Coda Story • 24th October 2019 Pakistan moves to install nationwide 'web monitoring system' Pakistan’s outsourcing of web monitoring to a controversial Canada-based company raises concerns about censorship.
Coda Story • 19th February 2019 Warnings to Journalists Blur Twitter’s Transparency in Pakistan 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.
Refugees • 14th July 2018 Tweeting Hatred: The Hounding of Afghan refugees in Pakistan 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.
Dawn.com • 15th May 2016 Junaid Hafeez: condemned forever? 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.
Herald Magazine • 29th March 2018 Faking news: The dark side of news media 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.
