OTTAWA: `Judging by some of the speeches we have heard, we are to assume that Governments are essentially wicked and not to be trusted. We simply don`t believe that in Pakistan,` said Mr Altaf Husain, Editor of Dawn, Karachi, speaking at the 7th Imperial Press Conference meeting here yesterday [June 17]. Mr Altaf Husain, who was speaking on the difficulties of achieving absolute freedom of the Press in unsettled countries, said that newspapers in Pakistan at this stage do not demand absolute freedom.

`Such restrictions as we feel are necessary we impose ourselves,` he said.

Three delegates from Bharat, Mr Durga Das, Mr M.N. Cama, and Mr C.R. Srinivasan, also spoke... . Mr Cama summed up this view when he said: `Freedom of the Press in theory is a thing we should all aspire to have.

In practice, however, it might do more harm than good.

... Mr Srinivasan spoke against placing `uniformed, unintelligent controls` on the Press.

`The great traditions of the Press,` he said, `were built up in the days when there were no strait jackets.` ... Mr Cama said he would yield to no one as a fighter for freedom. But there had to be some limits. News agencies