Candle Light Vigil in memory of Slain Journalist Saleem Shahzad‏

Nothing can be more disheartening, than news of someone’s brutal murder. Saleem Shahzad, a veteran Pakistani journalist and a loud voice of reason was first abducted and than killed by the forces of dark in Pakistan.  

We never met Saleem Shahzad personally but we the members of Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians here in Vancouver like many others living in Pakistan and hundreds of thousands of conscious people elsewhere in this globalised and interconnected world were saddened, alarmed and got angry over this brutal killing. 

Saleem Shahzad who had just turned to 40 was a true professional investigative journalist, who wrote extensively on issues pertaining to global security, especially on Pakistani military and religious militant movements in the Muslim world. 

To protest the brutal killing of Saleem Shahzad, a father, a husband, a brother, a son and a journalist, and to wish to see Pakistan a socially progressive, politically democratic and secular country, than please come and join the Canadian Pakistanis and South Asian diaspora here to lit a candle and show support to slain Saleem Shahzad's family, Pakistani journalists and the voices of reason of civil society in Pakistan. 

The program is as under: 

Candle Light Vigil in the memory of slain journalist Saleem Shahzad 

Hum jo Tareak rahoon mein marey gaye/ We, who were slain in unlit pathways..." Faiz

7.30 pm,  Sunday, June 12, 2011 

Holland Park
(Corner of King George Boulevard and Old Yale Road)
Surrey, BC. 

Organized By
CPPC (Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians) 

Endorsed By
FVPC (Fraser Valley Peace Council)

SANSAD (South Asian Network for Secularism & Democracy) 

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