{"id":12045,"date":"2025-10-03T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/03\/journalists-mobilize-national-press-club-raid\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:20:08","slug":"journalists-mobilize-national-press-club-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/03\/journalists-mobilize-national-press-club-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Mobilize Over National Press Club Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, 2 October 2025 \u2014 The newly elected body of the Parliamentary Reporters Association of Pakistan (PRA) has strongly condemned the police action at the National Press Club, calling it a dark and shameful act. Newly elected president <strong>MB Sumro<\/strong>, Secretary General <strong>Naveed Akbar<\/strong> and other office-bearers said the National Press Club is a journalists&#8217; home and any attack on it cannot be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The PRA described the intervention by Islamabad Police as undemocratic and demanded accountability, stressing that the journalist community stands united against such measures. The association made clear that they will not tolerate any attempts to intimidate media professionals or restrict access to the National Press Club.<\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate solidarity, the newly elected PRA body announced full support for the planned &#8216;Black Day&#8217; at the National Press Club on Friday, 3 October 2025, and decided to postpone all election victory celebrations. The move is intended to show collective resolve in defense of press freedom and the safety of the club premises.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a peaceful but forceful protest, PRA Pakistan has called for a walkout from the press gallery during tomorrow&#8217;s National Assembly and Senate sessions. Members have been urged to ensure their presence at Parliament House to register a strong, unified response to the police action.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was issued by <strong>Javed Hussain<\/strong>, Secretary Information of the Parliamentary Reporters Association of Pakistan, reaffirming that the focus remains on protecting the National Press Club and upholding the rights of journalists across Islamabad and the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRA leaders condemn police action at the National Press Club and call for a Friday protest and press gallery walkout to defend press freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}