Pak journo booked for linking ‘disrespectful’ remarks about Islam to Imran Khan | World News

A Pakistani journalist was booked for allegedly attributing "disrespectful" statements about Islam to former Prime Minister Imran Khan, based on native media.

Rawalpindi police have registered a case in opposition to journalist Waqar Satti at RA Bazar police station on Saturday, Daybreak newspaper reported on Sunday.

The case was registered on the criticism of a cable operator, Chaudhry Nasir Qayyum, underneath Sections 295-A and 500 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

In accordance with the primary data report (FIR) cited by Daybreak, the complainant informed the police that whereas he was at his workplace on August 24, he got here throughout a tweet through which a person, recognized as Waqar Satti, defined why he "hates" Imran and causes of him going in opposition to the previous prime minister.

FIR talked about statements that, based on the complainant, "disrespected" Islam.

"Imran Khan has not talked about any such phrases talked about in Waqar Satti's tweet -- in any of his speeches," the FIR quoted the complainant as saying.

He added that Satti's actions had damage his non secular sentiments, "in addition to that of hundreds of different Muslims".

In Pakistan, freedom of the press continues to deteriorate, a senior journalist was shot useless by unidentified assailants on Saturday.

The incident occurred within the Toba Tek Singh province of Pakistan's Punjab when the deceased journalist, Muhammad Younis was on his technique to his farmland at Mouza Manganwala on his motorbike when two males hiding in a area opened gunfire, based on Daybreak.

The capturing incident left the journalist useless on the spot and the attackers then fled the scene.

Taking discover of the brutal homicide, the Punjab Inspector Common of Police (IGP) Faisal Shahkar has sought a report from Faisalabad Regional Police Officer (RPO) Babar Sarfraz Alpa.

Furthermore, Jhang District Police Officer (DPO) Rashid Hidayat ordered the rapid arrest of the journalist's killers, constituting a workforce consisting of Shorkot deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and different skilled officers to probe the incident, Daybreak reported.

The curb on media freedom in Pakistan has highlighted that media freedom has been underneath severe query within the South-Asian nation.

The on a regular basis hardships confronted by journalists who threat their lives in largely low-paid jobs to fulfil a essential function in Pakistan proceed to be subjected to incessant violence and abductions.

Media staff, each area reporters and desk workers are more and more experiencing both harassment or monetary hardship or each. They're being threatened, silenced and squeezed. Be it a prime-time TV anchor or a beat reporter, the threats exist for everybody.

Even media group homeowners should not proof against such harassment.

Notably, Pakistan has been ranked the fifth most harmful place for the observe of journalism, based on the Worldwide Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

In accordance with the media experiences, 138 media individuals within the nation misplaced their lives within the line of responsibility between 1990 and 2020. Pakistan stays among the many prime 10 nations the place predators of assaults on journalists and media go unpunished.