Police raid newspaper office
KARACHI (November 06 2007): Police on Monday raided a printing press belonging to Pakistan’s biggest-selling newspaper group amid tough curbs on the media imposed under the state of emergency, officials said. They stormed the Karachi premises of Awam, a sister publication of Jang group.
Following reports it was bringing out a special supplement on the emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf at the weekend, they said. “It is an attack on the freedom of the media. They came here and threatened to close our press. It is beyond the law,” the editor of the evening newspaper, Nazir Leghari, told AFP.
“We sometimes print special supplements and in the afternoon police raided our printing press. They said we cannot publish supplements but it was already printed and sold in the market,” he added.
Leghari said the paper put out a supplement to keep people informed in the wake of the government’s shutdown of all private television news channels. A government official in Karachi said that under emergency rules, the evening newspaper is not supposed to publish any special supplements, and police were sent to check that the restriction had not been violated.
Musharraf imposed stringent curbs on the media after declaring the emergency on Saturday, including a ban on defaming or ridiculing the government, and on pictures of suicide bombings.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:11/6/2007
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