NEW DELHI : The shocking ending of a precious love story in Bareilly, a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, shook the entire region. Jitendra Kumar Yadav and Jyoti loved each other immensely. They swore to live and die together and stood firm in front of their families. Ultimately, after 9 years of love, there was no decrease in their love, but rather it grew stronger and stronger with each passing day. The family spent hours waiting for the loving couple. With the consent of both families, the couple got married with great fanfare on November 25 last year, and their faces beaming with happiness were a sight to behold. No one could have imagined that the couple, who had come together after a long battle of 9 years of love and waiting, would face such a horrific fate at their own hands.
The APNS Executive Committee expressed its concern on consistent indifference of the Federal Govt. to implement the decision of the Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, announced three years ago to increase the Govt. advertisement rates of newspapers. The delay has not only caused severe financial crunch to newspaper industry but also shows that the instructions of the Prime Minister are not being honored .
The members of the Executive Committee observed that PID Islamabad has not paid major portion of dues of member publications released after the new advertising policy of 2020. They requested the PID to expedite the payment of outstanding dues and allocate a fair share in the quantum of advertisements for the print media. They also demanded that the regional PID offices be empowered to suggest media of their regions and authorized the clients to select the media of their choice.
The Sindh based members appraised the Executive Committee that the share in quantum of advertisements released by Sindh Govt. has been considerably reduced.
Further, the payments of non-budgeted advertisements and outstanding liabilities has not being made. The members unanimously decided that the office bearers should meet the Provincial Minister for Information and apprise him the problems faced by Sindh based publications.
The Executive Committee approve the applications for provisional accreditations of M/s. Balance Publicity (Pvt.) Ltd., Lahore and M/s. Red Ocean Communications and PR (Pvt.) Ltd., Lahore.
The Executive Committee also approved the restructuring of M/s. Solution 1, Karachi.
The meeting was attended by the following:
Senator Sarmad Ali, President, Mr. Shahab Zuberi, Vice President, Mr. Muhammad Athar Kazi, Secretary General, Mr. Mohsin Bilal, Joint Secretary, Mr. Mohsin Seyal (Aftab), Mr. Bilal Farooqui (Aghaz), Mr. Najamuddin Sheikh (Deyanat), Mr. Muhammad Younus Mehar (Halchal), Kazi Asad Abid (Ibrat), Syed Akbar Tahir (Jasarat), Mr. Faisal
Shahjehan (Jiddat) Mr. Javed Mehr Shamsi (Kaleem), Mr. Aamir Malik (Mashriq Quetta), Ms. Zahida Abbasi (Nau Sijj), Mr. Salman Qureshi (Naya Rukh), Mr. S.M. Munir Jilani (Paigham), Mr. Mubashir Mir (Pakistan), Mr. Ebraheem Faisal (Pakistan Observer), Mr. Humayun Gulzar (Sayadat), Mr. Irfan Athar (Tijarat).
Mr. Waseem Ahmed (Awam), Mr. Ansar Mahmood Bhatti (Centre Line), Ms. Fauzia Shaheen (Dastak) and Mr. Bilal Mahmood (Nawa-i-Waqt) attended the meeting on Zoom.
Mr. Mumtaz Ali Phulpoto (Awami Parchar) attended the meeting as special observer.
