Press Freedom Day is an appropriate occasion to commit ourselves ending violence against journalists and also to vigorously defend the frontiers of freedom of expression as guaranteed in the Constitution. Former president Asif Ali Zardari expressed these views in a message on the Press Freedom Day being observed today, said a press release.
He said exercise of right to information and the right to freedom of expression also required that media persons were free from threats to their lives and intimidation and coercion. Apart from physical protection it is also important that journalists have economic protection, he said and called for setting up mechanism to ensure protection of economic rights of journalists. Economic strangulation is no less than acts or threats of physical harm, he said.-PR
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