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Playing with people’s emotions

'Every time the western media decides what to air, and who to call a terrorist, they generate a lot of debate in our country.' A leading Pakistani digital rights activist on the politics of counter-terror and surveillance.

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Protest against suicide bomb blast at a Karachi mosque.
Protest against suicide bomb blast at a Karachi mosque.

Protest against suicide bomb blast at a Karachi mosque, January 2015. Demotix/ ppiimages. All rights reserved.

Mary Fitzgerald: First of all, tell me how you came to be at the World Forum for Democracy? What is the work you do and why do you do it?