Times of Islamabad

PTI government decides to regulate social media in Pakistan

PTI government decides to regulate social media in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry while peaking to the“National Security, Nation Building and Mass Media” conference, said thatgovernment wants to regulate social media which is not possible without anactive collaboration with global social media giants like Facebook,Twitter, Instagram and others.

“We have to see how much we can cope with international regulations andover time the international regulations will govern the rules of nationalregulations,” Fawad Chaudhry said.

The minister said that Pakistan is the most modern country in the world interms of media development.

However, he cautioned that only those media outlets will survive that willproduce quality content to stay ahead in the game of competition, whileothers will cease to exist.