Pakistan Democracy Islamabad: Pakistan's popular journalist Hamid Mir has criticised the shrinking space for press freedom and the growing “climate of fear” for media persons in Pakistan.
He even went ahead and said Pakistan does not have a 'democracy'.
“There is democracy in Pakistan but there is no democracy. There is a constitution in Pakistan but there is no constitution. And I am a living example of censorship in Pakistan,” Mir told BBC as quoted by Dawn News.
When asked by Stephen Sackur, the host of the BBC show HardTalk if intelligence agencies were behind the attack on journalists, including Asad Toor who was attacked in his home in the capital by masked men, Mir said: “These are documented facts and the state agencies and the intelligence agencies were blamed again and again for organising attacks or kidnapping journalists.”
Mir added that journalists want the rule of law to be established in Pakistan.
“If a journalist is asking questions, don’t try to silence his voice,” he said.
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