KARACHI, July 18: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has conferred the International Press Freedom Award on Mazhar Abbas, the secretary-general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ).

The CPJ will give out the awards at a ceremony at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Nov 20, a PFUJ press release said.

Mazhar Abbas said here on Wednesday he had decided to dedicate the award to the PFUJ, its founders and the country’s community of journalists.