Pakistani Security Seeks to Tamp Down Reporting on California Shooter
7th December 2015
Three professors at Malik’s university said they had been advised not to talk to the media, while men claiming to be from Pakistan’s security agencies told reporters to drop their investigations into her background on pain of arrest.
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Men claiming to be from security agencies, but who refused to provide identification, also sought to discourage Reuters from further reporting on Malik’s background, threatening journalists with arrest for unspecified offences.
As in the old Soviet Union, the Ministry of the Interior in Muslim Countries is in charge of the political police.