Shaheen Sehbai
Shaheen Sehbai is a Pakistani-American journalist and the current Group Editor of daily English newspaper The News International.[1] Shaheen Sehbai resigned from The News International in March 2002 after receiving a memorandum from his publisher admonishing him for publication of libellous matter, alienating advertisers, and being generally inaccessible to senior government officials as well his own staff among other complaints; Mr. Sehbai defended himself saying that he was being persecuted for failing to support the Musharraf government.[2] In August 2002, the Committee to Protect Journalists sent a public letter to then-President Pervez Musharraf to draw his attention to alleged harassment of Shaheen Sehbai's family members living in Pakistan.[3]
In July 2010, Shaheen Sehbai filed a defamation notice against Azeem Daultana, a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, and two newspapers for publishing a column written by Azeem Daultana.[4] The notice complains that Mr. Daultana's column alleges that Shaheen Sehbai has taken a "revenge mission" against the present President Asif Ali Zardari due to Shaheen Sehbai's being denied an Ambassadorship, a claim that was originally made in a column by Aftab Iqbal column published in the Urdu daily newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt on December 29, 2008.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Information minister vs journalists". June 9, 2010. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=243847. Retrieved 2010-07-07.[dead link]
- ^ "Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged". Dawn. March 10, 2002. http://www.dawn.com/2002/03/10/fea.htm#2. Retrieved 2010-07-07.[dead link]
- ^ "Editor and family harassed by authorities". August 27, 2002. http://cpj.org/2002/08/editor-and-family-harassed-by-authorities.php. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
- ^ "PPP leader Azeem Daultana served defamation notice by Shaheen Sehbai". The News. July 5, 2010. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=248998. Retrieved 2010-07-07.[dead link]
- ^ "Shaheen Sehbai given enough rope to hang himself and the Jang Group...". http://letusbuildpakistan.blogspot.com/2008/12/shaheen-sehbai-given-enough-rope-to.html. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
