Jang’s December 14 publication of articles about a financial scandal involving your family’s Ittefaq Group of Companies, reports of which have been featured in London’s Observer newspaper, was followed by a raid on Jang’s Rawalpindi bureau by officers from Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency. The Jang group, Pakistan’s largest newspaper company, publishes two of the country’s most widely-read papers: the daily Urdu-language Jang newspaper and The News, an English-language daily. Since August, CPJ has received numerous reports indicating that the government has embarked upon a systematic campaign to harass and intimidate the Jang Group of Newspapers for publishing articles unflattering to the administration. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is greatly alarmed by the government’s recent efforts to control the independent media in Pakistan.
