that the activist, Karima Baloch, was receiving death threats from the Pakistan military.