Pakistan Press Foundation

(PPF/IFEX) – The Punjab government has cancelled the declaration, or publication licence, of the quarterly newsletter of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). The newsletter focuses on human rights violations as well other issues related to human rights, such as judgements in court cases, as well as the activities of the HRCP in areas […]

(PPF/IFEX) – On 17 May 1999, the Supreme Court ordered that the family of Najam Sethi, editor of “The Friday Times” in Lahore, be allowed to meet with him. **Updates IFEX alerts of 12 May, 10 May and 6 May 1999** A three-judge bench of the court ordered that the government attorney arrange Sethi’s meeting […]

(PPF/IFEX) – Armed assailants shot and injured Rana Sajid Iqbal, the editor of the daily “Nawai Sharrer”, in Sargodha (in the Punjab province) on 13 May 1999. Rana Sajid Iqbal was shot and injured by two bullets and received seven dagger wounds in an attack as he was returning home. His brother alleged that the […]

(PPF/IFEX) – Najam Sethi, chief editor of “The Friday Times”, Lahore, was beaten and arrested in the early hours of 7 May 1999 by personnel of the police and intelligence agencies. They stormed his house and barged into his bedroom to arrest him. **Updates IFEX alert of 6 May 1999; for background on other journalists […]

(PPF/IFEX) – On 5 May 1999, unidentified intruders burnt the car of Imtiaz Alam, a current affairs editor with “The News”, at his residence in Lahore. Alam had been receiving threats from unknown persons in recent months and guards were deployed outside his residence. The intruders moved the car from Alam’s garage onto the road […]

(PPF/IFEX) – Mehmood Ali Khan Lodhi, a journalist working for “The News” and the government controlled Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), was picked up by intelligence agents in Lahore and interrogated for two days before being released on the night of 3 May 1999. According to Lodhi, the interrogators wanted to know details of his […]

(PPF/IFEX) – A journalist from the town of Kamalia (a remote town in Punjab) was arrested and kept in the Jhang District jail by the district administration, under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law. Rana Amjad Husain, who works for a news agency, was arrested on 17 April 1999 in Kamalia under the order […]

(PPF/IFEX) – On 18 April 1999, Punjab Union of Press correspondents condemned the arrest and detention of journalists Shamsul Haq and Rana Jaffar Hussain by Muridke (a town in Punjab province) police. The journalists were detained under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law. They claimed that the cases registered against them were false. Local […]