Hard talking #pakistani journalist #wajahatsaeedkhan covers #pakistan #pakistannews #pakistanarmy and the #pakistani diaspora like nobody else. His latest report is about why he's leaving the #GangOf4, which is a regular show he conducts with ‪@DrMoeedPirzadaOfficial‬ ‪@drshahbazgill‬ and ‪@SabirShakir‬.
Wajahat's take is simple: he was censored by his colleague/s out of a show which he co-owns and co-produces. His views were removed without his permission, nor any warning, for a flimsy reason.
Earlier on July 11, Wajahat helped co-produce the latest version of #gangof4 for Sabir Shakir's channel. But the actual broadcast revealed that almost 10 minutes of Wajahat's -- and only Wajahat's -- conversation were wiped clean. Here's the link to that broadcast: • The Explosive (PODCAST...
Considering that Wajahat, Moeed, Gill and Sabir do the show together, and on a round-robin basis, with nothing ever censored, Wajahat tried to find out why he was censored out of this show.
The excuse that he was given by Sabir was: "Barrister reviewed, he suggested, because our vlogs strictly monitored اور پھر نئے مقدمات فوج میں بغاوت کا الزام , they have plan new cases against us. So some precautions ضروری۔"
This is disingenuous, and a fallacy. No lawyers have been reviewing the shows. And if they are being shown this production, with whose permission?
Wajahat maintains that this censorship by his collegue/s to please the military, as well as other members of the media establishment.
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Bio: Wajahat S. Khan is an Emmy-nominated journalist and author reporting on Indo-Pacific security and focusing on the Af-Pak conflict. An Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Center of Global Affairs and non-resident Senior Fellow at Washington’s Atlantic Council, Khan is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and the University of Michigan, as well as Pakistan’s only Shorenstein Fellow for Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has reported from 16 countries covering conflict, diplomacy, and media for digital, cable and network news. During the final years of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, Khan was bureau chief in Kabul and Islamabad for NBC News, and embedded with over a hundred NATO, Afghan, Indian and Pakistani military and paramilitary units as he covered South Asia for leading US, British, Indian, Japanese and Pakistani networks and publications since the beginning of the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Recently, he served as the Digital Editor at Nikkei Asia, where he launched Nikkei’s first podcast series, and edited a popular weekend newsletter at the Eurasia Group. He frequently dabbles in cricket, and is the author of the 2019 Amazon / Harper Collins non-fiction bestseller, “Game Changer: Being Shahid Afridi.” He lives between New York City, London and Karachi.