PAKISTAN’S journalists have seldom lacked organisations speaking in defence of press freedom. What has been missing is a sustained, united response when reporters are threatened, silenced or prosecuted. The alliance proposed at an Islamabad roundtable offers a chance to address that weakness. Its six-member committee plans to document restrictions on expression and draw up a charter of demands after consulting stakeholders. Both tasks are necessary, but the committee must go beyond issuing statements whenever another........

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