[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat (TTS) Maulana Fazlullah has asked the journalists' community to use their pen against the negative propaganda of the West and cooperate with the Taliban in their struggle against the imperialist forces.Talking to local media persons by phone from an undisclosed location on Wednesday, the TTS chief said: "I believe in freedom of the media and distribution of pamphlets in Swat was not meant to threaten journalists. It was an appeal to counter conspiracies of the anti-Islam forces through their pen." The journalists are free to work in the district, he added.
He said journalists should report events objectively and that they had no intention to put curb on them. The journalists of Swat should continue with their fact-based reporting without any fear, he said.