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Journalist Housing Society protest against ‘land grabbers’
July 14th, 2011 admin No comments
Journalist Housing Society protest against ‘land grabbers’
Staff Report
LAHORE: The journalist community, while protesting against a fake FIR registered by police under the name of land grabbers at the behest of the provincial rulers, Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and high ups of Police Department, gathered outside the CM’s Secretariat on Wednesday and asked police to arrest them if they were ‘dacoits’.
Harbanspura Police Station had launched an FIR against 13 senior journalists, including a governing body member of the Lahore Press Club (LPC), Baba Muzammal Gujjar, and some other unidentified journalists on the complaint of land grabber mafia which had already been involved in illegal land grabbing in the Journalists’ Housing Colony at Harbanspura.
A large number of journalists brought out a massive rally from the LPC to CM Secretariat at 7-Club Road where they staged a sit-in and chanted slogans against the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) government for patronising the land grabbers. They demanded prompt action against those behind the registration of fake FIR that named 13 journalists in a fake robbery and kidnapping case.
LPC representatives, Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) led the protest, offering collective arrests and demanding the authorities to suspend Harbanspura’s DSP and SHO for registering a fake case against senior members of their community.
LPC President Sarmad Bashir, Secretary Azam Chaudhry and other representatives, while addressing the protesters, said that the Harbanspura Police registered the fake case against the journalists on the directions of CCPO Ahmed Raza Tahir, and DIG (Operations) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar. They said that police and PML-N MPA’s were protecting the land grabbers by registering fake criminal cases against journalists.
They said that police was reluctant to arrest those who attacked the journalists and tried to occupy their residential plots in Journalist Housing Society. They said that the City Police was targeting journalists in a planned manner. They further said that the journalists are being victimised by the Punjab government for holding a meeting with the prime minister a day ago.
LPC leaders also announced another protest, to be held on Friday at 4pm, saying that their protest would not end until an action was taken against the land grabbers.
Meanwhile, Punjab government sent MPA Zaeem Qadri to negotiate with the journalists and to ask them to put an end to the protest, however, the journalists at large refused to enter into any deal unless proper action was taken against the land mafia. Separately, the opposition also submitted a resolution and an adjournment motion in the PA on the said issue and demanded the PML-N government to discuss the issue in the House.
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