Islamabad: The Military Intelligence (MI) has started a country wide exercise to collect all sorts of information from Journalists, a report said on Wednesday.
Their personnel’s are providing a two-page form in Urdu language to all the journalists and media representatives in the country in which they are obliged to fill all the necessary information about themselves.
We saw names of nearly a hundred well known media personalities, including women journalists who live on their own and even included one columnist who is a sitting member of Parliament, Pakistan’s leading English daily, The News reports.
The journalists and columnist stationed in Rawalpindi come under 10 Corps, the paper quoted the MI officials as saying. A two-member committee is assigned to gather all personal details of the journalist, the paper added.
The News says the committee has also visited four other journalists presently working with the paper.
“As a working journalist, the Constitution and the laws of the land do not oblige me to provide the Military Intelligence with such personal and intimate information,” the paper’s correspondent Mariana Baabar wrote at the end of the questionnaire after reading dozens of questions which had to be answered.
“I do not think the DG MI has even read this questionnaire, which is certainly not a very professional one. But if I were in his place I would certainly take responsibility for this ridiculous procedure. I am certainly not very happy and there are much better ways to acquire information, as I can understand the security concerns that have to be taken care of but certainly not from people like you,” General Asad Durrani, former DG MI and ISI told the paper.
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