Is media censorship in Pakistan comparable to Gen Zia's rule?
Channel: On Off The Record
Date: 14/06/2023

Muna Khan speaks to veteran journalist Ghazi Salahuddin about what it was like to work as an editor in Karachi during General Ziaul Haq's rule, a period considered one of the darkest for journalists and civil rights activists.  He talks about why he courted arrest, his meeting with General Zia, the "chalaaki" he did when writing his Karachi Diary for at least a decade and whether comparisons between the censorship today to that period is fair. This conversation is conducted in English and Urdu.

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