ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Wednesday said that the federal government will resolve media workers’ issues through a journalists’ protection law. Firdous Ashiq Awan, while briefing the Senate’s Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting, said the government was holding consultations with the stakeholders over journalists’ issues. She added that the owners of media houses will be contacted in light of the recommendations tabled by the journalist organisations. She continued that the government is going to resolve issues through reformations in journalist protection laws. Senator Pervaiz Rasheed asked the media houses to immediately release the pending salaries of the journalists from the payments issued by the federal government.

Source: Pakistan Today January 29, 2020 14:15 UTC