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'Govt will introduce legislation to facilitate media' |
2008-05-24 |
![]() The minister said the new government’s first step was to do away with the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority’s (PEMRA) “black laws”, harming freedom of the media. The government wants to make the PEMRA a true regulatory body, she added. Rehman also condemned Thursday’s killing of journalist Muhammad Ibrahim in Bajaur, and said an investigation report about the killing would be prepared within the next 48 hours and it would be made public. She announced the establishment of a special fund to compensate the families of journalists who died in the line of duty. She denied that the government was withholding issuance of licences to TV channels, saying that licenses would be issued to the channels once they met the required criteria. |
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