Crackdown On the Press: General Musharraf Shuts Down Two of Pakistan's Biggest Private Television News Channels
Negroponte also emphasized the importance of quote "reconciliation between the moderate political forces." This is an excerpt of Negroponte addressing a press conference at the US embassy in Islamabad on Saturday.
- John Negroponte
- Benazir Bhutto
Mazhar Abbas is the Deputy Director of ARY One World television. He is also the Secretary-General of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. He is a leading opponent of Musharraf's attempts to silence the press and has been a well-known champion of press freedom over the past 27 years. Abbas will be honored by the New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists Tuesday.
Pakistani journalist Mazhar Abbas joins me now in the firehouse studio in New York.
- Mazhar Abbas, Deputy Director of ARY One World Television that has just been shut down by General Musharraf. He is also the head of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and will be honored by the New York based Committee to Protect Journalists Tuesday.
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