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Saeed Shah
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Saeed Shah
@SaeedShah
Journalist based in South Asia. Part of Wall Street Journal team that was a finalist for 2022 Pulitzer Prize. Former Londoner. [email protected]
Joined June 2009
- All girls over the age of 15 and widows younger than 40 should be married to the insurgent fighters, a local Taliban leader told the congregation at Friday prayers...One of those present was later summoned and ordered to hand over his 15-year-old daughter
- Fears growing for safety of Pakistani journalist Imran Riaz Khan, who went missing during a crackdown on the main opposition party. RSF: “The Pakistani authorities will be held directly responsible for any harm that may have befallen him.” #Imranriazkhan
- An interview was allowed to air with a terrorist in state custody, who had claimed responsibility for his group for killing more than 130 children in just one of their attacks, but an interview with a political opposition leader was stopped. #CensorshipInPakistanWhat’s wrong in it?I asked some questions to ex President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari he responded?Is he bigger criminal than Ehsanullah Ehsan former spokesman of TTP?Remember Ehsanullah Ehsan gave interview from official custody I interviewed Asif Zardari in Parliament House
00:00 - “This government wants a selected judiciary, a selected media and a selected opposition,” said @BBhuttoZardari
- “I’m seeing an Imran Khan I haven’t seen for 15, 20 years. He’s at his best when he’s confronted with a huge challenge… He’s relishing it.”
- MUST READ by @Jon_Boone Nawaz Sharif remains the most popular politician in Pakistan capx.co/lTIYY via @CapX
- Taliban leadership is admonishing rank-and-file fighters to stop goofing around taking selfies, hanging out in groups at tourist sites, driving fast, and looking shabby. “You are damaging our status, which has been created with the blood of our martyrs”
- The Pakistani government says that the country has a free press, while it is championing human rights abroad, in Indian-held Kashmir and Israel/Palestine. Hamid Mir spoke out after a journalist critical of the authorities was beaten up. Now Hamid Mir's show is taken off the air.Nothing new for me.I was banned twice in the past.Lost jobs twice.Survived assassination attempts but cannot stop raising voice for the rights given in the constitution.This time I m ready for any consequences and ready to go at any extent because they are threatening my family.
- A sad day for journalism in Pakistan, as the crackdown on press freedom continues. Najam Sethi writes a weekly must-read column and had a must-watch show, delivering the inside scoop on what is really going on in the country's labyrinthine civil-military political landscapeMy show on Channel 24 HD has been taken off air.
- All of Afghanistan’s 2,500 hospitals and clinics that were previously funded by the World Bank with money coming from donors like the European Union and the U.S. have given notice to the Health Ministry that they can’t continue operations beyond Sept. 10
