Following up my item on Saturday about Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s domestic press crackdown, the Pakistani government has now expelled three journalists from Britain’s Telegraph group.

The Daily Telegraph’s Isambard Wilkinson and Damien McElroy, and the Sunday Telegraph’s Colin Freeman were given 72 hours to leave the country, after the Daily Telegraph published an editorial criticising President Musharraf.

A spokeswoman for the Telegraph Group confirmed the journalists had left safely but declined to comment further.