In a press release, Campaign Against State Repression (CASR), which organised the event said, "The program was to address the question of continuing harassment and incarceration of Journalists in order to suppress the grim realities of state repression in Kashmir."
Multiple incidents of Hindu girls, especially minors, being abducted and forced religious conversion to Islam in Pakistan have been reported in March 2023
According to the statistics revealed by Islamabad-based think tank, Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, January 2023 remained one of the deadliest months since July 2018, as 134 people lost their lives and 254 received injuries in at least 44 terrorist attacks across the nation.