Peer Viqar Ul Aslam, Srinagar based journalist working for Morocco World News threatened by unknown people.

On 31 July, in the wee hours of the morning, an unknown person called Peer ViqarUl Aslam via Skype. The unknown person hurled abuses and threatened him with dire consequences.

The Journalist said, “I am not sure, why I am being threatened but I am highly concerned about my safety after these threatening phone calls.”

Peer Viqar Ul Aslam has about 32,000 followers on his Facebook page and he keeps posting news stories and videos that receive millions of views and are widely shared by the people.

“If someone doesn’t like some content they can disagree but threatening and intimidating shows how difficult it is for the professional journalists to work here,” added Peer

Today again, Peer Viqar received a call from an unknown person inquiring about a video that has been viewed more than 4 lakh times and shared 3000 times.