To: Area51 who wrote (40845 ) 10/3/2001 10:19:55 PM From: Area51 Respond to Hi Ike,omaid.com On several occasions, the Pakistani religious movements have urged their supporters to attack journalists. In October 1996 members of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI, a fundamentalist party) raided the premises of the daily Ummat and burned copies of the newspaper containing articles criticising the Taliban. In December 1996, Fakhr Alam, correspondent of the newspaper The Muslim in Peshawar, was the target of a murder attempt. His attackers ransacked and then set fire to the daily offices. The Muslim had published a cartoon of the JUI leader dancing with both Afghan and Pakistani actresses. Fakhr Alam managed to identify one of the attackers as a leader of the JUI student wing, who was later arrested. Under pressure from the JUI, however, he was released after six days in custody. No-one was sentenced by the Pakistani courts in connection with the attempted murder. In September
