Media Bias and Selective Grief: The Disparate Coverage of Maulana Khanzeb and Humaira Asghar’s Deaths in Pakistan
In the rugged hills of Bajaur, Maulana Khanzeb fell, his blood staining the earth he fought to pacify. A Pashtun leader, his voice for peace was silenced by assassins’ bullets, yet the nation’s airwaves barely whispered his name. In Karachi, Humaira Asghar’s lifeless body was found in her flat, her showbiz glamour casting a long shadow over the news. For weeks, her story consumed prime time, her face a fixture on screens, while Khanzeb’s sacrifice faded into obscurity. The Pashtun heart aches, not just for their fallen hero, but for a media that mourns one tragedy and ignores another, exposing a divide as deep as the valleys of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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