At least two individuals attacked Jawaad Faizi, a columnist for the New York-based Urdu-language biweekly Pakistan Post, as he was driving to a colleague's home in Toronto on the evening of April 19. Faizi told local reporters that the assailants struck his car with cricket bats and smashed his windshield while screaming at him in Urdu and Punjabi to stop writing about the Muslim group Idara Minhaj-ul-Quran. Faizi had received repeated telephone threats prior to the attack, Muhammed Faruki, New York editor of the Pakistan Post, told CPJ.

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