PPP demands Govts’ apology over Memon’s warning to media

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has condemned the threat hurled by the caretaker Information Minister at the media and demanded apology from the regime for the insolent and threatening remarks. PPP Spokesperson and former Senator Farhatullah Babar in a statement said that the Caretaker Information Minister’s warning to the media echoes Pervez Musharraf’s warning in London last week to thrash journalists asking difficult questions and is condemned in the strongest possible terms said in a statement on Sunday.
“The image of the country was tarnished not by the media but by Pervez Musharraf when he sacked more than sixty judges, detained the Chief Justice and then went touring the world with dossier in hand that the Chief Judge was corrupt, he said. “When it is claimed before journalists in foreign countries that women in Pakistan got themselves raped for visas and dollars, who tarnished the image of the country - the media which reported it or the retired General who painted the nation black, he asked?
He said that the atmosphere for elections had already been polluted by the regime by erecting structures of rigging and the media deserved to be applauded, and not blackmailed, for exposing the structures. The PPP spokesperson said that massive polls manipulation was underway for producing a hung Parliament to secure Parliament’s endorsement for Musharraf’s illegal acts. The Caretaker Minister’s warning was aimed at preventing the media from exposing the rigging plan, he said.—Online