SUKKUR: Media personnel in Kandhkot, Shikarpur and Ghotki towns held protest demonstrations after a police team from Punjab broke into the Kandhkot Press Club and tried to take away its former president Baqa Mohammad Bangwar and his professional colleague Saleem Mirani on Friday without informing anyone about their crime.

A large number of journalists and other media personnel offered resistance, forcing the police team to leave the premises.

Speaking to the participants at the protest venues, leaders of the journalist community strongly condemned the fresh police action. They recalled that one of their professional colleagues, Khan Mohammad Shar, had been taken away by the Punjab police along with his family members in a similar action in Kashmore 10 days ago and their whereabouts were not known till date.

They said such actions could not deter the journalist community from discharging its duty of disseminating facts through fair reporting.

They acknowledged that the Sindh and Punjab police were annoyed over reporting of their utter failure to eliminate dacoit gangs in the riverine areas of the two provinces, as well as those of Balochistan.

Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2024

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