HYDERABAD: November 14,2019. (PCP) Hyderabad Union of Journalists (Dastoor) governing body members including office bearers were honored by Sindh National Tehrik and Nari Tehri at their office Sindh House. At a cup of tea gathering newly elected governing body members were presented with traditional Sindhi gift Ajraks and garlanded with flower petals. The members of governing body who were honored at Sindh House included president HUJ Farhan Effendi, general secretary Abbas Kassar, senior vice president Akhtar Pirzada, treasurer Mujahid Aziz, GB members Hakim Leghari, Dr. Kausar and Uzma Jokhyo. Members of SNT and journalist fraternity attended the ceremony.

Addressing the gathering president HUJ Farhan Effendi said HUJ was striving for achievement of rights of journalists, reporters and cameramen and photo journalists who, he added, were under present political mismanagement. Whole journalist community of Pakistan was suffering as with strains and blockade of advertisement bills and also further denial to print media, thousands of working journalists have been sacked. He made appeal to other unions of journalists to at least work jointly to save jobs for media workers. 

Earlier SNT chairman Kamran Asraf Noonari welcomed newly elected body of HUJ by saying that political and social workers cannot succeed in their struggle for rights of downtrodden and poor without cooperation of media print and electronic. He assured full cooperation of his Tehrik to journalists for achievement of its goal.