=> ISLAMABAD: The journalists of Rawalpindi and Islam
ISLAMABAD: The journalists of Rawalpindi and Islamabad continued their protest on the 45th day on Monday to press the government to remove curbs on media and judiciary. The protesting journalists staged a sit-in in front of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club camp office. Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan also joined the journalists to express solidarity with them.
Speaking on the occasion, Khan said the country at present was not “totally independent”, as the judiciary and media had been barred from working independently. “After 1947, it is another freedom movement, launched by journalists, lawyers and civil society members,” he added.
He said that those who had violated Article 6 of the constitution were traitors and should be brought to justice, adding that the journalists were fighting for the freedom of the whole nation. Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Secretary General Mazhar Abbas said that it was regrettable that members of the board of governors of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) were ignorant of the ban imposed on private TV channels.
Source: Daily Times
Date:12/18/2007
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