THE question should never be about who is at the receiving end at any given point in time: an assault on an individual or institution’s freedom is an assault on everyone’s freedoms. Last week, 600 journalists from all over the country lent their voice to a declaration rejecting a law that has unreasonably limited the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech granted to every citizen under Article 19.

Having gathered in Islamabad for a convention titled ‘Media Laws, Regulations and Ethics’, organised by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ), Pakistani journalists and media practitioners have demanded that parliament review all laws affecting them that contradict Article 19, while formally........

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