LAHORE: Moneeza Hashmi, a daughter of renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz andtrustee of the Faiz Foundation Trust, was not allowed to attend the 15thAsia Media Summit held in New Delhi on May 10 even though she had beeninvited to speak at the event.
The organisers of the event, the Asia-Pacific Institute of BroadcastingDevelopment (AIBD), had invited Ms Hashmi to the meeting in her capacityas head of the creative and media wing of KASHF Foundation, Pakistan, andrequested her to speak on “Should all good stories be commerciallysuccessful”.
“On arrival at the hotel in New Delhi [on May 9] where the summit was to beheld I was told that no room was booked in my name as no Pakistani wasinvited to the event. No one was willing to register me for the summitdespite being a guest speaker,” Ms Hashmi said on Sunday.
“When I took up the matter with the organisers [AIBD] they expressed theirhelplessness [because of pressure from the Indian government] andapologised for the inconvenience to me,” she said.