PBA demands security for media houses
PBA condemned MQM workers' attack on news channels in Karachi.
KARACHI (Web Desk) - Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) has strongly condemned yesterday’s attacks on ARY News offices and a DSNG van of Samaa TV in Karachi.
PBA in its statement expressed serious concerns over the attacks and threats on the Media outlets and termed these as dangerous threats to freedom of expression and independent media.
It further said that media must be allowed to perform its duties as empowered by the constitution of Pakistan.
PBA expressed complete solidarity with the affected news channels against these acts of violence and reiterated its demand for providing security to media houses.
Earlier on Monday, MQM activists clashed with police and ransacked ARY News office in the southern port city of Karachi, leaving at least one man dead and seven others injured.
The violence erupted soon after the powerful exiled leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Altaf Hussain, gave a telephone address to his supporters in which he castigated the media for not giving due coverage of his workers.
Hussain’s activists, who had just ended a week-long hunger strike over a government crackdown against them, attacked the ARY station after his address from self-imposed exile in London.
MQM workers also clashed with police on the streets, sparking volleys of gunshots and tear gas in several places across the city, police and witnesses said.
