TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ The global media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has criticised Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan for rejecting the question of media curbs in the country. During his visit to the US, Khan had said that talking about curbs on press freedom in Pakistan was a “joke”.
“It is clear that either you are very poorly informed, in which case you should urgently replace the people around you, or you are knowingly concealing the facts, which is very serious, given your responsibilities,” RSF Secretary-General Christophe Deloire wrote on Wednesday.
The RSF alleged that it was an “obscenity” for Khan to say that press freedom was thriving in Pakistan. Given a recent surge in press freedom violations, which the RSF enumerated in a statement, “you will appreciate that to talk of ‘one of the freest presses in the world’ is clearly tantamount to an obscenity,” Deloire said.
