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CPJ demands media freedom

KARACHI(PPI).The New York based international organisation of journalists Committee to Protect journalists urged the government of President Pervez Musharraf to withdraw the severe restrictions it has placed on Pakistan’s news media and allow independent television and radio stations to resume coverage of the country’s political crisis.

“President Musharraf’s drastic steps to silence news coverage make a mockery of his often repeated claims to have fostered free and open media, said Joel Simon, CPJ’s executive director.
Source: The Nation
Date:11/6/2007