Charlie Alford

Pakistan blocks Al Jazeera over Kashmir protest coverage

Post author:The Canary
Post published:4 August 2026
Post last modified:5 August 2026

Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has accused Al Jazeera of using “handpicked polling stations” and “scripted statements” in Muzaffarabad to “delegitimise” the electoral process in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). We have taken note of Al Jazeera’s selective reporting from handpicked polling stations in Muzaffarabad today. Through carefully chosen timings and scripted statements from selected individuals, the channel has sought to misrepresent the AJK elections and the voting process. Such… — Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (@MoIB_Official) August 2, 2026 Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) posted on X that Pakistan had blocked the site following its reporting: Pakistan…

Ahmed Wishah is twelfth Al Jazeera journalist to be assassinated by Israel

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:22 June 2026
Post last modified:23 June 2026

Al-Jazeera cameraman, Ahmed Wishah, 25, is the latest journalist to be assassinated by the occupation. On 20 June an ‘Israeli’ airstrike targeted a residential building in Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza. Wishah and two other Palestinians were killed. Al-Jazeera journalist targeted Wishah, who was born in the refugee camp, often worked with his brother, correspondent Mohammed Wishah. But two months before Ahmed was martyred, ‘Israel’ also killed Mohammed, by a deliberate targeted double tap strike on his car. Both men worked for the same media outlet Ahmed Wishah has been remembered by his colleagues as “kind and principled”. He cared for…