Probe demanded: CPNE condemns raid on editor’s house

CPNE demands DG Rangers Sindh to order high-level investigation into the incident

KARACHI:

Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has expressed grief and concern over raid by Sindh Rangers at the house of senior CPNE member and resident editor of Daily Nawa-i-Waqt Saeed Khawar and condemned the action.

CPNE demanded from DG  Rangers Sindh to order high-level investigation into the incident, so that mechanism of operation being carried out by law enforcement agencies could be visualised.

Senior Vice President CPNE Ilyas Shakir while addressing an emergency meeting at central secretariat of CPNE passed a resolution which said the media had completely approved the operation in Karachi against crimes and terrorism; however blind raids, arrests and operations should not be allowed.

It was decided in the meeting that DG Rangers Sindh would be called on for investigation of the raid. A meeting would be called as well, in which all organisations representing journalists, lawyers, civil society and human rights activists would be invited.

Dr A Jabbar Khattak, Owais Aslam Ali, Nazeer Leghari, Hamid Hussain Abidi, Qazi Asad Abid, Tahir Najmi, Saeed Khawar, Aamir Mehmood, Abdul Khaliq Marshal, Mukhtar Aqil, Abdul Rehman Mangrio, Mushtaq Qureshi, Javaid Mehr Shamsi, Younis Mahr, Sher Mohammad Khawar, Salman Qureshi, Sajid Hasan, Zahida Abbasi, Durdana Shahab, Mubashir Mir, Arif Baloch, Mahmood Shaikh, Shabbir Ahmed, Qazi Imtiaz Alam, Rifaqat Ghulam Sarwar, Syed Kamran Rizvi, Syed Sajid Hasan, Usman Arab Sati, Syed Raza Shah, Mansoor Korai, Nasir Dad Baloch, Waheed Jamal, Mohammad Mujtuba, Muzaffar Ejaz, Syed Qaiser Mahmood and Mumtaz Ali Phulpoto attended the meeting.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20^th, 2015.