LAHORE – Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry FawadHussain Saturday said the government would soon introduce a new digitalpolicy for equipping the media with modern technology and facilities.
Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) andPunjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) during his visit to PTV Centre Lahore, hesaid a state-of-the-art media university would be established by mergingthe academies of Pakistan Television (PTV), Radio Pakistan and InformationMinistry.
He said it was the government’s responsibility to side with the poor and“we are standing with you people.” There was a great human resource in thefield of journalism, who, however, lacked skills and the government wouldwork to equip them with skills and expertise in respective fields at themedia university, he added.Work was under way for issuance of health cards to working journalists toensure provision of free of charge medical facilities of up to Rs 550,000to each of them, he added.
The minister said there was a positive development regarding DTH lincences.He said the government wanted to abolish its monopoly on mediaadvertisements. “Like the past governments, we cannot spend billions ofrupees on media advertisements,” he said, adding that the print media,however, would not be left to die on that count.
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He said the names of three judges had been proposed for Wage Board Award.Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority would be established so that all modesof media would have solution to their problems at one place.The delegation consisted of PFUJ President Rana Azeem, Salman Ghani, HabibAkram, Imran Khan, Shehzad Butt, Aamir Sohail and others.
