BBC reporter denied entry to Dera Bugti: investigating plight of seven women

BBC correspondent attempting to investigate plight of seven women denied entry to army controlled district in Balochistan province.
Nisar Khokhar, a correspondent of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), along with a local newspaper journalist was stopped from entering the Dera Bugti district, where the Pakistan Army has been conducting military operations since 2001, says a press release on Friday.
Khokhar was assigned to investigate a report of seven women, who were arrested in April 2007 by the law enforcement agencies during a raid at a house in a village Sia Aff of Sangsila area of Sui town in Dera Bugti district.
The women were detained for more than 20 days in an army camp at Sui and were released in the second week of May. When these women returned to their homes, the people of the area refused to take them back and declared them to be "Dishonored" women, as they had been in the camp with army personnel. Army personnel at the Sui checkpoint, dressed and wearing the uniforms of officials of the Frontier Constabulary, stopped him and demanded his identity. The reporters were detained for about two hours inside the Kiosk. They were subsequently ordered not to enter the area and turn back immediately.-PR