Amid rising border tension between Pakistan & India, CJA took initiative to hold a panel discussion at the Karachi Press Club.

Culture Journalists Association kicks off its first panel discussion about the escalating tension between India and Pakistan by inviting stakeholders from the cultural community of Pakistan. At the occasion, Gul Rana, President of PPP People's Party, Cultural Wing said that “we are not scared”,

it is India who is afraid of us because it has no matching lyrical voices like Nusrat Fateh, Reshmaan, Ghulam Ali, Atif Aslam and Ali Zafar. India has much to lose by banning Pakistan’s talent in the wake of recent scenario.

The comic actor, Salim Afridi opined that, extremism has been eradicated from our country, but “whenever elections are held in India, the Indian extremists leaders stir up the sentiments of their people to gain mileage for general elections”.

Rauf Lala, the comedy king of Pakistan said, Modi should not kill his people for the sake of his own mean political agenda. “There are some artists in India who are paid money to speak against Pakistan and they are poisoning the minds. The percentage of Indian artists who honor Pakistani artists is much higher.”

Playwright, Almas Khalid stressed that Pakistani content should be given its due place in the domestic entertainment industry, as Indian TV channels are no more than a “mouthpiece of war mongering fanatics”.

Hanif Akbar, Joint Secretary, Karachi Press Club, demanded Indian films should be banned for exhibition in Pakistani cinemas.

Huma Nasar, a cultural entrepreneur, remarked that we always work for cultural exchanges from across the border but “India doesn’t reciprocate the same goodwill gesture”.

Khalid Hasan Khan, award-winning filmmaker hailed the founding of a cultural journalists body, CJA as “a flower seed planted in a garden going dry” thanks to the deplorable condition of massive layoffs in the national press and electronic media. He added that Modi’s war aggression is a smokescreen to digress “a brewing civil war in India due to his political parochialism”.

The unique, timely and interactive session hosted by Kashif Girami:

the member of the governing body of the Art Council of Pakistan, Karachi. The panel session was followed by a highly- charged Q&A session

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