Pakistan's cricket fans wave a national flag in Karachi, Pakistan on June 20, 2017. Pakistan's interior ministry ordered he Interior Ministry on January 19, 2018 ordered the Pashto-language service of U.S. Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Mashaal, to close immediately. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
A salesman waits for customers at the Melody food market in Islamabad, Pakistan September 15, 2017. Regional authorities in Pakistan brought charges against an Islamabad-based journalist after he wrote an unflattering column about members of their regional assembly.(Reuters/Caren Firouz)

Pakistani journalist faces terrorism and defamation charges for article critical of regional government