Airport official accused of extorting Australian journalist Dennis Freedman arrested.

KARACHI -- An airport immigration official accused of seeking a bribe from Australian journalist Dennis Freedman has been arrested after Prime Minister Imran Khan himself intervened took up the case. After departing Pakistan, where he had been covering the Pakistan Super League and experiencing the country, Freedman had uploaded a small video on social media from Melbourne, Australia describing his run-in with an unscrupulous immigration officer at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport. Describing the incident as 'the bad side of Pakistan', the...

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