Kashmir runs through blood of Pakistani nation: PFUJ (Workers) President

MIRPUR (AJK), Jan 16 (APP/DNA):Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (Workers) Central President Dr. Sadia Kamal has said that Kashmir was the jugular vein of Pakistan and the people of Pakistan were fully well aware of how to protect their jaguar vein – since Kashmir runs through the blood of the entire Pakistani nation.

Leading a 28-member delegation of the PFUJ (W) comprising Islamabad-based working journalists affiliated with national print and electronic media, she was speaking, as Chief Guest, at the Kashmir Press Club here.

Kashmir, she continued, was an unresolved internationally recognized dispute, which, she emphasized, was required to be settled according to the resolutions of the United Nations to ensure early grant of the right to self-determination to the people of the Jammu and Kashmir state.

The PFUJ [Workers) President said the Pakistani journalist’s fraternity always sided with Kashmiri’s just and principled struggle to achieve their globally recognized right of self-determination. ” They will continue to support Kashmiri’s struggle for the right to self-determination through the power of their intellect and pen”, she assured.

The newly elected President of Kashmir Press Club Mirpur Syed Abid Hussain Shah, Secretary General Raja Sohrab Ahmed Khan, Ex-President of the Press Club and Convener Jammu Kashmir Free Media Association Altaf Hamid Rao, President Jammu Kashmir Union Of Journalists Hafiz Maqsood, Vice President Rana Muhammad Shabbir Rajouri, Former President Sajjad Jaral, Information Secretary Raja Khalil Yusuf and Senior Journalist Zafar Mughal, senior journalists from Islamabad Kokab Sultana, Mazhar Iqbal, Abdul Razzaq Chishti reiterated their resolve to promote healthy and quality journalism in the country including Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) harmonious to the need of modern age in true perspective. Promotion of quality and healthy journalism, on the part of the professional, working journalists was the need of the hour in the greater national interests, they emphasized.