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The National Assembly has been summoned to meet on Monday, the 1st April, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. in the Parliament House, Islamabad
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NA Standing Committee on Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting, National History & Literary Heritage meets

Wednesday, 26th June, 2019

Islamabad; 26th June, 2019: Meeting of the Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting, National History & Literary Heritage was held in Parliament House, Islamabad this afternoon with Mian Javed Latif, in the Chair.

The Committee expressed its grave concern over the issue of non-payment of salaries to the media persons and directed that M/o Information, Broadcasting, National History & Literary Heritage may take stringent measures to clear the remaining dues without further delay and report to the Committee in its next meeting.
 
The Committee stressed upon the need for effective legislation to safeguard the interest of media persons and directed that M/o Information, Broadcasting, National History & Literary Heritage may propose legislation to remove complications in the existing system to streamline the services of media persons so that Committee could support them accordingly.
 
Dr. Nafisa Shah, moved a resolution which was supported by the Chair, Members of Opposition and MQM on the recent acts of abuse and violence against working Journalists by some of the government functionaries and recommended that responsible may be held accountable as per law.
 
Earlier, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information, Broadcasting, National History & Literary Heritage briefly apprised the Committee about the efforts taken by them to safeguard the interest of the media persons and problems faced by them in this regard.
 
The meeting was attended by Ms. Syma Nadeem, MNA, Syed Amin-ul-Haque, MNA, Mr. Nadeem Abbas, MNA, Ch. Muhammad Shahbaz Babar, MNA, Ms. Marriyum Aurangzeb, MNA Ms. Maiza Hameed, MNA, Dr. Nafisa Shah, MNA, Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Behan, MNA, Ms. Naz Baloch, MNA and Officials of M/o Information, Broadcasting, National History & Literary Heritage, and representatives of media Unions.