Key Points
The trial ended in a few minutes: Four lashes would fall on the body of Khawar Naeem Hashmi, accused of defacing the mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah on Pakistans independence day in 1977..
Lines were drawn on their backs to ensure the whip would fall with precision; army officers, Hashmi later recalled, would amuse their families by bringing them along to watch...
A hundred thousand people gathered in a Karachi park to watch the punishment of Mohammed Kaleem, convicted of raping a child.. Earlier this week, newspaperowners and editors were called into meetings with Pakistans military brass and ordered to cease covering establishment darling-turned-insurrectionary Imran Khan..
The three mass-circulation newspapers run by former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhuttos family Musawat,Hilal-i-Pakistan, andNusrat also ended up in the hands of the State-owned National Press Trust...
FormerPrime Minister Benazir Bhutto did initiate an opening-up of media freedoms in the democratic revival that followed,buteditor Imran Aslamrecorded that her government routinely sought to buy off critical journalists..
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