20 March 2009
Manzoor Hussain Parwana ,Chairman GBUM urged President Asif Ali Zardari and the rest of the Pakistan government to make it one of their priorities to defend press freedom in Gilgit Baltistan. Accompanied by representatives of Gilgit Baltistan United Movement on 20 March 2009 at the occasion of his attendance in the court of session judge Parwana addressed the press at Skardu.
“The press freedom situation is getting worse in Gilgit Baltistan and it is the government’s duty to reverse this disturbing trend,” Parwana said. “The country cannot continue to develop and progress towards democracy without a free and independent press. The president and his government must get fully involved in this issue and must take measures that give journalists more freedom to work.
“As long as the monthly journal Kargil International is banned and the editor and the publisher of the magazine has booked in sedition charges on criticized the policies of general ® Musharaf sine 2004.
The editor of the magazine, Engineer Manzoor Hussain Parwana and publisher Ghulam Shehzad Agha rejected the charges and said: “Instead of ensuring basic rights to the people of Gilgit-Baltistan, the government is humiliating and harassing them.”
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http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southasia.asp?parentid=67229
The journalists must be freed from the case as soon as possible. They committed no crime and this case, which has been marred by judicial irregularities, is a grave stain on Pakistan’s image. Parwana Added.
Manzoor Hussain Parwana
Chairman Gilgit Baltistan United Movement
Skardu Baltistan
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