Pak journo attacked after criticising army. ‘Worst kind of fascism’

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A Pakistani senior journalist was reportedly attacked by unknown people in Lahore on Friday night when he returned home. The attack on Ayaz Amir, 73, according to local reports, came the day after he mentioned the Pakistani Army General “Property Trader”.

The journalist said he had come home from work when his car was intercepted by unknown people, who dragged him out of the car and defeated him. Amir has returned from his office after recording his television program for TV channels based in Pakistan, Dunya News when the incident occurred.

Amir, spoke to the local media, said people whose faces were covered with masks not just hitting him and tore their clothes. They also took their cellphones and wallets and left the scene when people began to gather on a busy road.

Former Prime Minister Pak Imran Khan condemned the incident. In a tweet, he wrote: “I condemn the strongest terms against violence against senior journalist Ayaz Amir today in Lahore. Pakistan descended to the worst type of fascism with violence and fake firs against journalists, opposition politicians, and citizens. All moral authority uses violence. “

Journalists, lawyer bodies, and rights activists condemned the attack.

“The Supreme Court of Pakistan needs to take Suo Moto (awareness) of this terrorism to one of the most respected and non -controversial media figures. Ayyaz Amir is around 73 years old! One of the most respected English columnists ever made by Pakistan! HRCP and Dawn and Dawn and Dawn and Dawn Civil society must stand, “Senior journalist Moeed Peerzada Tweeted.

The attack on journalists was said to have followed his speech at a seminar in Islamabad about ‘changes in the regime and his fall in Pakistan’ on Thursday. During his speech, Amir targeted the establishment of military for his role in Pakistani politics and also called the Army General as a “property trader”. He reportedly also suggested to erase the portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Iqbal and replace him with “property dealer”. Imran Khan was also among the seminar participants.

whose speech became viral on social media – had also carried out a hidden excavation in the head of the Pakistani Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa, said that he was in the sixth year of his term of office and looking for another extension. Among other things, he also showed the previous government’s mistakes led by Imran Khan who collapsed in April after losing the voice of trust.

Chairman of Punjab Hamza Shehbaz has sought a report on the attack of senior journalists and ordered the criminals to be arrested earlier.