PTI leader Shehryar Afridi advised in a meeting of functional committee of the parliament on COVID-19 that government should take immediate steps for saving journalists of being laid off.
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Speaker national assembly Asad Qaiser was chairing a meeting of the Functional Committee of the Parliament on COVID-19 affectees here at the Parliament House, Today.
Shehryar Afridi is leading the subcommittee especially made for the issues of Media workers. Briefing the committee on the issues faced by the journalist community, Afridi said that a delegation of Parliamentary Reporters Association (PRA) had submitted him a charter of demands and there was a need to facilitate the working journalists with safety kits.
He said that the government should take immediate measures to ensure that working journalists may not be laid off during Covid19 while salaries of journalists need to be paid which are pending for almost 11 months. fridi said that PRA has also requested that Prime Minister may also announce a package for journalist community who have been affected due to Coronavirus pandemic.
The PTI Leader said the prime minister may launch a data collection application for working journalists while proper legislation may also be made for protection of jobs of the working journalists.
