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Amar Jaleel’s 2017 freedom of expression comments attract right-wing anger
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A four-year-old 2:18 minute video of Sindhi writer Amar Jaleel reading one of his short stories to demonstrate a point about the lack of freedom of expression in Pakistan at a literature festival has attracted the ire of rightwing circles with one cleric openly calling for him to be murdered by offering millions of rupees in head money. The snippet with Urdu subtitles of his Sindhi reading from the main session at the second Sindh Literature Festival in October 2017 was posted on Twitter on March 30. The moderator asked him about what he was comfortable talking about and he said that it was “rubbish” that there was “bandish” on freedom of speech and that he could say whatever he

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