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	Najam Sethi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Najam Sethi is a well-known Pakistani journalist, editor, and newsmedia personality.
		An aggressively independent journalist, Mr Sethi and his publications are often in trouble with Pakistani governments.
		Together, Najam and Jugnu have a son, Ali, and a daughter, Mira.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Najam_Sethi (213 words)

	CPJ Protests
		CPJ Disturbed by the Persecution of Najam Sethi in Pakistan
		Sethi was arrested at his home in Lahore on May 8, and detained for several weeks in the custody of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, the army's intelligence unit.
		Sethi, assuming that the man was with the FIA, complied with his request.
	www.cpj.org /protests/99ltrs/Pakistan23June99.html (543 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Pakistan press under siege
		Sethi was arrested twice earlier -- once for protesting against state mistreatment of the people of southwestern Baluchistan province in the 1970s and the second time for his critical writings during the last military regime (1977-88).
		Sethi's wife, Jugnoo, had filed a petition in the high court -- second highest court in the country, after the supreme court -- but to her dismay, the court dismissed her petition.
		Sethi's arrest was the fourth incident of journalist harassment in the past two weeks because of the BBC documentary.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17068 (1008 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Sethi was not in the custody of the federal investigating agency.
		Sethi, as a civilian, could not be arrested under the Army Act.
		Sethi’s arrest and detention are definitely related to his activities as editor of a newspaper, that is to say, with the exercise of his right to freedom of opinion and expression as guaranteed by article 19 of the Universal Declaration of
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/wgad/13-2000.html (1041 words)

	The World Today - Pakistani citizens get taste of democracy
		Najam Sethi, who is the editor of an independent news journal in Pakistan, has been telling me from his Lahore home that while President Musharaf can be commended for some significant achievements during his rule so far, he's making a big mistake in not delivering on his promise to hold free and fair elections.
		NAJAM SETHI: He thinks that he’s done a number of good things in the last three years, he wants to make sure there is continuity and he’s not prepared to allow, as he puts it, the fruits of his labour to go away, number one.
		NAJAM SETHI: Well you know, one of the things that’s happened is that first of all, after 50 years the fundamentalist religious have all got together under one banner, thanks to General Musharaf.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s698346.htm (1041 words)

	Press Freedom in Pakistan
		Najam Sethi, editor of the Lahore-based English newspaper The Daily Times, was thrown in jail under two earlier Pakistani regimes for his work as a journalist.
		NAJAM SETHI: Everywhere he goes, he flaunts this to the Western World -- "The press is free." And to a large extent, that is the case.
		NAJAM SETHI: We've been under a, a lid, and when they took the lid off, we were so angry that we started sort of, you know, shouting and screaming, and the rules of the game in terms of what you can say and what you can't say and why not are not entirely clear.
	aopp.org /pressfreedom.htm (1047 words)

	Najam Sethi barred from foreign travel
		Sethi was turned away from the Lahore airport this morning by the authorities who told him that his name has been put on the exit control list (ECL) by the government and his passport was also confiscated.
		Sethi, who was arrested on May 8 by Pakistani intelligence agencies in a pre-dawn raidat his residence for alleged anti-national activities, was released on June 2o after the authorities withdrew charges against him.
		Sethi however hoped today's incident might not be part of the government's tirade against him and said that there could be ``some misunderstanding somewhere'' since the army intelligence had returned his passport just two days ago.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990624/ige24011.html (368 words)

	Online NewsHour: Press Freedom Awards, Najam Sethi and Jugnu Mohsin -- November 23, 1999
		NAJAM SETHI: This government or, for that matter, any government, will not find it so easy to haul up journalists under forced charges of sedition just because they're doing their duty, and try intimidation.
		NAJAM SETHI: And me. And just before they arrested me, I had given a press conference warning them not to do anything as foolish as that, but nonetheless, they went ahead and did it.
		NAJAM SETHI: Well, I must tell you that it's ironical that we do have a military government involved and the press, which has seen very hard days recently, is quite relieved, and this is the irony of the situation.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/media/j_awards/sethi_11-23.html (2090 words)

	CPJ Protests
		Sethi is the third Pakistani journalist arrested under suspicious circumstances in less than a week, prompting fears that your government is engaged in a campaign to silence the country's independent press.
		Sethi said he had been warned by senior government officials that his recent work with the BBC is viewed by some members of the administration as an attempt to destabilize the country and overthrow the government, and that his arrest was imminent.
		Sethi is still being held incommunicado at an undisclosed location, though his wife says she was told by the Governor of Punjab Province that he has been moved to Islamabad.
	www.cpj.org /protests/99ltrs/Pakistan10May99.html (761 words)

	The Hindu : National : Media and the people of India and Pakistan should hold onto peace, says Najam Sethi
		Sethi suggested that changes could be made only in the domain of private sector media to undo the gridlock of generally hostile or false media perception on both sides.
		Sethi said he was hopeful that much confidence-building measures could be done via this powerful media, especially in a situation where the movement for peace had become a people's movement.
		Sethi admitted that the times were changing and for a host of reasons, new generations in both countries, especially the middle class were less obsessed about war and less burdened with the baggage of the Partition than their predecessors.
	www.hindu.com /2005/05/04/stories/2005050408901300.htm (828 words)

	BBC News \| South Asia \| Pakistan accuses US of meddling
		Najam Sethi, editor of the Friday Times, was taken away from his home by police at gunpoint on Saturday morning.
		It added that Mr Sethi was suspected of having connections with India's intelligence services and that he had made the speech at their behest to create despondency in the minds of Pakistanis.
		Najam Sethi's wife, who is also a journalist, has dismissed the idea that her husband's arrest has anything to do with his speech.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/342081.stm (439 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Sharief, Benazir 'Raped' Democracy: Najam Sethi
		Najam Sethi, editor of the Lahore-based The Friday Timeswho was jailed for holding independent views that flew in the face of nationalism, finds the current situation in his native Pakistan highly ironic.
		Sethi said he was relieved to note that the present military regime of General Pervez Musharraf had not suspended fundamental rights and that the press was "alive and kicking".
		Sethi made international news earlier this summer when he was dragged out of his house at midnight and detained for a month without charges, by agents of former prime minister Nawaz Sharief's government.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/nov/23us.htm (973 words)

	IMPORTANT: Some Letters To the Editor ----- The Friday Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Najam Sethi's maltreatment and arrest have come as a profound shock to me. Whatever one may think of his New Delhi speech, whether one approves or disapproves, freedom of expression must be guaranteed.
		Sethi's arrest is therefore a great embarrassment to friends of Pakistan in the UK, and sends a very bad signal concerning respect for the rule of law and of freedom of expression in Pakistan.
		Najam Sethi, is a fight for a sane, democratic society.
	lists.isb.sdnpk.org /pipermail/cyberclub-old/1999-May/000454.html (1404 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Wife moves court for Najam Sethi's release
		Jugnoo Mohsin, the wife of journalist Najam Sethi who is held by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency today petitioned the Supreme Court for his release on bail, a court official said.
		Sethi was picked up from his Lahore residence by the authorities in a midnight swoop.
		Sethi's arrest came in the wake of intimidation of several critical journalists and sparked protests at home and abroad.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/may/27naj.htm (491 words)

	Pakistan: Change of tack since 11 September
		Sethi, editor of The Friday Times, a respected and popular weekly, said the events of 11 September had forced Pakistan to review its policy on Afghanistan, and this has led to the stemming of the rising tide of religious extremism in the country.
		Sethi cited manifestations of the new trend were an increase in foreign aid to Pakistan and the reshaping and rescheduling of its debt and development loans from its bilateral and multilateral donors.
		Sethi said he saw the Paris Club deal - the latest in a string of international concessions to help Pakistan's ailing economy - as a means of achieving a GDP of more than five percent in the coming years.
	www.websitesrcg.com /afghanistan/pakistan/pakistan-01.htm (2066 words)

	Guardian \| Detained editor denied hearing
		The court in Lahore ruled that because Najam Sethi, editor of the independent Friday Times, was being held by the military intelligence agency, Isi, it had no power to force the authorities to hand him over.
		Mr Sethi's arrest at his home in Lahore at the weekend is the latest in a wave of attacks on journalists critical of the government.
		The government said the detention was justified by allegations Mr Sethi was involved in 'anti-state activities' and had 'ridiculed the very foundations and the ideology of the country'.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3864418-103681,00.html (553 words)

	DAWN - Cowasjee Corner; 16 May, 1999
		Najam was 'suspected' of having a 'nexus' with RAW, to prove which he had been taken into custody by the 'Agencies' and was being held and interrogated by the ISI.
		Before he goes to work today, Monday May 10, and moves his machinery, it might help if Sethi were to be released and a statement issued to the effect that the prime minister, having learnt of the unfortunate manner in which Sethi was apprehended, has intervened and ordered his release.
		The army is aware that Sethi was not picked up by the ISI and that he was put into ISI custody by the 'agencies' concerned for 'interrogation.' The question of Sethi being tried by the army under the Army Act has not arisen.
	www.dawn.com /weekly/cowas/990516.htm (1453 words)

	News Headings
		"This is a vindication for Najam Sethi and a vindication for the independent Pakistani Press," said his wife Jugnoo Mohsin.
		Mr Sethi was arrested on May 8 when the police stormed his home in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore after 2 a.m.
		Mr Sethi’s arrest was one of several incidents involving Pakistani journalists, who have been harassed, intimidated and detained by the government, some because they assisted a British Broadcasting Corp, television team, others because of their critical writing.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jun03/head2.htm (314 words)

	Najam Sethi's crime
		Sethi and his compatriot Maleeha Lodhi of The News, once Pakistan's ambassador in Washington, were a formidable combination, unsparing in their attacks on illiberalism, corruption and obscurantism but forthright in the defence of their country's foreign policy.
		Sethi seemed to have an obsession about theill-gotten money Pakistan's leaders have stashed away in foreign banks, even to the point of repeating the words "stashed away" over and over again.
		Sethi argued that if the huge unaccounted wealth "stashed away" could be brought back to the country, it could make a world of difference to cash-starved Pakistan.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990515/iex15054.html (615 words)

	Najam Sethi on Afghanistan
		See Sethi's bio and report on his 1999 visit with SAJA on the occasion of he and his wife winning an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
		Sethi is editor of the Friday Times, a weekly newspaper in Lahore.
		LAHORE, Pakistan -- In the aftermath of the air strikes launched against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, called for a rehabilitated Afghanistan with a new broad-based government whose formation should be "facilitated," not imposed, by the West.
	www.saja.org /sethioped.html (1286 words)

	PPF - Research and Documentation Details
		Sethi, had to bear the full force of government’s anger for his role in organising the visit and for being interviewed for the programme.
		Sethi said he had received numerous threatening phone calls he feared that his house and office would be attacked and he would be arrested.
		In May, during government’s confrontation with Najam Sethi, copies of the London-based weekly The Economist were seized because it had an article criticising government’s assaults on the on press.
	www.pakistanpressfoundation.org /userRAndDDetails.asp?uid=210 (4375 words)

	update10c (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Advocate for Sethi, submitted that the ISI does not function under the Army Act and can be headed by a retired officer and that the ISI reported to the prime minister and not to the army.
		Sethi, in his lecture said that Pakistan was afflicted with several crises, a law and order and political and system crisis, an economic crisis, a foreign policy and national security crisis and a civic society crisis.
		Sethi, who had written a sharp editorial commenting on a High Court judgment in London against Nawaz Sharif's father and two brothers in March 1999, ordering them to repay $32.5 million in loans taken out from a Saudi finance house for a paper mill owned by the family.
	ghazali.net /book1/Chapter10a/update10c.html (6537 words)

	[sacw] sacw dispatch (0ct. 7, 1999)
		It sought to disqualify Sethi, w= ho is the founding editor of the Lahore-based English weekly The Friday Times, from voting or running for office by requesting that his name be struck from vote= rs' lists if he "does not fulfill the requirements of a Muslim," as defined in Article 260-3 of Pakistan's constitution.
		Sethi was arrested at his home in Lahore on May 8, and was detained for nearly a month in the custody of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, the army's intelligence unit.
		Sethi and his family have also been fighting more than two dozen cases of ta= x evasion, all of which appear to be politically motivated.
	www.insaf.net /pipermail/sacw_insaf.net/1999/000193.html (2604 words)

	Asia Times: Freedom for Sethi, but media's war goes on
		LAHORE - Najam Sethi, a prominent Pakistaninewspaper editor who was in police custody for 25 days for makingan anti-state speech in India, was set free last week, but otherjournalists remain in jail.
		Treason charges against Sethi, editor of The Friday Times,were quashed by the Supreme Court on June 2, and Justice MamoonQazi, a member of the three-judge bench, said the governmentcannot proceed against him on the same charges.
		The authorities said Sethi was taken into custody for hisDelhi speech of April 30, in which he saidPakistan was in the throes of multiple crises, including abreakdown of law and order, national security and identity.
	www.atimes.com /media/AF09Ce01.html (688 words)

	Stop Persecution of Najam Sethi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meanwhile, Sethi and his family are fighting more than two dozen of cases of tax evasion, all of which appear to be politically motivated.
		Sethi's persecution began on May 8 when he was arrested at his home in Lahore and detained for nearly a month in the custody of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, the army's intelligence unit.
		CPJ believes that Sethi was arrested because his newspaper has often called on your government to answer allegations of high-level corruption, and because he had recently assisted a BBC television team investigating these same allegations.
	lists.isb.sdnpk.org /pipermail/cyberclub-old/1999-July/000664.html (663 words)

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		He was persecuted by former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and was imprisoned by him, a case that evoked an international outcry that pressured Sharif's government to release him.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Najam_Sethi.html (116 words)

	Daily Excelsior... World
		Significantly Haqqani, like Sethi, was arrested in the wake of controversy surrounding a film being made by the BBC on the alleged corruption by Sharif family and in which both Sethi and Haqqani were interviewed.
		She was allowed to meet Sethi, who was arrested on May 8 for his anti-Pakistan remarks during a seminar in New Delhi, after the Apex Court ordered the Government to do so.
		The Lahore High Court had earlier dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by Sethi’s wife ruling that the case was beyond the competence of the civilian courts.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /99may20/inter.htm (2067 words)

	DAWN - Cowasjee Corner; 30 March, 2003
		At 0230 hours on the morning of May 9, 1999, eleven armed men (two in police uniforms) invaded Sethi's Lahore house, broke the windows of the bedroom in which Najam and his wife were sleeping, entered, held Jugnu at gunpoint and proceeded to beat up Najam with the butts of their guns.
		Najam was moved from the Lahore safe house to a Rawalpindi safe house and at no stage was he mistreated.
		Knowing that Najam's freedom was not something to be granted to her as a favour from the prime minister and his Hussain-Rehman henchmen, but that freedom was his fundamental right, Jugnu did the right thing and went to the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
	www.dawn.com /weekly/cowas/20030330.htm (958 words)

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