Taha Siddiqui barely escaped Pakistan with his life after angering its powerful military with his journalism. Now his story has become a comic book
Taha Siddiqui was a journalist who was forced to flee Pakistan after incurring the wrath of the army with his writing. In France, he became a comic book author.
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He barely escaped Pakistan with his life after angering its powerful military with his journalism. Now his story has become a comic book.
Taha Siddiqui's therapist told him not to dwell on the attempted kidnapping he suffered five years ago, or he would never escape his trauma.
"Clearly, I didn't listen to her at all," said Siddiqui with a smile.
He was speaking to AFP in his Paris bar, The Dissident Club, which he opened in 2020 as a refuge for exiles like himself.
It shares its name with his new autobiographical comic book—co-authored with cartoonist Hubert Maury who was previously a French diplomat in Pakistan—which is released on Wednesday in France and soon in other languages.