KUJ sets up protest camp at KPC
The Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) under schedule announced by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) set-up a protest camp at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on its second phase of media movement that formally started on Monday.
Different political party leaders, NGOs, trade unionists, lawyers and other groups of civil society visited the camp at the KPC which included Nafees Siddiqui of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Habibuddn Junedi trade unionist, Naeem Qureshi KBA General Secretary, Iqbal Haider of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and others expressed solidarity with the protesting journalists.
The protest camp was staged at 1pm and continued for four hours till 5pm. During the protests, journalists chanted slogans against the curbs on the media and demanded its immediate lifting and opening of TV channels.
With the media movement gaining momentum day by day the foreign delegates also arrived in the city to visualise the overall situation in the country after emergency proclaimed in the country. A two-member delegation of Code Pink Women for Peace also arrived in the city.
Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry of Code Pink Women for Peace from California also visited the protest camp at the KPC and expressed their solidarity with the journalists. They were on a visit to Pakistan to get details about the situation arising out of the emergency in the country and would proceed to Lahore and Islamabad on Friday. The protest camp would continue till November 29.
Source: The News
Date:11/27/2007
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