Fear and loathing? Local publisher blanks out NYT article slamming Pak Army

Mohammed Hanif's opinion piece savaged Islamabad's powerful military establishment

Clearly, speaking against the Pakistani army is dangerous when in Pakistan. An International New York Times opinion piece criticising the powerful military establishment of the country was censored by its local publisher on Friday, and replaced by a blank space.

The online version of the piece by Mohammed Hanif, a high-profile satirist and novelist whose critiques of Pakistani society regularly appear in the New York Times, was trending on Pakistani social media by Friday afternoon.

In the article, entitled "Pakistan's Triangle of Hate", he savaged the military for parading a former Pakistani Taliban spokesman before television cameras to claim that the militants