Lawyers chant slogans during a protest against emergency rule, in Islamabad on Saturday. - ReutersISLAMABAD, (Reuters):
Pakistan has ordered three journalists from British broadsheet the Daily Telegraph out of the country for using "foul and abusive" language about the country's leadership, state television said yesterday.
The expulsions come a week after military ruler President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule, suspended the constitution and slapped a ban on any coverage deemed to humiliate him or his government.
"Three foreign journalists have been given 72 hours to leave the country," Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan said. "They were using foul and abusive language against Pakistan and Pakistan's leadership." He said he did not know which publication the journalists worked for.
