Action should be taken against lack of press freedom in Pakistan: NGO ANI | Updated: May 03, 2021 19:53 IST
The Hague [Netherlands], May 3 (ANI): Highlighting lack of pressfreedom in Pakistan, a Netherlands-based NGO has urged the international community to take actions as journalists, who dare to speak against the Pakistanmilitary, are under severe threat.
In a letter on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, NGO Global Human Rights Defense demanded that actions should be taken against the continued lack of pressfreedom in Pakistan, specifically Balochistan, Sindh and Baltistan over the past few years.
Between May 2019 and April 2020, there have been more than 90 cases of attacks and violations against members of the press in Pakistan, the NGO wrote in the letter citing a report by Freedom Network.
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PARTICIPANTS of the Aurat March chant slogans on Monday evening. Reuters
KARACHI: “My name is Neha and on this International Women’s Day I appeal to the government to end forced conversions and pass strong legislation so that this does not happen to another girl,” said the visibly emotional teenager as she gasped for air.
Trying to gather courage as she addressed a subdued crowd and reporters at the Aurat March event on Monday, she said, “I was 14 years old. What was my fault? My family, my education was taken away from me.”
The young girl was abducted from Karachi’s Ittehad Town in 2019 and was a victim of forced conversion and child marriage. Sharing that her case lingered on for two years, she urged the government to look into the issue.
PARTICIPANTS of the Aurat March chant slogans on Monday evening. Reuters
KARACHI: “My name is Neha and on this International Women’s Day I appeal to the government to end forced conversions and pass strong legislation so that this does not happen to another girl,” said the visibly emotional teenager as she gasped for air.
Trying to gather courage as she addressed a subdued crowd and reporters at the Aurat March event on Monday, she said, “I was 14 years old. What was my fault? My family, my education was taken away from me.”
The young girl was abducted from Karachi’s Ittehad Town in 2019 and was a victim of forced conversion and child marriage. Sharing that her case lingered on for two years, she urged the government to look into the issue.