Free Press Means A Fair Election


	Free Press Means A Fair Election

Carl Lavin

2-17-2008 9:58 PM

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Carl Lavin says:

And press restrictions mean the voting in Pakistan takes place under a cloud of doubt.

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Pakistani media when M. Ziauddin, London correspondent for Dawn, one of 
Pakistan's most respected papers, asked him about the "escape" from Pakistani 
police custody a month earlier of alleged terrorist Rashid Rauf, who was facing 
extradition to the UK. Musharraf aggressively questioned Ziauddin's patriotism 
and Pakistani credentials. Later that evening, talking about the incident, 
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