ISLAMABAD: Pakistan News Agencies Council (PNAC) has started boycott of all the ceremonies of the Punjab government; meanwhile this decision had been made over the non-cooperative behaviour of the Punjab government officials in professional matters of journalists in Punjab. All the member organizations of the PNAC started boycotting the official ceremonies and media coverage of the Punjab government on Tuesday, adding that instead of the repeated reminders the Punjab government has not improved its behaviour. So the implementation on decision started from Tuesday.
The meeting of the Pakistan Council of News Agencies was held here in Islamabad and was chaired by Council Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Online News Agency Mohsin Baig.
The meeting was attended by Secretary General PNAC, Editor-in-Chief SANA News Shakeel Ahmed Turabi, Vice President PNAC, Editor-in-Chief NNI Ammar Yasir, Deputy Editor-in-Chief ANN Umar Farooq, Managing Director Inter News Services Aslam Khan and Resident Director PPI Adnan Iftikhar.
According to the decisions of meeting PNAC all member organizations would boycott ceremonies of Punjab government as well as press releases of all subordinate institutions of Punjab. Meeting also decided complete boycott of Chief Minister of Punjab and statements, reports of cabinet members. PNAC would not issue any news of provincial government, meeting resolved.