Statement of CPNE President on Mir shakeel ur Rehman arrest.

KARACHI -- Arif Nizami President CPNE (Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors) expresses great concern that a senior and prominent member of the editors and publishers' fraternity, Mir Shakilur Rahman, Chief Executive Officer of the Geo/Jang Group was arrested in Lahore by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) at its premises where he appeared for the second time to answer the accountability watchdog's queries regarding a property that he purchased 34 years ago.

For the NAB to arrest Mr Rahman at this initial stage of the investigation is uncalled for and is another example of what the Islamabad High Court observed last week about NAB's practice of arresting individuals without enough proof only to...