BUJ Delegation Meets Parliamentary Leaders; Invitation to Attend Proposed Roundtable Conference at Quetta Press Club on Tuesday, 17 November
QUETTA (Daily Qudrat): In continuation of the awareness campaign being run by the Balochistan Union of Journalists as part of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists’ nationwide protest movement, the series of contacts and meetings with parliamentary leaders of Balochistan’s political parties to participate in the proposed roundtable conference at Quetta Press Club, organised by BUJ and Quetta Press Club, is continuing.
On Friday, a joint delegation of BUJ and Quetta Press Club met parliamentary leaders of various political parties in the Balochistan Assembly and invited them to participate in the proposed roundtable conference at Quetta Press Club on Tuesday, 17 November.
The delegation, comprising BUJ President Manzoor Ahmed Rind, Quetta Press Club President Irfan Saeed, PFUJ Senior Vice President Noorullah Bugti, BUJ General Secretary Shah Hussain Tareen, Saleem Shahid, Jalaluddin Norzai and BUJ Finance Secretary Ismat Aman Samalani, held separate meetings with National Party head and MPA Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, BNP-Awami head and MPA Mir Asadullah Baloch, Deputy Speaker of the Balochistan Assembly and head of the Women’s Caucus in the Assembly Ms Ghazala Gola, Jamaat-e-Islami Balochistan Ameer and MPA Maulana Hidayat-ur-Rehman Baloch, PML-N parliamentary leader and Provincial Minister Mir Saleem Khosa, and PPP leader and Provincial Health Minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar.
The delegation informed the parliamentary leaders about the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists’ nationwide protest movement, the forced dismissals of journalists and media workers across the country including Balochistan, the closure of TV channels’ bureau offices in Balochistan, cases registered against journalists under the PECA Act and other problems faced by journalists, and the PFUJ and BUJ’s charter of demands. They were told that, in continuation of this protest movement, a roundtable conference will be held at Quetta Press Club on Tuesday, 17 November under BUJ’s auspices.
The BUJ and Press Club delegation appealed to the parliamentary leaders to participate in the proposed roundtable conference against the closure of media offices and forced dismissals in Balochistan.
On this occasion, the parliamentary leaders of the political parties, supporting the PFUJ’s charter of demands and the Balochistan Union of Journalists’ demands and protest movement, assured participation in the proposed roundtable conference at Quetta Press Club and the subsequent two-day protest camp at Quetta Press Club.
Issued by: Shah Hussain Tareen, General Secretary, BUJ.
