MURREE, Pakistan: The President Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Afzal Butt has said that Journalism needs responsible journalists as it is name of responsibility while using your pen.
While addressing the oath taking ceremony of newly elected members of Murree Press Club held at Murree Arts Council on Friday as a Chief Guest, the PFUJ president said journalism was lifetime commitment but with a bundle of responsibilities.
Afzal Butt was of the view that he would at disposal of journalists of all of Pakistan would stand with them wherever and whenever he would be needed.
Meanwhile, speakers lauded the role of the President PFUJ Afzal Butt for protecting rights of journalists and reviving trade union journalism in Pakistan. They said journalists could play a pivotal rule in development of far flung areas.
Speakers of the view that journalism of Pakistan needed educated people because journalism was an honoured profession of any Country.
The former President National Press Club (NPB) Tariq Chaudhry said Murree had been a historic place in the history of subcontinent but nobody took responsibility for protection of beauty of Murree.
The former President of Murree Press Club Imtiazul Haq was of the view that journalism was not a profession rather a lifetime commitment that needed blood, and even life sometimes.
Imtiazul Haq said Murree Press Club was a forum that not only protected rights of journalists of Murree hills; rather that was a forum where anybody could launch complaints against journalists also, if any journalist was involved in misusing journalism against anybody.
The Secretary General Rawalpindi Union of Journalists (RFUJ) Ali Raza Ali while speaking at the ceremony said battle for securing rights of journalists would continue. He said people should have fulfilled their responsibilities instead of putting their responsibilities on the shoulders of journalists.
Ali Raza Ali said journalist was merely a reporter rather than a preacher, leader or reformer. He said people thought that journalist was a reformer but that concept was wrong.
The senior journalist and Columnist Aslam Khan was of the view that the Murree Arts Council had been a nucleus for literary and political activities in the past, and had a historic status in Pakistan.
