July 4, 1995 | John Ward Anderson | Copyright
July 4, 1995 | John Ward Anderson | Copyright
July 4, 1995 | John Ward Anderson | Copyright
It was after midnight when newspaper reporter Bux Ali Jamali was jarred awake by police, dragged out of his house and taken to a local hospital. There, corrupt doctors certified that he was drunk -- a serious crime in this Islamic state -- and police imprisoned him for nine days without bail.
That is the version of events related by Jamali, who said his real offense was writing tough stories about local development that enraged high government officials -- including, he and others say, the family of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The police account is that Jamali was on his way home when an alert officer noticed that he obviously had been drinking. After confirming this …
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