The Islamabad Police has allegedly started implicating the reputed personalities of the society including lawyers and journalists in fake cases out of personal vendetta in the garb of ongoing drive against the terrorist.
Strangely, the names of even those reputed journalists are included in the list of the so-called ‘terrorists who are professional reporters and are well known to the community. In one such instance, Syed Tabassum Abbas Shah, a senior journalist who has worked at senior positions in several media organisations, has become the fresh victim of police’s wrath.
The Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) has expressed its serious reservations over the false implication of Shah in schedule four in police record on personal grudge and demanded of the Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to take the culprits to task.
In a written letter to the deputy commissioner Islamabad, the PCP registrar wrote that a senior journalist was implicated in schedule four in the name of national security without any evidence and Islamabad Police failed to given any substantiation the involvement of the senior journalist with any banned organisation.
A similar letter has been written by the president and the chief coordinator Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) to the chief commissioner Islamabad to end the exploitation of the reputed journalist.
They have demanded action against those who falsely implicate journalist out of personal vendetta. He said that a particular journalist wrongly accused of schedule four however still police not given any evidence. He had also declared that while it is important to have a code of conduct, it would be wrong to clamp down on the media persons without any solid evidence.
They also showed reservations over the accusation that a senior journalist Syed Tabbasum Abbas Shah was wrongly accused of the member of a banned organisation and that this act is beyond the limitations of the Islamabad Police.
It is also noted that Islamabad High Court taking the serious notice of the senior lawyer implication in schedule four ordered to Islamabad Police to prove the lawyer association with banned organisation however police failed to provide any evidence and later on police put-off the name of lawyer subsequent to apologizing the court.
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