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A $1.9B Chinese-backed coal plant was supposed to fix Pakistan’s energy crisis.
Instead, adjacent communities report rising respiratory illness while the country remains locked into costly power contracts and circular debt. My latest for @insideclimate.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
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#Pakistan: The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Pakistan authorities to withdraw sweeping restrictions preventing television network broadcasts from airing live coverage of terrorist attacks and other vaguely defined “unpleasant” incidents. Journalists and media workers must be able to report breaking news and current affairs independently, free from fear of legal retaliation, and in the public interest.
On October 13, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) ordered all satellite television channels to refrain from broadcasting, rebroadcasting, or airing live coverage of any “unfortunate” or “unpleasant” incident, including explosions, blasts, shootings, and terrorist attacks, according to a copy of the directive reviewed by CPJ.
“Preventing journalists from independent reporting of major security incidents and requiring them to rely on information authorized by state and security agencies risks turning legitimate safety safeguards into a system of official information control and censorship,” said Waliullah Rahmani, CPJ’s Afghanistan and Pakistan representative. “Pakistani authorities must rescind these sweeping restrictions and allow newsrooms to make responsible editorial decisions without fear of regulatory retaliation.”
More: cpj.org/2026/10/pakistan-med…
#PressFreedom
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Reporters Without Borders "deeply concerned to hear of the arrest of journalists covering a protest in Leicester, particularly given they had identified themselves as such to police.
“No journalist should have to weigh the risk of arrest against their duty to inform the public."
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Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine is hospitalised, after being brutally attacked by Israeli settlers this morning
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This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
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This is the result of 7+ years of Trump's attacks on @Ilhan, Somali-Americans, & the Muslim community.
Everyone, regardless of party, must speak out against this fascistic abuse of power.
If they can do this to a sitting Congresswoman, they can & will do it to anyone.
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump admin's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe. wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha…
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Two Israeli companies manipulated online advertisements to install surveillance software on dozens of computers at the Qatari news organization Al Jazeera bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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This is the present day Pakistan after 4 & a half years of Shahbaz Sharif:
- Pakistan has by far the highest poverty rate in the region (4 times compared to Bangladesh & India)
- Pakistan has by far the highest unemployment rate in the region.
- Pakistan has the highest inflation in the region
- Pakistan has the highest petrol & diesel prices in the region and by far
- Pakistan has the highest electricity & gas prices in the region
- Pakistan has the most expensive wheat flour in the region
- Pakistan has the highest taxes in the region
- Pakistan has the lowest per capita income in the region
- Pakistan has the highest interest rates in the region
- Pakistan has the highest number of out of school children in the region
- Pakistan has the highest number of stunted children in the region
- Pakistan has the worst ranking in human development index in the region
- Pakistan is number one on the World terrorism index.
- Pakistan has the worst investment ratio in the region
- Pakistan’s exports are the lowest compared to India & Bangladesh
I can go on and the list is long.
But where are we heading.
Another year and imagine the fate of common Pakistanis.
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Wow!
This graph depicting the Palestinian vs. Israeli death toll from 1940 to the present shows exactly when the genocide begins - and why it is a genocide...
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Secretary Rubio called Amnesty International a fraud instead of answering a question about U.S. strikes. The great irony of Secretary Rubio’s attack on Amnesty is that he’s leading U.S. attempts to destroy the international justice system. We call his bluff. Read our new blog: bit.ly/4802bfe
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Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post. theintercept.com/2026/10/15/…
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More proof of the complete absurdity of the proscription of Palestine Action.
What a stain on this government that people in this country are unable to buy and enjoy the work of one of this generation’s greatest writing talents.
De-proscribe Palestine Action now.
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Important evidence of rape and other sexual violence by Israelis against Palestinian civilians collected by Professor @maynard_nick and his colleagues, detailed, evidence-heavy peer reviewed paper published @bmj_latest
Please read and share this article from *The BMJ* on *"Sexual violence against Palestinians". It’s difficult reading, but must be shared. Five doctors and legal scholars examine the evidence and call for independent investigations and accountability.
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
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Gaza is entering its third winter under genocidal conditions, with Palestinians denied shelter, sanitation, clean water & nutritious food––while still being bombed. Please give what you can to help them survive the nightmare our government is bankrolling: gaza-city.org/campaign/6
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Completely absurd & disgraceful
"Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support. She can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest"
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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As Pakistan’s government arrests opposition leaders and suspends an elected provincial government, President Trump continues to embrace its military chief.
The United States should stand with the Pakistani people, not enable political repression. We must press for the release of political prisoners, including Imran Khan.
commondreams.org/news/us-bac…
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The elected Chief Minister of a province being rendered a missing person brings me back to the first missing person of this country, our founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
He demoted a General, for merely having a political opinion, namely Ayub Khan, and posted him to the East Pakistan Rifles, barring him from any further promotion.
On 14 June 1948, the Quaid addressed the Quetta Staff College and said, and I quote, “Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people.” He knew what they were up to and the harm they would do to his country.
It didn’t sit well with the armed forces. A month later, Quaid-e-Azam was abducted and taken to Ziarat against his will.
Ziarat has a 4,000-year-old history, yet in those 4,000 years, it received its first patient. There exists no sanatorium, no hospital, not even a dispensary, to this day. Even today, we cannot easily visit it. It is still kept primitive.
The Quaid was cut off from the world there, just as Imran Khan is today, and so is Sohail Afridi. He, too, was placed in “protective custody.” This nation never saw him again.
All of Pakistan’s problems will vanish the day we recover the first missing person, our Quaid, who was left to die, and the day the Generals accept their fate as servants of the people, bow their heads, and salute the civilian.
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Advocate Bashir Wazir, who yesterday filed habeas corpus petitions seeking the recovery of the abducted Chief Minister and Speaker of the KP Assembly, has reportedly himself been abducted in broad daylight outside the Peshawar High Court. This is a grave assault on the rule of law, the independence of the legal profession and the administration of justice
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🚨NEW: After a months-long investigation, we can reveal that a British national who posed in front of a burning school in Gaza fought for Israel and may have participated in war crimes.
An exclusive with @declassifiedUK colleagues:
declassifieduk.org/revealed-…
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We must all salute these guys for glorifying Pakistan this way - What an incentive for foreigners to visit us
ایک غیر ملکی خاتون سیاح جو پاکستان ریلوے میں سفر کررہی ہیں، انکی جانب سے یہ ویڈیو شیئر کی گئی ہے..!
سیکیورٹی یقیناً ضروری ہے، لیکن اس کے ساتھ سیاحوں کی عزتِ نفس، ذاتی احترام اور ذہنی آسودگی کا خیال رکھنا بھی اتنا ہی اہم ہے
غیر ملکی سیاح ہمارے ملک کے مہمان ہیں۔ ان کا اچھا تجربہ پاکستان کے مثبت تشخص، سیاحت کے فروغ اور عالمی سطح پر ہمارے ملک کے بارے میں اچھا تاثر قائم کرنے میں اہم کردار ادا کر سکتا ہے۔