The treatment meted out this past week to journalists Amir Mir and Imran Shafqat has drawn condemnation from voices in the media and rights communities. But for the most part, the ordeal of the two journalists has been treated with gloomy acceptance. A media space which was vibrant and abuzz with debate just five years […]
The highest form of criminality is when the act and the perpetrator are known to all, well in advance. And the brazen attack on journalist Asad Ali Toor came with this sickening clockwork predictability. In the media, we knew of it in advance and had already braced ourselves for it. For instance, in connection with […]