CPNE Balochistan demands Federal Govt. to resolve their issues Governments are strangulating the media houses by reducing advertisement quota and are also trying to suppress newspapers directly or indirectly.

QUETTA -- The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Balochistan, reviewing the on-going problems faced by the editors and journalists of Balochistan's local newspapers and freedom of journalisms, demanded from the federal government to resolve their issues.

A CPNE meeting held on Thursday at Quetta Press Club chaired by Anwar Sajidi attended by a number of Editors members. In the meeting Deputy Chairman CPNE Balochistan Arif Baloch, Raza-ur-Rehman, Javed Ahmed, Munir Ahmed Baloch, Ali Lehri, Gulraz Khan, Khalel Ahmed, Naeem Sadiq, Sadiq Baloch and Anwar Khan participated. President PFUJ Shahzad Zulfiqar, President Bochistan Union of Journalist Ayub Tareen, provincial Secretary Information Shah Irfan Gharsheen and Press Secretary to the Chief Minister Balochistan Kamran Asad were also present.

Addressing the meeting Anwar Sajidi said that the newspaper industry is facing through a number of problems in all over the country but especially in Balochistan and the governments are strangulating the media houses by reducing quantum of their advertisements and on the other hand, the government is also trying to pressurize newspapers directly or indirectly.

He said the central government is making efforts to...