Pakistan Suspends Media Restrictions
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 7 -- Under mounting domestic and international pressure, the Pakistani government on Thursday suspended stringent media restrictions that critics said were designed to muzzle the free press.
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Pakistan's President Musharraf signs into immediate effect measures to  increase control over the media.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court today reinstated the country's suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry after ruling his suspension by President Pervez Musharraf was illegal, according to court officials. Chaudhry's dismissal sparked demonstrations by the country's attorneys.
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Pakistani authorities are considering  banning political processions in the run-up to a general  election after a bomb attack on former prime minister Benazir  Bhutto killed 139 people.
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Pakistan on Wednesday postponed general elections until February 18 following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a move grudgingly accepted by the country's major parties.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf cast  himself as a champion of human rights and free expression on  Friday -- then turned on a journalist who questioned him and  said rights should have limits.
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Pakistan has shrugged off concerns expressed by the European Union about President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s curbs on the media amid a tense political crisis.
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Kazakhstan has blocked access to a number of opposition Web sites in a move Internet users condemned on Wednesday as a crackdown on freedom of speech.
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The government of Pakistan yesterday moved to ban all religious gatherings, except those at mosques, after bombs planted in a car and on a motorcycle exploded at a rally commemorating the death of an assassinated Sunni Muslim radical, killing at least 40
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The Pakistani government has barred journalists from certain areas of its Parliament House, as part of a move to limit the media.
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Â· Pakistan Intelligence officials take up positions at airport Â· Political rallies banned and hundreds arrested
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The authorities announced a nationwide ban on all political and religious meetings except Friday Prayers after a car bombing early Thursday in the central city of Multan killed 40 people and wounded at least 100.
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Pakistan ends sanctions against South Waziristan in a bid to win support for its hunt for militants.
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A media watchdog said Pakistan had expelled a reporter for the New York Times Magazine who interviewed Taliban leaders and visited Baluchistan province on the Afghan border but the government denied he was deported.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has touted Pakistan's independent media as a major accomplishment of his years in power, but journalists say recent restrictions on coverage of a political crisis are a sign that government tolerance has its limits.
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Text of report by Somali independent Shabeelle Media Network website on 20 February  Shabelle Media Network is deeply shocked and dismayed at the restrictions and threats directed at the freedom of local media by the transitional federal government of Somalia.
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Foreign entertainment channels have been pulled from the air in Jammu and Kashmir, India, following threats from militant groups.