APNS delegation calls on Prime Minister Imran Khan

Lahore : Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday said that the government would extend its full support to media . Media had played an important role in conveying the
ideology of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to the masses and making it a success. “If media would not have been there, I would not have been here (on this position). We will fully support media,” he remarked.

The prime minister expressed these views during a meeting with
the delegation of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) here.

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad
Hussain Ch, Special Assistant to PM on Media Iftikhar Durrani, Senator Faisal Javaid and Secretary Information Shafqat Jalil were also in the meeting.

The APNS delegation felicitated Imran Khan on being
elected as the prime minister and apprised him of the problems faced by the newspaper industry.

The prime minister said a strategy was being formulated for
the payment of arrears of media, pending since the previous
governments, so that the problems of newspaper industry could be
resolved.