NAUSHEROFEROZE: Dozens of local journalists staged a demonstration and a sit-in outside the Nausheroferoze Press Club (NPC) on Thursday against the kidnapping of their colleague and NPC Vice-President Zafar Tagar.
NPC President Ghulam Shabbir Khanzada and General Secretary Mazhar Khaskheli led the demonstrators, who chanted slogans against the police. Addressing the demonstrators, they demanded of the authorities to get the journalist released within 48 hours.
Source: The News
Date:3/21/2008
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