ISLAMABAD: The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) has announced it would hold a sit-in in front of the Prime Minister’s House on Eid day in protest against non-payment of salaries in various media houses and abolition of 25 per cent quota for regional newspapers.

A 20-member Joint Action Committee headed by RIUJ President Amir Sajjad Syed has been formed to organise the sit-in. Members of the committee include Sardar Shaukat Mehmood, Malik Shaukat Satti, Asif Malik, Waheed Rasool, Qurban Chaudhry, Waqar Yousafzai, Naeem Qureshi and Sardar Nisar Tabassum.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2020

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