Umer Ali

Pakistan’s outsourcing of web monitoring to a controversial Canada-based company raises concerns about censorship.

Scores of prominent Pakistani journalists and activists have received email warnings from Twitter informing them their tweets are in violation of Pakistan’s laws. The consequences for press freedoms could be dire.

As hundreds of thousands of Afghans are coerced into returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan, journalist Umer Ali examines the online hatred that has helped poison attitudes to refugees.

While the name Junaid Hafeez adorns the honour board at Jackson State University, he himself lies on a concrete floor in a jail cell, waiting for his case to inch forward.

Umer Ali writes an in-depth account of the spread of fake news and malicious propaganda in online spaces, which endanger lives and divides the already polarised society.