The Pakistan Supreme Court has asked 3 senior officials to appear before couet on Thursday to hear the government's version on the rising incidents of harassment of journalists. The three officials namely - the Interior Secretary, the Federal Investigation Agency's Director General and the Islamabad police inspector general, as per reports.
The court regretted that the FIA appeared to have overstepped its mandate and undermined the nation's confidence in the judiciary. The court issued the directives in response to a 4-page petition complaining that journalists in Pakistan were facing increasing acts of intimidation at the hands of security agencies.
The apex court took up the matter after Abdul Qayyum Siddiqui, a former President of the Press Association of the Supreme Court drew its attention to the rising incidents of harassment of journalists. According to the order, journalists were being harassed, attacked, intimidated, and shot at. "There are no consequences for the perpetrators and those who should be protecting journalists and ensuring freedom of the press are themselves involved."
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