Pakistan: CFWIJ Congratulates Manmeet Kaur, First Sikh Woman Journalist Nominated To The Prestigious Award

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Location: Pakistan, Peshawar
Date: May 16, 2020

Manmeet Kaur has been nominated for a prestigious award by the Sikh group in the United Kingdom. Kaur has been named among '100 most influential Sikh personalities under 30 years of age' in the world by a UK-based global Sikh organization, one of the top UK honors.

Kaur has promoted interfaith harmony and the rights of minorities in Pakistan for a very long time. Other nominees include Indian singers Ammy Virk, Gaurav Randhawa, and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

We congratulate Manmeet for the nomination and cheer for her to win.

 

The CFWIJ strongly condemns the police brutality against journalists. We demand the immediate return of the press cards seized from the security forces. Policies to intimidate journalists should be abandoned, and journalism should be practiced under the criteria of freedom of the press.

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