PAKISTAN’S press freedom crisis is no longer something that can be dismissed as routine criticism. When nine rights and media organisations — including the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and the International Federation for Human Rights — warn Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of a “rapidly deteriorating” environment, the alarm deserves a substantive response. Their concerns are specific: journalists have disappeared, faced detention and criminal investigations, been obstructed from reporting in parts of the country, and, allegedly under official pressure, lost jobs or........

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