KARACHI: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) President Kazim
Khan has announced the establishment of CPNE Islamabad/Rawalpindi
Committee.
In a statement issued by the Secretary General of CPNE, Aamir Mahmood, it has
been said that the objectives of the Islamabad/Rawalpindi Committee include the
problems of Islamabad/Rawalpindi newspapers and journals, journalists, editors
and media organizations, freedom of expression and to highlight the regional
situation of press freedom and try to solve it. The committee will be authorized to
organize meetings, workshops, seminars in this regard.
The Islamabad/Rawalpindi Committee will send action taken,
recommendations/suggestions and performance report to the Standing Committee.
Islamabad/Rawalpindi committee will consist of 16 members, whose chairman is
Sardar Khan Niazi, chief editor of Pakistan/Patriot Group Islamabad, and Yahya
Khan Saduzai, chief editor of daily Lead Pakistan Islamabad, has been appointed
as deputy chairman.
Other members of the committee include Salman Masood (Daily Nation
Islamabad), Tahir Farooq (Daily Jihad Islamabad), Shakeel Ahmad Tarabi (Sabah
News Agency Islamabad), Mian Abrar (Daily Pakistan Today Islamabad), Mumtaz
Ahmad Sadiq (Daily Islamabad). Khabarkar Rawalpindi), Abdul Salam Bath
(Daily Bay Looth Islamabad), Tazain Akhtar (Daily Azkar Islamabad), Sajjad
Abbasi (Daily Ummat Rawalpindi), Mian Fazl Elahi (Monthly Diplomatic Focus
Islamabad), Kasur Jameel Rouhani (Daily Sangmail Islam), Amir Ilyas (Daily
Express Islamabad), Syed Safir Hussain Shah (Daily Legal Views Islamabad),
Khalilur Rehman (Daily Islam Islamabad), and Muhammad Ali Zanjani (Monthly
Aina Qastam Islamabad).
