Information minister expresses concern over safety of journalists in interior Sindh

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has expressed concern over safety of journalists working in interior Sindh.

In a tweet, in response to the killing of a journalist Murtaza Shar in Sangarh, he said security of journalists had become a challenge in Sindh.

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On January 28, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill had said from next week, he would visit offices of all the major news groups with a delegation of journalists and demand an increase in the salaries of journalists.

“When the whole economy is growing at the rate of 5.37 per cent and the media has made a profit of around 40 per cent, then it is incomprehensible not to increase the salary of an ordinary journalist,” Shahbaz Gill had tweeted.

Fawad Hussain had also urged the media houses to increase workers’ salaries to help them deal with the effects of inflation.

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The government had already taken responsibility of health expenses of masses by launching the ‘Health Card’, he had maintained.