Editor-In-Chief The INQUIRER Shamshad Mangat and Chairman of Digital Media Alliance Syed Ali Naqi Gardezi, President Jawad Zaheer Abbasi, Secretary Malik Rashid Nazir, and all members of the Governing Body congratulated the office bearers of Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) who were successful in the elections 2025 Once again.
The newly elected President Tariq Ali Work, Vice Presidents Raja Bashir Usmani Joint Secretary Gulzar Khan, Governing Body Ghufran Ahmed Chishti, Nawabzada Shah Ali, accepted the congratulations, and all the successful office bearers were congratulated by the INQUIRER and Digital Media Alliance and the officials of the Digital Media Alliance and The INQUIRER. It is believed that the newly elected officials have the trust of the journalistic community of the Twin Cities as well as the digital media, and it is hoped that they will make every effort to live up to the trust of the journalistic community, electronic, print, as well as digital media journalists, and will utilize their leadership skills to solve the problems faced by them.
The leadership of the Digital Media Alliance also expressed the hope that RIUJ has always played a practical and key role in solving the problems of journalists across the country and, God willing, this trend will continue in the future. The newly elected officials will continue to struggle in a better way for the promotion of high journalistic values ​​and freedom of the press. God willing, every member of the Digital Media Alliance will always be present alongside RIUJ for freedom of the press and the issues faced by journalists.
President-elect Tariq Ali Virk assured that he will look into the issues of every member of the Digital Media Alliance and continue his efforts for the issues faced in the field of journalism. The delegation included Chairman Ali Naqi Gardezi, President Jawad Zaheer Abbasi, General Secretary Malik Rashid Nazir, Syed Murtaza Shah, Shafe Mughal, Sardar Muneeb Chaudhry Aamir, Azifa Zaheer, Armaan Khan, Khabib, Masood Chaudhry, Waqar Adil Abbasi, Hamid Chaudhry, Raja Hasnain, Muhammad Junaid, Adnan Yaqoob, Zamiruddin, Sardar Faisal and others.
Speaking to the Correspondent of The INQUIRER and delegation of Digital Media Alliance, President RIUJ Tariq Ali Virk said that our final Federal Executive Council meeting in Pakistan was held in Gujranwala, and it was decided that our digital media partners should be Membership will be given. Not all digital media people can be journalists. Journalists will be those who are doing the work that is required according to the principles of journalism.
In this regard, we have thought that you people are in the field all day long. You make more effort and work harder than the people on the channel. So you are present everywhere. That is why we decided that you people will be given membership in all the press clubs and unions in Pakistan so that you too can become part of us and work together as journalists. We know what power digital media has. Now there is no other option than that. We cannot leave our colleagues. Everyone has come to digital media. If he is a big journalist, if he is not able to talk on any TV channel, he does his program. There are many things that he cannot talk about in his talk show, so he comes and makes his vlog on social media and tweets because channels also have their constraints. They have to do business and apart from that they have other constraints. There are different kinds of pressure on them.
If you can’t do this, digital media is a big platform where every person can come and express their opinion. Expressing opinion is the fundamental right of every Pakistani, which is also allowed by the Constitution of Pakistan. Therefore, it was decided that we will give membership to you people and we are struggling together. Insha Allah, we are with you. If any colleague has any issues, we are here for you. You can contact us at any time. So I am grateful to you colleagues. On behalf of our entire body, they have expressed hope that you will continue to be a part of our protests in the future as well.
