ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Wednesday announced that a committee of the Ministry of Information has been formed to propose changes in laws to tackle the issue of fake news and character assassination of individuals on different media platforms. She was speaking during a meeting of Senate Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage at Parliament House. Dr Firdous agreed with the senators that character assassination should not be done on social media. He said he wanted to bring Asif Ali Zardari before the committee so that he could tell about his character assassination on the media. The Senate Committee was given a briefing on working and performance of Lok Virsa.

Source: Pakistan Today July 03, 2019 17:26 UTC