ISLAMABAD, Jan. 12 Kyodo A Pakist...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 12 Kyodo

A Pakistani court waived Monday a six-month prison doom handed down to sum of two units French journalists who visited a tribal area in Baluchistan Province in southwestern Pakistan without permission.

Their lawyer Nafeez Sadiqui told reporters that the Sindh High Court bench said journalists Marc Epstein and Jean Paul Cuilloteau of French weekly L'Expres would each still have to pay a fine of 100000 rupee (about $1750)

The sum of two units journalists were arrested Dec. 16 for visiting the city of Quetta without valid visas. While in a tribal area they allegedly filmed tribesmen whom they had paid to nonplus as Taliban fighters taking shelter in Pakistan.

upon Friday, a court in Karachi sentenc the pair further their sentence was suspended to give them time to file an appeal.

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