Because of Pakistani press censorship during the martial law years from 1977 to 1985 - and Murtaza's understandable reluctance to discuss his terrorist past - little was known of the activities of the Al-Zulfiqar group he set up in Kabul in 1979.

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Even the Indonesian press, now freed from the shackles of censorship, has made no attempt to report what really happened in Liquica.

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The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) says that, in spite of the lifting of official censorship, Uzbekistan still has no press freedom to speak of, and there has been no substantial progress over the past year.

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