Lawmakers Seek To Lift Curbs On News Media

Team Infidel

Forum Spin Doctor
Washington Post
April 12, 2008
Pg. 11
Pakistan

Pakistan's new government introduced a bill Friday to lift curbs on the mass media, its first legislative move to loosen controls imposed by President Pervez Musharraf under a state of emergency.
Information Minister Sherry Rehman said 10 clauses will be repealed from the "black laws" imposed after Musharraf declared emergency rule on Nov. 3.
The changes would end the power of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority to seal a network's premises, seize equipment, revoke an operating license arbitrarily, issue crippling fines for violation of the industry code of conduct and curb live coverage.
 
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