A four-member delegation of media persons led by Secretary-General of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, Sindh chapter, Hamid Shaikh met Sindh Information and Labour Minister, Saeed Ghani, in his office on Friday.
The meeting was also attended by the President of Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ), Aftab Memon, senior journalist and former President of Hyderabad Press Club, Muhammad Hussain Khan, and former president of Karachi Union of Journalists, Hassan Abbas.
The meeting took into consideration the problems of Hyderabad-based journalists especially government grants unavailable to the HUJ, provision of land for constructing a housing scheme for journalists in Hyderabad, and other related problems of the media persons of the 2nd largest city of Sindh.
Hamid Shaikh and other members of the delegation expressed gratitude to the Sindh Information Minister while saying that the provincial Information Department in the past too had been helpful for the journalists when Saeed Ghani was the Information Minister in the previous term while the department would continue to serve the media persons in future too.
Saeed Ghani said on the occasion that the Pakistan Peoples’ Party always believed in the concept of a free press in the country as the PPP had always taken special measures to ensure the welfare of the journalists whenever it had come into power.
He said that former prime minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto had used every forum available to her to raise her voice in the favour of freedom of the media.
