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Lahore HC tells govt to disclose Sethi's whereabouts

The Lahore high court today ordered the provincial government to report where Friday Times editor Najam Sethi, who was taken from his home by police last weekend, is being held.

Sethi, the owner and editor of the English-language weekly, was taken from his home during the night on Saturday.

Today Sethi's wife Mohsin asked the court to locate and free her husband.

But the Punjab provincial advocate general Ashtar Ausaf Ali said he didn't know where Sethi was being held.

The Lahore high court justice Faqir Mohammed Kokar said he wanted a report from the government about the whereabouts of Sethi by Wednesday.

Today former prime minister Benazir Bhutto wrote a letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair complaining about the attacks on journalists in Pakistan.

''It is with great concern that I must again request your government's active and forthright intervention with the Nawaz Sharief regime of Pakistan to protect the freedom of our press,'' Bhutto said in her letter to Blair.

UNI

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