Staff Reporter ,Daily Dawn, Dawn TV Report
Islamabad: Federal Interior Ministry officials, while briefing the Standing Committee of the Ministry of Information, have informed that 9 journalists and 689 civilians have been registered under PECA.
Officials told the committee that cases were registered against Adil Raja and Imran Riaz in Rawalpindi for taking a stand against the state, a case was registered against Shahzad Rafique in Gujranwala on the request of a citizen, and a citizen had applied for defamation on social media.
Cases were registered against Ahmed Noorani, Sabir Shakir, Moeed Pirzada, and Muhammad Waheed from Islamabad for spreading an anti-state narrative, and action was also taken against Farhan Malik in Karachi, who is still on bail.
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