Sex slavery: Pak army threatens newspapers

Pakistan army has threatened newspapers their advertisments would be stopped if journalists on their staff won't stop writing about missing Baluch schoolteacher Zarina Marri, 23.

Major General Athar Abbas, director-general of the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), a public relations arm of the armed forces of Pakistan, denied the allegations that Marri was captive in a military torture cell and being used as a sex slave and comfort women.

Using traditional military jargon, Abbas said anti-state elements were engaged in a malicious campaign to harm the reputation of the army --the fourth largest in the world and armed with nuclear weapons -- to fulfil their nefarious designs.

The best rebuttal to the army's contradiction came from the general's brother Mazhar Abbas, general secretary of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, who said in an interview with Sweden based Radio Gwank that such barbaric military atrocities are common in Pakistan.

[Please listen to interview: An Interwiv with Mazhar Abbas
TV journalist about Asian Human
Rights Commission's Report]

Major General Abbas's real uncle, Professor Jamal Naqvi, was himself tortured by the Pakistan army during the regime of military dictator General Ziaul Haq.

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