ATTOCK
The journalistic fraternity of Attock urged upon the Caretaker Chief Minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi being their fellow journalist to get retrieved the occupied building of Attock Press Club and equipment worth rupees millions from the clutches of the district management Attock enabling them to express their solidarity with their Kashmiri brothers on Sunday February 05, 2023 as the journalist community have tried their best from pillar to post for want of their own officially allocated building.
The senior journalist and patron in chief of the Attock Press Club (Reg) Syed Raza Naqvi in his appeal preferred to the Chief Minister Punjab and others has disclosed the ordeal of lethargic attitude of the district management Attock before the media here on Friday.
He said that journalist community of Attock have also planned to join hands with their Kashmiri journalists on Kashmir Day to highlight their voice before the international forums through the Attock Press Club for the peaceful settlement of their right of self-determination. Unfortunately, the district administration has kept mum for their obvious reasons.
He said that the aggrieved journalists also lodged a protest sit in front of the DC Attock besides filing their formal appeals to the higher authorities for redressal of their genuine problems.
The Deputy Commissioner Attock after summary hearing has referred the case to the Deputy Director Public Relations Department Attock Mr. Shahzad Niaz who subsequently forwarded the complaint to the Chief Officer, Zila Council Attock Mr. Bad Shah Khan.
The Chief Officer, Zila Council Attock Mr. Bad Shah Khan in his version told to senior journalist Syed Raza Naqvi that the case will be placed before the Deputy Commissioner Attock as per available record. However, the entire official process was proved a futile exercise as nothing could be heard from the quarters concerned under one pretest or the other till to date.
Raza Naqvi said that the building of the Attock Press Club (Reg) was allotted in pursuance of a resolution passed by the District Council Attock during the chairmanship of ex-MPA Attock Syed Ejaz Bokhari in 1985 for performance of their journalistic activities in a conducive environment.
The rent and all utility charges of the building were also being contributed by the working journalistic community to the District Council Attock without any break.
This building is only the specified place where different constitutional bodies of the office bearers were also elected to perform their day to day official business for making arrangements of media projection of all provincial, federal visiting dignitaries, public departments, socio-political figures in all print and electronic media.
Syed Raza Naqvi further said that suddenly the Revenue Department of Attock forcibly snatched the same building of the Attock Press Club (Reg) including office equipments, computers, furniture, fixture worth of rupees million in the absence of working journalists.
The district management even did not bother neither to serve any prior notice nor cancel allotment with the consent of the members of the Attock Press Club (Reg).
The journalist community of the District Attock led by senior journalist and patron in chief of the Attock Press Club (Regd) Syed Raza Naqvi demanded of the Caretaker Chief Minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi being their brother journalist to get vacated the forcibly occupied Attock Press Club Building from the clutches of the district administration Attock. Besides, initiating departmental and criminal inquiry against the delinquents involved in this case, accordingly.
