Karachi [ Pakistan ] October 9 (ANI): A local journalist, Muhammad Manaf, has condemned the continuing pattern of attacks and harassment against journalists in Pakistan , saying that such incidents are "nothing new" and that press freedom in the country remains largely an illusion.

Manaf stated that journalists across Pakistan face constant intimidation and violence for performing their professional duties. Journalists are harassed every day. The job of a journalist is to highlight issues in society, but some people do not like those issues, and that is why they are killed," he remarked. He criticised the government's repeated claims of ensuring media freedom, calling them far removed from reality. "It is said that the media is free, but it is not. "A journalist cannot express his o

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