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Pakistan press faces "unprecedented" threats

Pakistani journalist, publisher, and 1999 recipient of CPJ's International Press Freedom Award, Najam Sethi, tells CPJ that the country is facing "unprecedented" challenges to press freedom. Broadcasters Geo TV, Capital TV, 24 News HD, and the Abbtakk News Network are forced off the air, and Sethi's show is cancelled amid a defamation suit from Prime Minister Imran Khan. In June, Pakistani journalist Muhammad Bilal Khan is stabbed to death in Islamabad. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)

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