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I apologise, says Musharraf

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President Pervez Musharraf on Friday condemned the attack on the offices of Geo TV, The News and Jang in Islamabad and apologised for the incident.
"I want to tell the nation that the sense of our reforms include freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of the media," President Musharraf said on Geo television following the shocking attack on the Geo TV/The News offices by the police in a fit of anger to gag the media.
The president said: "We support freedom of journalism and want its supremacy." He said the incident should have not happened and termed it a conspiracy to sabotage the whole process. He said our mandate is to uphold human rights and "we condemn its violation".
Musharraf also said that those involved in the incident would be taken to task today. Meanwhile, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani termed the incident "highly condemnable".
"The culprits would be taken to task, and a probe has already been initiated under the directives of President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz," he said. "It's highly condemnable and deplorable act," said the minister who visited Geo TV/The News offices after the incident.
He said it was personally shocking for him as he was deeply hurt by this unfortunate incident and would not sit idle until the culprits were brought to justice. "The government would make the culprits an example so that nobody even think of doing so in the future," he said. "This incident has been carried out by some forces who aim at derailment of the steps taken by President Musharraf for freedom and development of the media in Pakistan," he added.
He said the government would compensate the damages caused to the bureau office of Geo TV, The News and Jang and bring to book those responsible for the attack. "Freedom of the press is the responsibility of everyone and all measures would be taken to avoid recurrence of such incidents in the future as freedom of the press ultimately strengthens the country," he added.
"The Ministry of Information would hold a joint investigation in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior into the incident," he added. He said, "The video footage of storming the offices will be obtained aiming to pinpoint the real culprits." Responding to a question, Durrani said the entire police contingents in Islamabad were under the command of the Islamabad Capital Police.


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