“Shrinking freedom: Pakistan’s steady march into authoritarianism (IANS Analysis)”, IANS, December 03, 2025
“New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) With each new legal manoeuvre that strengthens the military establishment’s grip behind the veneer of civilian rule, Pakistan edges closer to an Orwellian security state.
Dissent is increasingly criminalised, surveillance has become routine, and the media landscape now operates as a carefully managed sphere in which the establishment shapes and limits the national narrative.
The latest Freedom on the Net 2025 and Freedom in the World 2025 reports by Washington-based Freedom House capture this steady and alarming contraction of Pakistan’s civic space……”
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