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| Musharraf has granted some press freedom | | But Pakistani media is in a state of crisis | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI: The state of press freedom in Pakistan is being discussed even outside Pakistan. According to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the state of press freedom in Pakistan is rapidly skidding towards lawlessness and entering a state of crisis. The IFJ represents more than half a million journalists in over 115 countries.
Pakistan has, during the last six months or so, seen four journalists killed. Each of the four cases remains unsolved. The younger brothers of two journalists were brutally murdered, as if to teach the older brothers a lesson. In addition, four journalists were reportedly detained and "tortured" by intelligence agencies. The latest victim of what Amnesty International calls "enforced disappearances" is Dilawar Khan Wazir, a BBC Urdu service reporter in Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan. He has not been heard of since leaving Islamabad for home on the morning of November 20.
Mohammad Esmail, Maqbool Hussain Sail, Hayatullah Khan and Munir Ahmad Sangi were killed after filing stories the government did not wa... | |
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| Beleaguered Assam faces serious threat | | Pak ISI and Bangladesh's DGFI for anti-India stir | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI Nov 23
It is official: "Sleeper agents" of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are active in parts of the troubled State of Assam. These agents exist among the large sections of the migrated population in the State. Worse still, external forces are playing a role in helping the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
Official inputs available with the Ministries of Defence and Home Affairs reveal that the ISI continues to back the ULFA. For this, the ISI has enlisted cooperation of the Director General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) in Bangladesh. Lt. Gen. RK Chhabra, GOC-in-C of the Indian Army's 4 Corps, has just placed himself on record, sayi... | |
| | | | Cheaper MIG trainers complicate matters | | IAF pilots are given old, second hand planes | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV. 23: Indian defence authorities have come under a fierce attack for having made available old, second hand planes for the IAF pilots. The Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Ministry of Defence have been accused of quoting cheaper rates, and not the standards of airworthines, while purchasing jet aircraft.
In doing so, the defence authorities, according to experts, are reducing the Air Force to the level of a petty housewife, buying slightly spoilt potatoes because they are cheaper than the fresh variety. In the housewife's case her family is not placed at risk by consuming inferior potatoes. In the case of the IAF, the nation, these experts point out, is placed... | |
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