Mirpur (Ajk)
Like rest of the world, the World Press Freedom Day 2020 was also commemorated across Azad Jammu Kashmir on Sunday with the renewal of the pledge to continue supporting the struggles for the safety and security of the basic human right of expression and the freedom of press the world over.
The day was particularly marked with unanimous demand to the world human rights bodies for the grant of complete freedom to the press the world over especially in the areas like Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir where the freedom of expression was being gagged by the occupational Indian forces at the gun point primarily to suppress the Kashmiris struggle for liberation of the motherland from forced and unlawful Indian rule.
This year the media in Pakistan and AJK is operating under a new and challenging environment created by the spread of COVID-19. Since the spread of the pandemic in the country, two journalists have reportedly died and at least 38 media workers have tested positive.—APP
