Our resolve is to protect the rights and welfare of journalists from the tribal districts and to promote positive journalism.
Objectives under our constitution
- To arrange professional, educational, social, organizational, sports and cultural activities for the mental and physical development of our members.
- To organize talks, debates, seminars, workshops, refresher courses, lectures and exhibitions on matters important to journalists.
- To set up welfare funds for needy and disabled members.
- To affiliate QUJ with the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ).
- To highlight the issues, problems and aspirations of the tribal people through informed discussion.
Our commitments
- To work for the safety of journalists and their families, and for an environment in which journalism can grow in the tribal districts.
- To keep effective contact with government institutions to reduce the difficulties journalists face.
- To raise awareness of the deprivation of the tribal districts through positive reporting, and to inform national and international organizations.
- To help reduce poverty and unemployment, and to promote education and skills training in the tribal districts, through effective reporting.
- To promote democratic thinking and stand for the defence of the country’s borders.
- To set up a QUJ unit in every tribal district.
- To build professional ties with press clubs and journalist organizations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, across Pakistan and abroad.
- To encourage educated young people to join journalism.