Published on 12:00 AM, January 22, 2020

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Pak journo detained for Facebook posts

A Pakistani journalist critical of the government and the army has been detained for five days for having published "anti-state" comments online, his lawyer told AFP yesterday, in a new illustration of shrinking freedoms in Pakistan. Azhar-ul Haq Wahid made several comments about the Pakistani establishment on his Facebook account. Wahid was arrested last Thursday in the eastern city of Lahore, and has been in custody since.