Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is a prominent Pakistani media mogul—Founder, Chief Executive, and Editor-in-Chief of the Jang Media Group and the Geo TV network, both operating under the umbrella of Independent Media Corporation, Pakistan’s largest media conglomerate. In March 2020, Shakil-ur-Rahman was arrested by Pakistan’s anti-corruption agency over allegations involving a decades-old land transaction. He spent approximately eight months in detention before being granted bail by the Supreme Court in November 2020 and then in January 2022, an accountability court in Lahore acquitted him of all charges. The case was widely criticized by press freedom advocates as a politically motivated attack on independent media.