INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: Jordan
Bilawal promises to end impunity of crimes against media personsKARACHI: On the eve of the World
Press Freedom Day, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the PPP will end impunity of crimes against journalists as a manifesto
pledge."It is a sad thought on this day that scores of journalists in Pakistan have been killed or harmed otherwise during the last decade
create a Journalists Protection Fund to assist victim journalists and their families, he said.Those who attack journalists or commit crimes
against them are those who fear freedom of expression and articulation of pluralistic ideas
The Party will expose these elements and also bring them to justice, he said.The Party will also reverse the tide of systematic erosion of
freedom of expression in the name of ideology and law order, the PPP Chairman said.He said that free flow of information and ideas empowers
citizens and this requires that media persons must be able to perform their duties without fear.The PPP Chairman also urged organs of the
state to bring to justice the perpetrators of crimes against journalists for removing misgivings in this regard.I also wish to pay tribute
to all those journalists who have braved odds while performing their duties under difficult and dangerous conditions, Bilawal said.
