🇵🇰 Pakistan Puts Journalist on Terrorism Watchlist After He Interviews Families of Children Killed by Its Army
🔹Pakistani authorities have placed journalist Danish Irshad on its Fourth Schedule, designating him a suspected terrorist and subjecting him to restrictions on his travel, his banking, and his access to financial services.
🔹Irshad tells Drop Site there is no court order behind the listing and there has been no trial. The Fourth Schedule is an administrative designation under Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Act (not a criminal conviction).
🔹Irshad began reporting in Islamabad in 2015 has covered Azad Jammu and Kashmir for nearly a decade, most recently interviewing families whose children were killed by Pakistan’s armed forces.
🔹His listing, issued by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Home Department without specific allegations against him, is part of a widening crackdown that has swept journalists and activists onto the watchlist since the June ban of the Jammu & Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee.
🔹He told Drop Site News: “Adding someone’s name to the Fourth Schedule without any court order and without any trial raises a serious question about the state’s credibility. How did a journalist’s speaking and writing become an act of terrorism? Declaring anyone guilty without trial can never be justified.”
The game was tough, very aggressive, but in the end, Ottawa won 3-1 against Montreal.
And two of the goals were Shane's hat trick.
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Back at the hotel, Shane finally turns his phone one.
Lots of calls form his mom, Harris and Ilya. Lots of messages too, from Pike, Ilya, Harris
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