Muzaffarabad ,(Parliament Times) : TV Journalists Association, the representative organization of journalists associated with national and international electronic media in Azad Kashmir, has complained about the government’s retaliatory actions against Muzaffarabad journalists Waqas Kazmi and Raja Khalid and four Kashmiri journalists, Aamir Mehboob, Raja Kafeel,condemning the retaliatory actions taken by the Prime Minister and the Interior Minister against Shahzad Rathore and Khwaja Kashif Mir, the Ministers have asked the Azad Kashmir Accountability Bureau and the Anti-Corruption Department to refer to international and national journalistic and human rights organizations.
It has announced to run a vigorous protest movement including providing evidence of corruption cases, constitutional and legal defense of revenge actions.
The TV Journalists Association termed the incidents against the media in Azad Kashmir for the past few days as strangulation of freedom of expression, former president of AKNS Aamir Mehboob, senior journalists Raja Kafeel, Kashif Mir, and Shahzad Rathore.
Secret cases were also condemned, in the advisory meeting of TV Journalists Association Azad Kashmir, Imtiaz Awan, Muhammad Arif Arfi, Asif Raza Mir, Sajjad Mir, Naeem Abbasi, Fida Hussain, Syed Ashfaq Shah, Naeem Chughtai, Nadeem Shah, Shah Zaib Afzal, Waqas Kazmi, Raja Shujaat, Raja Khalid, Ashfaq Awan, Shujaat Mir, Shabbir Anjum, Kamran Mughal, Fawad Abbasi, and Hamza addressed the meeting against the decision of retaliatory action at the government level.
In the meeting, it was decided to fight against the decision of retaliatory action at the government level within the framework of the constitution and the law. In the advisory meeting of the TV Journalists Association, it was decided that the news and Vlog published against the Minister of Government Abdul Majid Khan, A three-member committee consisting of senior journalists has been established to investigate the records, which will review all the documentary evidence and take action.
In the meeting, it was decided to provide the documentary evidence of the allegations against the government minister to the Accountability Bureau and the anti-corruption department.
In the meeting , it has been decided to broadcast the government’s reprisals against journalists on domestic and international media and write letters to international human rights organizations, reporters without borders, press clubs, journalistic organizations and media houses.
In this regard, the establishment of a three-member committee was also approved. In the advisory meeting of TVJA, it was decided to fully support the call of protest by CUJ.
In the consultation meeting, along with deciding the future course of action, to adopt an effective strategy to challenge the unconstitutional and illegal actions of the government against journalists in the higher judiciary and to defend the government’s accusations based on facts were also decided.
