LAHORE: Pakistan Television (PTV) has a fired a journalist from the job after he asked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif a tough question about the diminishing space for free media in the country, it emerged on Tuesday.
Azam Chaudhry, the President of the Lahore Press Club (LPC), had been hired as an analyst by PTV but was dismissed on the same day after asking the premier a challenging question. Chaudhry claims that he has not received any written notification from his employer regarding his termination.
According to Chauhdry, the PTV hired his services, but after he asked the premier a challenging question, he was fired without having received a written notice from his employer till now.
When the unexpected media limitations will be abolished, the journalist had questioned the prime minister, who was speaking at a press conference on June 30 with federal ministers Ishaq Dar and Marriyum Aurangzeb.
Chaudhary, while asking, said that his question is on behalf of the entire journalist community of the country as in the present era “We are facing media bans all over Pakistan.”
He told the prime minister that the present period was marked by severe restrictions and asked when and how these restrictions on the media would come to an end. Chaudhry pointed out that despite claims from all parties, including PML-N and PPP, about supporting freedom of expression, the reality was quite different.
