AFTER JOURNALIST SPEAKS OUT EYES TURN TO GOVERNMENT
Umar Cheema
Officials at the U.S. Embassy said they interviewed Cheema this week  and sent a report of his account to the State Department. E-mails sent to the spokesmen for the ISI and the Pakistani army requesting comment were not answered.
 Cheema had won a Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship to train foreign journalists in 2007 and worked in The New York Times newsroom for six months at that time. He has worked at The News since 2007.
 In interviews  he said his car was stopped near his home in the capital by men with the words "no fear" inscribed on their clothes. Once he was blindfolded and driven to the safe house  he was handed over to another group of men who carried out the abuse  he said. After six hours  he was dumped on a road 100 miles from the capital  Islamabad.
 Cheema says he wrote more than 50 articles this year that questioned various aspects of the conduct of the military and the government  including corruption accusations against the president  Asif Ali Zardari.
 In his article  Cheema reported that two members of the Special Services Group  an elite commando squad  were being denied fair justice during the court-martial proceedings.
 In another article  Cheema wrote that the suspects in a major terrorist attack against a bus carrying ISI employees were acquitted because of the "mishandling" of the court case by the intelligence agency.
 While Cheema has chosen to publicize his case  he is not the only journalist or politician to come under the apparent harassment of the security services.
 Earlier this year  Cheema said he was called to a coffee shop in Islamabad by an ISI officer and warned to fall into line.
 At a journalists' seminar in Lahore  the editor of a weekly newspaper  Najam Sethi  said it was up to the ISI to declare who had attacked Cheema.
Officials at the U.S. Embassy said they interviewed [TGT] this week  and sent a report of [TGT] account to the State Department. E-mails sent to the spokesmen for the ISI and the Pakistani army requesting comment were not answered.
 [TGT] had won a Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship to train foreign journalists in 2007 and worked in The New York Times newsroom for six months at that time. [TGT] has worked at The News since 2007.
 In interviews  [TGT] said [TGT] car was stopped near [TGT] home in the capital by men with the words "no fear" inscribed on their clothes. Once [TGT] was blindfolded and driven to the safe house  [TGT] was handed over to another group of men who carried out the abuse  [TGT] said. After six hours  [TGT] was dumped on a road 100 miles from the capital  Islamabad.
 [TGT] says [TGT] wrote more than 50 articles this year that questioned various aspects of the conduct of the military and the government  including corruption accusations against the president  Asif Ali Zardari.
 In [TGT] article  [TGT] reported that two members of the Special Services Group  an elite commando squad  were being denied fair justice during the court-martial proceedings.
 In another article  [TGT] wrote that the suspects in a major terrorist attack against a bus carrying ISI employees were acquitted because of the "mishandling" of the court case by the intelligence agency.
 While [TGT] has chosen to publicize [TGT] case  [TGT] is not the only journalist or politician to come under the apparent harassment of the security services.
 Earlier this year  [TGT] said [TGT] was called to a coffee shop in Islamabad by an ISI officer and warned to fall into line.
 At a journalists' seminar in Lahore  the editor of a weekly newspaper  Najam Sethi  said it was up to the ISI to declare who had attacked [TGT].