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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Abid Hussain

Don’t cover Imran Khan’s PTI: Pakistan’s media told to censor popular ex-PM

A journalist poses with a cell phone displaying a speech by Imran Khan [File: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]

Islamabad, Pakistan – Journalist Amir Mehmood* was getting ready for work when his phone buzzed with a WhatsApp message.

As a member of the top management at a private news channel in Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, Mehmood was used to getting non-stop calls and messages, even at odd hours.

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