From Layoffs to Lashes: PFUJ’s 70-year fight for media freedom

Having been established in 1950, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) attained the grand age of 70 years on August 2, 2020. It’s time, therefore, for all Pakistani journalists to pay tribute to our visionary predecessors who setup a trade union for safeguarding, fighting for, our rights merely three years after independence, when the dust from united India’s partition had yet to settle. This achievement is so spectacular and remarkable that many journalists lovingly refer to our forebears who set up the union as “our founding fathers”.