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Concern over expulsion of newsman

Pakistan Press Foundation

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB) has expressed concerns over the failure of the interior ministry to seek its endorsement while issuing visas to foreign journalists, granting extensions to them and cancelling them. The MoIB has taken up the issue with the interior ministry in the wake of expulsion of Declan Walsh, the […]


Old habits die hard: NYT journalist expelled

Pakistan Press Foundation

IT seems that the mindset that drives segments of the establishment has not changed from the time that media censorship was in vogue in Pakistan. It is also apparent that some powerful elements did not like what Declan Walsh, Islamabad bureau chief of the New York Times, was writing. Mr Walsh, who was on Thursday […]


NYT bureau chief expelled

Pakistan Press Foundation

ISLAMABAD: The government ordered the bureau chief of New York Times in Islamabad to leave the country on the eve of general elections for ‘indulging in undesirable activities’, the newspaper said on Friday. A two-sentence letter was delivered by police officers to the home of the bureau chief, Declan Walsh, at 12.30am on Thursday, it […]