KARACHI: Caretaker Federal Minister for Information Murtaza Solangi has said that newspapers are still the most authentic and reliable source of news.

“The editor’s department is very important in newspapers. No other medium of media, especially the electronic one, has as many filters as there are in newspapers,” the interim information minister said while addressing ‘Meet the Editors’ programme organised by the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors yesterday.

Solangi was of the view that the main reason for the poor condition of the media was that many newspapers had eliminated the editorial department. The caretaker information minister said that there was no restriction on the publication of news of all the registered political parties in the country, except for the ones of leaders whose legal cases were being heard in the courts.

Solangi assured the CPNE that obstacles faced by the regional newspapers and journals in receiving advertisements would be removed. CPNE Secretary General Ejazul Haq told the caretaker information minister that a major recovery in terms of advertisements was still delayed. “There is a need to develop a strategy to solve the serious problems faced by the print media.”

Senior Vice President Anwar Sajdi said that there was a need to pay immediate attention to the crisis of newspapers and magazines due to economic problems. Vice President Sindh Amir Mahmood said that the information minister, being a journalist himself, knew the importance of newspapers and the editors’ institution.

PIO Muhammad Asim, PID Karachi DG Iram Tanveer, CPNE Finance Secretary Ghulam Nabi Chandio, Dy Secretary General Hamid Hussain Abidi, Joint Secretary Maqsood Yousufi and other members were present.

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 25 2023

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