ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Thursday said that the government has decided to release the pending amounts to media houses with the condition that they will immediately clear all the outstanding dues of their workers.
Dr Firdous apprised the National Assembly’s (NA) Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting about the measures adopted by the government to protect the nation from coronavirus and the problems faced by them in this regard. She said this in response to a question related to protection of the interests of media workers.
Mian Javed Latif, the chairman of the committee, presided over the meeting.
The committee expressed grave concern over the disaster of COVID-19 which paralysed the whole world and stressed upon the need for adopting identical precautionary measures throughout the country in consultation with all provinces to avoid further spread of coronavirus.
The committee directed that Information Ministry should give special incentives to media workers and provide them safety kits at the earliest so that they could work more effectively for the welfare of the country.
The meeting was attended by MNAs Usman Khan Tarakai, Nasir Khan Musazai, Tahir Iqbal, Javeria Zafar Aheer, Kanwal Shauzab, Nadeem Abbas, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Maiza Hameed. Nafisa Shah, Aftab Jahangir, Syma Nadeem, Naz Baloch, Zulfiqar Ali Behan and officials of the Information Ministry and its attached departments.
