LAHORE: Senior journalists and former office bearers of Punjab Union
of Journalists have strongly condemned Punjab government bid to render
senior member of Lahore Press Club, PUJ and Punjab Assembly gallery
Mian Muhammad Nadim under the pretext of development works.
They
warned if Mian Muhammad Nadim and his family members would be dislodged
from their home without providing them alternative residence or paying
compensation then the journalist community would set up protest camps
outside chief minister house and Punjab Assembly.
A meeting of
senior journalists and former office bearers of Lahore Press Club here
in Lahore Press Club Tuesday which was attended by former president PUJ
Jalil Hassan Akhtar, Badar Islam Butt, Raja Aurang Zeb, former general
secretary Punjab Union of Journalists Qamar ul Zaman Bhatti, former
senior vice president Pakistan federal union of journalists, Nawaz
Tahir, former president Punjab Assembly Press Gallery Zahir Shahzad,
former vice president Lahore Press Club, Aamir Waqas Chaudhry, former
general secretary Lahore Press Club Mian Abid and others.
The
meeting expressed regret that Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar
Muhammad Chaudhry and other senior officials had taken no notice of the
appeal made against this high handedness and injustice.
Senior
journalist said if Punjab government needed old home of Mian Muhammad
Nadim then compensation be paid first of all to all affectees or
alternative residences be provided.
They demanded of PML-N
Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab chief minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif,
speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal and senior provincial
minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan to take notice of the matter, end
injustice in the name of development and harassment of family of senior
journalist.
On the other hand senior journalist Mian Nadeem has
announced to set up token hunger strike camp from July, 1 in Press Club
against the tyrannical act of government of Punjab. Online
