The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) was established in 1950 and represents over 5,000 journalists. It advocates for journalists' rights and leads protests to demand better working conditions. Laws intended to protect journalists are poorly implemented, with most media companies not following regulations on wages, benefits, and job security. The PFUJ works to strengthen media laws and their enforcement to improve journalists' welfare and allow them to report independently without owner interference.

3. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
AUGUST 2, 1950

4. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)

5. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)

6. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)

7. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
Daily “Anjam” Karachi. (1966), daily “Kohistan” Lahore
(1969), the hunger strike led by the PPL (Pakistan
Times and Imroze) workers union and joined by the
PUJ for the reinstatement of the four lower grade
employees in January 1977, the historic 10-days
countrywide strike for the implementation of the
interim award by the Second Wage Board in April
1970, and over 45-days long hunger strike movement
in 1974 for the reinstatement of arbitrarily sacked
journalists and other employees of the daily
“Musawaat” Lahore. This was a countrywide
movement resulting in imprisonment of over 300
journalists and press workers.

8. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
The PFUJ has never favored extra constitutional and
authoritarian governance regardless of its form- military or
Civilian. For it strongly believes that without a constitutional
framework and democratic dispensation rooted in the
consent and aspirations of the people

9. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)

10. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
The Zia rule will remain a night-mare for a number of its features for a long time, but perhaps none of these gave warning
of the nature of the rule to come more strikingly in the very early years than the dictator’s decision to have four journalists
convicted and openly flogged.
The journalists and newspa-per workers organisations, consistent in reacting to all official actions against the press, urged
withdrawal of these measures. When its appeals went unheard and its requests for a di-alogue were turned down it
decided to stage protest rallies and court ar-rest by violating Section 144, normally an emergency law meant to restrict
assembly of more than four persons at any public place.
The protest started on April 30 in Lahore as announced, and daily a procession taken out from Lahore hotel to the
assembly hall and a group of four-offered arrest to the sympathiz-ing cheers of thousands of bystand-ers.
When that didn’t seem to be working and the movement kept go-ing, the dictator decided to raise the stakes. He asked
the sentence to in-clude flogging. If some of the journal-ists were lashed that would spread terror among the rest, it was
thought, and tire movement would collapse.
Accordingly, the group that was arraigned before the kangaroo court of a Major on May 13, 1978, was promptly
sentenced, among other things; to be given 5 lashes each. Within an hour of the judgment the sentence was actually
carried out. In the Kot Lakhpat jail, Nasir Zaidl, Khawar Naeem Hashmi and Iqbal Jafri were each stripped to their waist,

11. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)

12. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
Abbottabad Union of Journalists (AUJ)
Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ)
Bhawalpur Union of Journalists (BhUJ)
Faisalabad Union of Journalists (FUJ)
Gujranwala Union of Journalists (GUJ)
Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ)
Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ)
Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ)
Larkana Union of Journalists (LUJ)
Multan Union of Journalists (MUJ)
Mirpur Khas Union of Journalists (MkUJ)
Nawabshah Union of Journalists (NUJ)
Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ)
Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ)
Sargodha Union of Journalists (SgUJ)
Sukkur Union of Journalists (SUJ)
Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ)
Hub Union of Journalists (HubUJ)

13. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
HUB

14. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
5000 +

15. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)

16. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
Code of Conduct
Like other trade unions, formed for mutual protection and economic betterment The Pakistan Federal Union of
Journalists desires and encourages its members to maintain good quality of workmanship and high standard of
conduct.
A member of the Union has two claims on his loyalty, one by his Union and one by his employer. These need
not clash so long as the employer complies with the agreed Union conditions and makes no demand for forms
of service incompatible with the honor of the profession or with the principles of-trade unionism.
1. A member should do nothing that would bring discredit on himself, his Union, his newspaper, or his
profession. He should study the rules of his Union, and should not, by commission or omission, act against the
interests of the Union.
2. Whether publication or suppression, the acceptance of a bribe by a journalist is one of the gravest
professional offences.
3. Every journalist should treat subordinates as considerately as he would desire to be treated by his superiors.
4. Freedom in the honest collection and publication of news facts and the rights of fair comment and criticism,
are principles, which every journalist should defend.
5. Unless the employer consents to a variation, a member who wishes to terminate his employment must give
notice according to agreement.
6. No member should seek promotion or seek to obtain the position of another journalist by unfair methods. A
member should not directly or indirectly, attempt to obtain for himself or any one else, any commission,
regular or occasional held by a freelance member of the Union.

17. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
7. It is unprofessional conduct to exploit the labor of another journalist by plagiarism, or by using his copy for
linage purposes without permission.
8. Staff men who do linage work should be prepared to give up such work to conform with any pooling
scheme approved by the FEC or any Union plan to provide a freelance member with a means of earning a
living.
9. A member holding a staff appointment shall serve first the paper that employees him. In his own time a
member is free to engage in other creative work, but he should not undertake any extra work in his rest time
or holidays, if by so doing he is depriving an out of work member of a chance to obtain employment. Any
misuse of rest days won by the Union on the sound argument that periods of recuperation are needed after
strenuous hours of labor is damaging to trade unions aims for a shorter working week.
10. While a spirit of willingness to help other members should be encouraged at all times, members are under
a special obligation of honor to help an unemployed member to obtain work.
11. A journalist should fully realize his personal responsibility for every thing he sends to his paper or agency.
He should keep Union and professional secrets and respect all necessary confidences regarding sources and
information and private documents. He should not falsity information or documents, or distort of
misrepresent facts.
12. In obtaining news or pictures, reporters and Press photographers should do nothing that will cause pain or
humiliation to innocent, bereaved, or otherwise distressed persons. News pictures end documents should be
acquired by honest methods only.
13. Every journalist should keep in mind the danger in the laws of libel, contempt of court and copyright. In
reports of law court preceding it is necessary to observe and practice the rule of fair play to parties.

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JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)

19. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (FEC)

22. Law Implementation
Newspapers employees’ ( Condition of Service) Act, 8%
1973
The Industrial & Commercial Employment (Standing 7%
Orders) Ordinary, 1968
The Factories Act 1934 4%
The Payment of Wages Act 1936 5%
The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 Zero Percent
The Employees’ Social Security Ordinance, 1965 Zero Percent
The Employees Old Age Benefits Act, 1976 10%
The Companies Profit (Workers Participation) Act 1968 50%
The Workers Welfare Fund Ordinance 1971 Zero Percent
The Employees Cost of Living Act 1`973 Zero Percent
The Workers Children (Education) Ordinance 1972 Zero Percent
Note: No law for the rights of electronic media person

23. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
LAW IMPLEMENTATION
Press, Newspaper, news Agencies & Books
Registration Ordinance, 2002 80%
Press Council of Pakistan Ordinance, 2002 Established
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory
Authority (PEMRA) Ordinance, 2002 30%
Associated Press of Pakistan Corporation
Ordinance, 2002 20%

24. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
Approx
Newspapers/Weeklies,
Monthlies, Fortnightlies & 6000
Periodicals
News Agencies 15
Television Channels 103
FM Radio 117

25. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
In Print Media only 2% contents are
decided by the professional editors rest
by the owners.
In Electronic Media 14% contents
decided by the professionals rest by the
owners.

26. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
Job Security Nil
Life Security No
Appointment letters 24%
Contract system in print media 90%
Contract system in electronic
100%
media

27. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
Print Media
Electronic Media
Nil

28. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
LIMITED
Both in electronic and print media

29. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
NIL
BY THE OWNERS

30. PAKISTAN FEDERAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS (PFUJ)
Security continues to be one of the most significant challenges for
journalists and media personnel throughout Pakistan, particularly in
the conflict and insurgency-prone frontier regions.
2008 11
2009 13
2010 18
2011 14
2012 06

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