Media workers have been passing through their worst times: KUJ

Karachi (HRNW)- Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) has said that Pakistani journalists and media workers have been passing through their worst times in terms of press freedom, employment and their safety and security.
In a statement to mark the World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd, 2020, KUJ said a renewed and well-spirited pledge was the need of the time to keep the free media flag afloat, as hostilities were tightening their grips on the independent and free media in Pakistan.
The hostile situation has become insidiously for the free journalism in view of the abject polarisation and division within amongst the journalist community, which see a new division within their ranks with every passing day.
On the Day, KUJ demanded the government and the political parties to learn the lessons from the unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19, which has crippled the country, along with other countries of the world.
“It is a high time to reflect, and a new social contact is needed to be drawn so the post-pandemic Pakistan could emerge as a healthy nation in all sphere of life, especially establishing free media that ensures democracies,” said Ashraf Khan, the president of the KUJ.
The KUJ also demanded the government of taking swift actions to end the plight of journalists in the hands of the media juggernauts as well as the the government, which were equally responsible for the current economic miseries of the journalists.
“If the journalists economic slaughter go on un-abetted, we dont see any future of the press in the country and thus no transparency,” Ahmed Khan Malik, the secretary general of the KUJ said.
“We demand the media organisations clear all their financial dues of the journalists pending for months and even for an year.”