PFUJ to march on capital to demand media workers' rights.

LAHORE -- The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has announced a long march in the first week of April from Quetta to Islamabad to force the government and media owners to fulfil their legal obligations towards media workers who are facing financial hardships for the last two years.

'The anti-worker alliance between the government and the media owners has forced us to launch a struggle to achieve our rights,' read a statement issued by the PFUJ at the end of a three-day meeting of its Federal Executive Council (FEC) held at the press club with its president Shahzada Zulfiqar in the chair.

'Under this unholy alliance, the owners of media industry have surrendered their independence to the government to get a free hand to violate the labour laws and sack thousands of workers during the last two years, impose forcible pay cuts in their salaries, and default on the payment of workers' salaries for months,' the statement said.

After reaching Islamabad, the marchers would stage a sit-in outside...

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