ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday strongly denounced the abduction of SAMAA’s correspondent Imdad Phulpoto by police in Sukkur. Speaking to the media persons in Islamabad, Khan said that exposing corruption was the job of a journalist and if the Sindh government had any reservations about SAMAA’s reporting, it should have approached...

Speaking to the media persons in Islamabad, Khan said that exposing corruption was the job of a journalist and if the Sindh government had any reservations about SAMAA's reporting, it should have approached the court.

"Corruption is a cancer for our society. It is the duty of journalists to expose it," he said, adding that an inquiry should have been initiated against those involved in corrupt practices not the journalist.

Phulpoto was picked up by police during a raid at his residence in Sukkur without any case against him.

Journalist unions and media persons strongly condemned the extra-judicial detention of Phulpoto and called it an assault on freedom of expression.

In Faisalabad and Sukkur, scores of journalists held a protest demonstration in front of press clubs and chanted slogans against the Sindh government for the unlawful confinement of Imdad Phulpoto.

Imdad Pulphoto had done several stories exposing Khurshid Shah's involvement in heading an unlawful jigra and free electricity supply to his 600-acre farmhouse.

In addition, the opposition leader also headed an unlawful jirga in Sukkur to settle a murder dispute. - SAMAA