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Article: Surge in news censorship condemned as backward step.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Karachi, November 04, 2009 (PPI): The Paris-based international organization of journalists Reporters Sans Frontiers (Reporters Without Borders) has expressed extreme concern about two rulings clamping down on electronic media in Pakistan that represent a very serious backward step. Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has ordered some radio stations not to broadcast BBC Urdu-language news programmes, while Parliament is preparing to ratify drastic censorship dating from the era of General Pervez Musharraf, the organization said in a release on Wednesday. We thought that Pakistan had rid itself of the censorship impulse, but PEMRA and the political ...