Pakistan's prominent journalists left country after severe threats

October 30, 2022

By The South Asia Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan prominent journalist and TV anchor Imran Riaz Khan has left the country after continuous severe threats to his life, his friends said on Sunday.

Khan who was arrested by the local authorities in sedition cases and then the court released him in July this year was constantly under threat from the local authorities.

“I spoke with Imran Riaz Khan and he left the country as he was receiving threats from those people who were threatening Arshad Sharif,” Ather Kazmi, a senior journalist said in his vlog.

Arshad Sharif left the country in August this year after the government registered sedition cases against him and then he was assassinated by Kenyan police last week.

Both journalists were strong critics of the country's powerful military establishment and ruling 13 parties PDM alliance who toppled the former prime minister Imran Khan government in April this year through a no-confidence motion in the parliament.

Both of them considered that PDM was used by the US to oust Khan from power and they were part of the regime change operation in the South Asian Country.

Former PM Imran Khan also accused Washington to carry out regime change operations in Pakistan. The accusation was rejected by the US.

Journalists who are criticizing the current PDM government in Pakistan are feeling fear after Arshad Sharif's assassination as most of them have limited their activities and some of them reportedly receive life threats.