Najam in NYT on Pre-Election Military Crackdown in Pakistan
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for an article examining a campaign mounted by Pakistan’s military establishment against its critics in the media only a month and a half ahead of the country’s national elections.
Najam was interviewed for a June 6, 2018 article in the New York Times entitled “In Pre-election Pakistan, a Military Crackdown Is the Real Issue.“
From the text of the article:
“There is a palpable climate of fear about what can be said about whom, how, and where — not just on mainstream media but also on social media,” said Adil Najam, the Dean of Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. “This is not healthy for the state of democracy in general, but especially not right before an election.”
Najam was previously interviewed by New York Times columnists Max Fisher and Amanda Taub for their news analysis on the political climate in Pakistan after a 2017 Supreme Court verdict forced the country’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign. Read full article here.
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He has studied and been involved with the UN Human Development Reports since their initiation in the early 1990s. Read more about him here.