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‘The New Normal’ in Pakistan: a Journalist on the Run From Gunmen – The New York Times

‘The New Normal’ in Pakistan: a Journalist on the Run From Gunmen

Taha Siddiqui, a reporter and frequent critic of Pakistan’s military, escaped an attack by a dozen men who diverted his car just outside the capital.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/asia/pakistan-attack-journalists.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Fearing that his attackers would spot him from a distance, the investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui threw off his bright red sweater as he jumped into a ditch and crawled through mud and shrubs to reach a highway in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi.

January 11, 2018