Pakistan weaponizes anti-terror laws against journalists challenging official narratives, subjecting them to relentless summons and incarceration, a fresh report charges. Authentic terrorists, by contrast, boldly fund, recruit, radicalize, and push violent jihad, ethnic purges, and expansionism.
PJ Media contributor Uzay Bulut decries the West’s ally status for Pakistan, symptomatic of a South Asian strategy marred by delusion, moral bankruptcy, and ignorance.
Key case: A tribunal sentenced eight journalists and social media users to life in absentia for pro-Imran Khan online expression. A New Yorker among them reports zero prior notice.
Terrorists revel in liberty. UN-blacklisted groups’ chiefs host open propaganda. Masood Azhar of Jaish-e-Mohammed exhorted jihad at a November 2023 member meet, invoking the Quran.
Proliferation of Jaish, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and cover outfits alarms observers. They run cross-country programs—drills, conferences, sessions—spewing jihadist and anti-India fervor to harden participants. Mosques echo their calls.
This bifurcated approach—punishing words while ignoring deeds—signals deep rot. Global oversight must confront how sheltering most-wanted figures undermines peace efforts.