A Hindu reporter in Pakistan’s state-run news agency on Friday claimed he is being pressurised to retract his allegations that he was barred from drinking water in the same glass and sharing utensils with other Muslim staff at the office after his colleagues found out his religion.
Sahib Khan, a senior reporter with Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) in Karachi, had alleged that his bureau chief had asked him to “use separate utensils to eat and drink in the office because some colleagues had reservations.”
But after the issue was brought to limelight through media reports and led to backlash and demands that the action should be taken against those involved in discrimination against him, his boss started pressuring him into falsifying such reports, Sahib claimed.
“On Wednesday, he (the bureau chief) made me sit in his office for over four hours, pressurising me into falsifying media reports on the incident,” he was quoted as saying by the Dawn. “He wants me to say that all such reports circulating in the media are lies. He even said ‘if you can take extreme measures, so can we’,” Sahib alleged.