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And what do you think about your own Media (the part which is neutral).
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ISI ordered killing of Pak journalist: US officials
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Pakistan Slams U.S. Allegation Over Slain Journalist
ISLAMABAD — The allegation by the top U.S. military officer that Pakistan's government sanctioned the killing of a journalist who wrote about the country's powerful security establishment was "extremely irresponsible," the Pakistani state-run news agency said.
The verbal sparring over the death of Saleem Shahzad has added even more strain to U.S.-Pakistani relations, which have teetered badly since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2 in a northwest Pakistani army town.
Shahzad's tortured body was found in late May after he'd told friends he'd been threatened by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, a spy unit that is notorious for harassing reporters in a country considered one of the deadliest in the world for journalists.
The ISI has denied it had anything to do with killing Shahzad, but the suspicions have persisted and prompted unusual levels of public criticism of the spy agency. Shahzad's death also added to the pressure on the Pakistani military since the unilateral U.S. raid against the al-Qaida chief, which left it humiliated.
On Thursday, U.S. joint chiefs of staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said he believed the Pakistani government "sanctioned" Shahzad's killing. Although Mullen acknowledged he could not directly tie the killing to the ISI, he was the first U.S. official to make such a public allegation.
Mullen further said that the reported abuse of other journalists in Pakistan is not a good road for the government in Islamabad.
"It's a way to continue to, quite frankly, spiral in the wrong direction," said Mullen, who has devoted enormous time in the last four years to trying to improve relations with Pakistani leaders.
The state-run Associated Press of Pakistan issued a statement hours later in which an unnamed government spokesman called Mullen's allegations "extremely irresponsible" and said that it "will not help in investigating the issue."
The news agency, which acts as a government mouthpiece, often does not name the officials it quotes in reports.
ISLAMABAD — The allegation by the top U.S. military officer that Pakistan's government sanctioned the killing of a journalist who wrote about the country's powerful security establishment was "extremely irresponsible," the Pakistani state-run news agency said.
The verbal sparring over the death of Saleem Shahzad has added even more strain to U.S.-Pakistani relations, which have teetered badly since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2 in a northwest Pakistani army town.
Shahzad's tortured body was found in late May after he'd told friends he'd been threatened by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, a spy unit that is notorious for harassing reporters in a country considered one of the deadliest in the world for journalists.
The ISI has denied it had anything to do with killing Shahzad, but the suspicions have persisted and prompted unusual levels of public criticism of the spy agency. Shahzad's death also added to the pressure on the Pakistani military since the unilateral U.S. raid against the al-Qaida chief, which left it humiliated.
On Thursday, U.S. joint chiefs of staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said he believed the Pakistani government "sanctioned" Shahzad's killing. Although Mullen acknowledged he could not directly tie the killing to the ISI, he was the first U.S. official to make such a public allegation.
Mullen further said that the reported abuse of other journalists in Pakistan is not a good road for the government in Islamabad.
"It's a way to continue to, quite frankly, spiral in the wrong direction," said Mullen, who has devoted enormous time in the last four years to trying to improve relations with Pakistani leaders.
The state-run Associated Press of Pakistan issued a statement hours later in which an unnamed government spokesman called Mullen's allegations "extremely irresponsible" and said that it "will not help in investigating the issue."
The news agency, which acts as a government mouthpiece, often does not name the officials it quotes in reports.
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Sethi's questions grew more pointed after the corpse of fellow journalist Saleem Shahzad was discovered on May 31, three days after Shahzad mysteriously disappeared. Suspicions immediately fell on the ISI. As first reported on TIME.com, Shahzad told human-rights campaigners that he had earlier been threatened by the ISI. "This isn't al-Qaeda's style," Sethi told his viewers, adding that terrorists are keen to publicize the killings they author.
Journalists in Pakistan Under Threat from ISI - TIME
A Pakistani Writer Murdered, And Plenty Of Questions : NPR
Journalists in Pakistan Under Threat from ISI - TIME
A Pakistani Writer Murdered, And Plenty Of Questions : NPR
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Kayani's man ordered Pak journo's killing: Report
NEW YORK: The order to kill Pakistani investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad came from a senior officer on Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's staff, The New Yorker magazine said in its latest issue.
"In fact, according to the American official, reliable intelligence indicates that the order to kill Shahzad came from a senior officer on General Kayani's staff.
"The officer made it clear that he was speaking on behalf of Kayani himself," the extensive report on the journalist's killing, that shocked the media fraternity across the world, said.
However, General Athar Abbas, the spokesman for the Pakistani Army, called this allegation "preposterous".
The report said the presence of Islamists in the Navy, and at Mehran Naval base, that was attacked by militants, was not a secret among Pakistanis.
But Shahzad's article was particularly "incendiary". Not only did he report that sailors at the base had helped the attackers; he wrote that the Navy's leadership was bargaining directly with al-Qaeda, the report said.
"Consider the time when Saleem's piece came out. The military felt humiliated. It felt backed into a corner," the report quoted an unnamed American official as saying who added, "When you're backed into a corner like that, you strike back."
Shahzad was a Pakistani journalist working for a portal 'Asia Times Online' when he went missing on May 29, soon after writing a report on the May 22 Mehran naval station terror attack that had destroyed two US made P3C Orion maritime surveillance aircraft and killed 10.
