Pakistan. A murder in Karachi (Mohammad Taqi, South Asia Monitor)

Activist and blogger Khurram Zaki was shot and killed last week in Karachi. He was known for his vocal criticism of the Pakistan-based jihadists and anti-Shia sectarian terrorists. A faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the assassination, indicating that despite the military’s Operation Zarb-e-Azb in the country’s tribal region and a paramilitary campaign in Karachi, the jihadists retain the capability to silence voices that call them out for their heinous crimes. Interestingly, the blog Let Us Build Pakistan that Zaki coedited has been quite sympathetic to the Pakistani army chief, General Raheel Sharif, and his policies. I recall that the blog had posted a scathing critique of me and the prominent Pakistani scholar, Ayesha Siddiqa, when we raised concerns about General Raheel Sharif cherry-picking which terrorists to go after in Operation Zarb-e-Azb

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