There was no issue of the newspaper on Jan 29, 1969, on account of the strike. The following extract is from the previous day’s issue.

KARACHI: The journalists of Karachi will go on a 24-hour strike beginning from 6 a.m. today (Jan 28) in protest against the “Police excesses on journalists in Karachi and other parts of the country”.

A decision to this effect was taken by a general body meeting of the Karachi Union of Journalists held under the presidentship of Mr Sultan Ahmad at the Karachi Press Club yesterday.

A resolution passed at the meeting said: “The meeting expresses profound sense of shock and indignation over a number of incidents in which newsmen including in particular Press photographers had been assaulted and brutally manhandled by the Police in Karachi, Dacca and Lahore. … The meeting was extremely pained to note these wanton attacks on newsmen engaged in their normal professional work in different places showed a uniform pattern and betrayed utter lack of respect for the freedom of the Press, for the right of newsmen to go about their work of news-gathering without let or hindrance and for the dignity of newsmen.” — Correspondent

Published in Dawn, January 29th, 2019