Popular Pakistani talk-show host taken-off screen after criticising military

Gulf Today Report

Prominent Pakistani political TV talk-show host Hamid Mir was suspended from his regular program on Monday, his media group Geo News network said, following comments he made last week against the powerful military for its role in media censorship, according to Reuters.

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A spokesman for Geo did not specify if Mir's absence was permanent, but his show was hosted by a stand-in anchor on Monday.

Since the 2018 crackdown, around 3,000 media personnel have lost their jobs in Pakistan, say local journalists' unions. The country is ranked among the five deadliest places for journalists to work by “Reporters Without Borders.”

Mir was shot multiple times and was wounded critically in 2014.