POWER OF UNITY

Last week in the city of Faisalabad a heinous act of crime is carried out by the prison authorities on the prisoners and the journalists equally. The prisoners have claimed for bad quality of food. For which they went to hunger strike. In order to breach the strike prison authorities beat them brutally and some of the prisoners were badly injured due to the heavy shelling of tear gas by the authorities. Came to knowing of all this event a camera man of a local TV channel went there for coverage and he choose a higher place of water tank which was near the University of Agriculture. Prison police asked him to stop the coverage and then took him in the prison by force. In the prison the police also beat him with shoes and butts of the guns, before this all the cameraman had sent a report to his tv station for broadcasting during this all when connection between cameraman and newsroom broke. The channel authorities called their other representatives in the town to know about him why he broke the link. Reaching there on prison the representative irfan came to know that sajid cameraman is in the cruel hands of police. He called other TV channel representative present in the town. Seeing all this situation Dunya , ARY, Sama channel representatives called on the journalists of Faisalabd Press Club. The entire journalist went there irrespective of being a print or electronic media. All traffic was jammed on the both side of the road. The road was totally blocked one side from sargodha rad and other from Narwala road. The journalists protest by brutally beating the journalist and abusing him. In the meanwhile DCO Faisalabad came there and journalists raise the slogan against prison authorities to dismiss the jailor and Superintendent of the district prison. Protest was continued and all TV channels were live broadcasting this entire event after every fifteen minutes. Mean while a member of provincial assembly Khawaja Islam came there and ask to end the protest but journalist were showing unity and they all were together on one agenda that the dismissal of the Superintendent of prison Raza ullah Khan. Finally a DIG headquarter from Lahore came to see the event. He hears the entire event and found that in this matter the prison authorities are guilty. He dismissed the superintendent and thus the journalist ends their protest. Very next day Chief Justice of Punjab High Court Khawaja Mohammad Sharif took “So Moto” action against prison authorities and admired the journalists by highlighting this act of cruelty by the prison authorities on the prisoners