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Journalists Rally to Denounce Threats to Pakistani Newspaper

Associated Press

   ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -
   Pakistani journalists and rights activists have rallied in support of a
   leading newspaper in Islamabad and elsewhere, days after Islamists
   gathered at the newspaper, threatening staff and demanding its editor
   be hanged.
   At Thursday's rally, activists and journalists condemned this week's
   besieging of English-language newspaper Dawn's office in Islamabad.
   They criticized the anti-newspaper protesters who want editor Zaffar
   Abbas and publisher Hameed Haroon hanged for reporting that the London
   Bridge attacker was of "Pakistani origin.'"
   The Islamists' threats at their rally Tuesday outside Dawn's office
   were condemned by international media watchdogs and Pakistani
   journalists who say the protesters blocked the entrance to the building
   that houses the newspaper and its sister TV channel, Dawn TV.
   No arrests have been made so far.

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