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ISLAMABAD - The Interior Ministry Friday took Cyril Almeida off the Exit Control List – five days after imposing a travel ban on the senior Dawn journalist.
A notification issued by the ministry and published by Dawn.com said: “It has been decided to delete the name of Cyril Almeida……from the Exit Control List. All concerned are requested to take immediate action in the matter,” it said.
The decision came several hours after a delegation of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) and the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) met Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in Islamabad Friday.
The minister however said inquiry into the story on a high level security meeting, details of which were reportedly ‘leaked’ to Almeida, would continue.
Almeida, an assistant editor with the paper, ran into problems after his October 6 story on civil-military tensions angered the government and the army. This prompted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif directing that those responsible be identified for stern action.
Meanwhile, the Corps Commanders who met in Rawalpindi Friday expressed serious concerns over "feeding of false and fabricated story of an important security meeting held at PM House and viewed it as breach of national security."
Image: Cyril Almeida/Scroll.in
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