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Benazir Shah

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  • Editor, Geo Fact Check, Geo News English
  • None, Geo News / The News International
London, Pakistan
As seen in: Geo News English, Newsweek, Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy Magazine, Arab News, ThePrint, Farmlandgrab, Arab News Pakistan, newsweekpakistan.com
Won the 2013 U.N. Correspondents Association Award for Newsweek’s coverage of the polio campaign. Editor @GeoFactCheck
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Geo Fact Check Investigation: When RTI requests fail to deliver

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By Benazir Shah Verified
| The News Pakistan
This image shows the aircraft 2019 Gulfstream G500. — aircraftexchange/File LAHORE: The questions were simple: Who was using the luxury vehicles purchased with public money by the Punjab assembly? Who travelled with the Punjab chief minister to Brazil? Who operates a controversial internet monitoring system? But getting answers proved far harder. Over the past two years, Geo Fact Check’s journalists filed three right-to-information requests with public bodies in Islamabad and Punjab.
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When finding a lawyer is the first battle

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By Benazir Shah Verified
| The News Pakistan
In this representational image, a lawyer writing on a paper at his chamber. — Unsplash/File The phone calls always ended the same way.As *Fatima moved from one lawyer’s office to another in Islamabad, pleading for someone to defend her younger brother, she was met with refusals. Most lawyers simply said the case was too dangerous. Her brother, *Ali, had been accused of blasphemy.The 21-year-old recent graduate was due to appear before a court in Islamabad in 2024.
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Experts question social media figures shared with Senate

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By Benazir Shah Verified
| The News Pakistan
Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Kick, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Reddit, Threads and X applications are displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration. — Reuters LAHORE: Doubts have emerged over the authenticity of official figures recently presented to a Senate committee on social media usage in Pakistan, including claims that 20 per cent of social media accounts in the country are fake and that platforms comply with 83 per cent of Pakistan’s content removal requests.
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