By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Urdu Editors Guild has condemned attack on Urdu journalist Abdul Waheed Chishti by allegedly Shahi Jama Masjid Imam Ahmed Bukhari and his aides during a press conference in Lucknow on Thursday, and demanded that the guilty must be brought to book.
“Urdu Editors Guild is shocked to see the growing numbers of attack on the working journalists. The recent case in question being of physically assaulting Mr. Abdul Waheed Chishti, a journalist of an Urdu daily, by the Imam of Shahi Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari. It is to be noted that he was involved in a similar attack on another scribe Mr. Yusuf Ansari in the past,” it said in a statement.
“This is a completely undemocratic way of dealing with some unfavorable media questions. Urdu editors Guild condemns the attack by Ahmed Bukhari as a reprehensible act, and exhorts the media fraternity to boycott Ahmed Bukhari till he tenders a public apology for his unruly behavior,” the release added.