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“Pakistani journalists get bullet “warnings””
(AFP)

30 May 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “ISLAMABAD - Three Pakistani journalists working for international news organisations found bullets placed in their cars late Tuesday in what a local media group said was an attempt to intimidate them.

The Karachi Union of Journalists said an envelope containing a bullet was taped to the windscreen of one journalist, while envelopes — each with a bullet inside — were left inside the vehicles of the two others.

The action comes a week after a shadowy organisation with links to a party that supports military ruler President Pervez Musharraf issued a list of a dozen journalists, declaring them as “enemies”.

The Mohajir Rabita Council, which published the list, has ties to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the ruling party in the volatile southern port city. Neither group could immediately be reached for comment.

“We believe it is a very serious threat to working journalists,” Karachi Union of Journalists president Shahmim-ur Rehman said, without naming the journalists or the organisations involved.

“It is an attempt to muzzle the free media.... We have lodged a police report and we are demanding the government should arrest those behind the latest threat,” he added.

“If the government fails to do so we will be justified in believing that there is complicity of the government in the current campaign to harass journalists.”

Karachi police chief Azhar Farooqi confirmed that police had registered a case and told AFP that he had set up a special team to investigate the incident.”