Bilawal Bhutto Zardari congratulates new CPNE office-bearers

Patron-In-Chief of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has congratulated the newly elected office-bearers of Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) and wished them success in ensuring freedom of the Press. This was stated in a Bilawal House Media Cell statement issued here on Sunday. It said that Mujeebur Rahman Shami, the chief editor of daily Pakistan, Lahore, was elected its president, Dr Jabbar Khattak, the chief editor of daily Awami Awaz, Karachi, as its general secretary on Saturday. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said despite the advent of electronic and social media as swift source of information, the importance of print media remains intact for fairly edited contents. He hoped the newly- elected office-bearers of CPNE will highlight the urge for increasing the level of media literacy among the readers to educate them to differentiate between news, information and biased propaganda aimed at individuals and groups. Bilawal assured the CPNE cabinet of full cooperation from Pakistan Peoples Party in their endeavours for the improvement and progress of the Press and editorial freedoms.