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Article: Free again, Pakistani media promises to be vigilant
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- April 14, 2008
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Karachi, April 14 -- Veteran Pakistani journalists have welcomed moves to lift restrictions on the media imposed by President Pervez Musharraf but say they will be watchful of the new government as well.
"It's a very welcome step towards strengthening freedom of expression," Nusrat Javeed, a senior Islamabad journalist, referring to the introduction of a bill in parliament to ease the media clamp down, told IANS.
Javeed, who was among the six popular anchors barred from hosting current affairs programmes on private television channels for over three months, felt this was "a recognition of the power that media wields and ...