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Karachi 10 years ago
by
Saeed Mohiuddin,
Journalists concerned over harassment, abductions
Karachi, May 14, 1999:About 100 city senior journalists have
expressed their concern and anxiety on the continued harassment of
editors and journalists at the hands of the “unknown” agencies and
appealed to all democratic loving people to extend support to the
journalists in their struggle for freedom of the press.
In a statement, senior journalists stated that none of the
government agencies had so far taken up the responsibility of
carrying out the midnight raid on Najam Sethi’s residence. Instead a
mud slinging campaign against Najam Sethi in print and electronic
media was going on, they added. “The government has neither produced
Najam Sethi in the court nor had booked him under any specific
charge,” journalists said.
The journalists were of the view that Najam Sethi was targeted
because of his views on the national issues, he expressed in the
editorials of his weekly and articulated at the various forums in
Pakistan and outside where he got the opportunity.
The journalists stated that they really wonder how all this midnight
raids and abducting of a citizen was possible in Pakistan where
constitution, parliament and court were supposed to reign supreme.
For the last several months, the government had targeted the
national press, starting from daily Jang then came Rehmat Shah
Afridi, threats to Imtiaz Alam, M K Lodhi, Ejaz Haider and now its
Najam Sethi.
The News Thursday, May 14, 2009
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