Former PFUJ president Minhaj Barna has said that the Code of Conduct being sought to be imposed by the government is not workable in the presence of black laws.
The well-known press activist was invited to address media people, civil society activist, and representatives of the missing persons on the third day of Eid-ul-Azha here on Sunday at the protest camp in front of the RIUJ press club.
"The government has tried since 1952 to harness the journalists by the way of a controversial and officially manipulated Code of Conduct, and this has not been acceptable to the media persons," he said at the same time asking journalists to take the message of their protest to every nook and corner of the country.
Former information cum interior secretary Roedad Khan, said in his speech that finally the journalists would succeed in their mission though it might take some more time, because, usurping civil powers by the military is destined to be a failure, if the public showed courage and confront forces guilty of unconstitutional methods.
Hamid Mir, speaking about the officially written Code of Conduct said that even on this day a message was conveyed that if the Geo channel accepted the Code it would come on the air immediately, and the TV programme on Capital Talk could resume instantly.
Amina Iqbal, who represented the missing persons paid glorious tributes to the deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for taking suo motu notice of the missing persons.
With the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's birth anniversary two days from now, there were profuse references to him in the speech made by journalist leader Aslam Butt. He cried "Baba, a curse of darkness now deepens the beautiful land that you created for us".