Posted on 01/12/2016 3:04:09 AM PST by csvset
SLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday took notice of a "search operation" conducted by Rangers at the house of Salman Masood, who is the New York Times Pakistan correspondent living in Islamabad.
The interior minister ordered an inquiry into "how, why and on whose orders a raid was conducted at Salman Masood's house," read a statement issued from his ministry, adding that an explanation has been sought from police and relevant security agencies.
"Such operations and raids are not acceptable at any cost," said Nisar.
Earlier, Salman Masood had posted pictures on Twitter, showing several Rangers personnel at his home. According to Masood, the officials said they wanted to search the premises but had no warrants.
"A man in civvies, with them, says he's from 'intelligence' but not giving more identification. Insists on property search," wrote the NYT correspondent.
Masood later posted that police told him a "terrorist search operation" was under way.
In 2013, on the eve of the general election, New York Time's bureau chief in Pakistan, Declan Walsh, was expelled from the country by the government for indulging in "undesirable activities."
A two-sentence letter was delivered by police officers to Walsh's home in Islamabad, which, the Times quoted as saying: "It is informed that your visa is hereby canceled in view of your undesirable activities. You are therefore advised to leave the country within 72 hours."
The move to expel Walsh, who had been covering Pakistan for almost a decade and was respected for his work, was criticized by several sections, including Dawn.
Them too huh?
In his own words:
In 2001, I had been accepted to a college in New York for a master's degree in Social Sciences, and was waiting for my U.S. student visa. But on Sept.11, 2001, as I watched the news coverage of planes hitting the World Trade Center, I instantly had a premonition that my visa would be delayed.
Like thousands of other Pakistanis, my visa application was put on an indefinite hold. To bide my time, I started looking for a part-time job, and within a few weeks I was working in the Pakistan bureau of The New York Times.
Gee, hard to know who to root for in this.
Bin Laden was a “guest” of the Paki government living just outside the gates of their West Point like facility.
The NYT spends its time wallowing in filth and propping up the dregs of society as “great people”.
I say let them have each other.
Then finally, they came for the liberals. Where multiculturalism extremes will takes us some day.
Rangers Lead the Way. Woo hoo!
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