ABBOTTABAD, May 3: Speakers at a seminar on World Press Freedom Day strongly reacted over the negative tactics used by the different government agencies to harass the journalists, and said the district government, violating all ethics of the citizenship, had sealed the house of local newsman.

The seminar, organized by the Abbottabad Press Club on Friday, was largely attended by people from all walks of life — Nazimeen, Naib Nazimeen and members of union councils, representatives of NGOs and office-bearers of political parties.

Club’s General-Secretary Sardar Abrar Rasheed read the paper and reports complied by the different journalists associations. He also spoke on the problems and difficulties faced by the working newsmen in Pakistan.

APC President Syed Kosar Naqvi said the successive governments always made tall claims for free press, but it never remained as free as it was propagated, and all means were used to pressurize the journalists.