Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani Stresses For Job Protection Of Media Persons

Umer Jamshaid Published January 24, 2019 | 05:20 PM

Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani Thursday said the rights of professional journalists ought to be protected by ensuring implementation of existing laws and said if required, new legislation should be enacted to this effect

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Jan, 2019 ) :Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani Thursday said the rights of professional journalists ought to be protected by ensuring implementation of existing laws and said if required, new legislation should be enacted to this effect.

He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of Peshawar Press Club at Parliament House. Senator Khanzada Khan was also present.

He said that media was an important segment of society and journalists' proactive role provides necessary guidelines for carrying out the agenda of social and national development. Unfortunately, the problems of professional journalists, who highlight the issues of all segments of society, remain neglected, he added.� Sadiq Sanjrani said that the journalists from Peshawar and other areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had offered sacrifices during the war on terror and had played a proactive role for establishing peace in the troubled regions.

�"Their sacrifices cannot be overlooked", he added.� He said that the Upper House of the Parliament would play its due role for promotion of media and protection of the journalists in the country.

He said the problems highlighted by the delegation would be deliberated with the relevant stakeholders for their early solution.

He said that necessary measures should be taken for implementation on the existing laws for job protection of the media person in the country.�� Earlier, representatives of the Peshawar Press Club apprised the Chairman about the problems being faced by the journalist community.�They informed the Chairman that professional journalists are being deprived of their job withoutgiving notices and requested the Senate Chairman to take up the issue at appropriate level.