Dictators never wanted free media

He said that if the draft of the bill would have been prepared by the experts so it would be accepted by all the people, but it was prepared by non-qualified people, who had never been associated with such jobs in the past.

He criticised over the law department and alleged that non-qualified people have been running the affairs of the department, who do not have knowledge to look after the concern affairs.

Haider said that the media had been restricted since the day first and several bans had been imposed on the media for not publishing several important stories. He added that there were no proper rules to look after the media affairs in the country. “If the government does not want any information regarding defence affairs to be published then it should introduce some rules for not publishing such matters but not stopping the media by force.”