HYDERABAD: Pakistani editor Najam Sethi, repeatedly jailed under various regimes, received a prestigious press freedom award on Tuesday for his work in the face of constant death threats. Sethi, editor-in-chief of the Friday Times and Daily Times in

Pakistan, accepted the 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom from the World

Association of Newspapers, warning that extremists now posed as great a threat to press freedoms as repressive governments. The pretigious award was given in WAN’s annual conference in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.