Members meet to activate CPNE Islamabad

The meeting discussed all the challenges faced by the council.


Our Correspondent December 16, 2013
The meeting discussed all the challenges faced by the council. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD:


A special meeting of the office-bearers and members of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Islamabad chapter was held on Saturday to re-activate the chapter. The move to call the meeting was initiated by senior vice-president of the chapter and senior editor of Daily Express Ayaz Khan.


The meeting discussed all the challenges faced by the council and agreed that the CPNE and the APNS should work independent of each other without any influence according to their mandate and sphere.

The CPNE Secretary-General Jabbar Khattak said the organisation was divided into two factions which now had been united. “Some people had kept it confined to a briefcase but now it has been liberated with the support of the members,” he said, adding that he expected that the efforts to make the CPNE an effective organisation would continue.

Earlier, Ayaz Khan thanked the participants who had taken part in the meeting on his call. He said it was a long standing wish of the CPNE well-wishers that meaningful efforts be made and steps be taken to activate the chapter and the meeting was one of those efforts. “These efforts should continue,” he added.

The meeting was attended by The Express Tribune Executive Editor Muhammad Ziauddin, Imtiaz Alam, Khushnood Ali Khan (Jinnah and Sahafat), Masood malik (Dunya), Abdul Wadood Qureshi (Khabrain), Mohsin Bilal (Ausaf), Inayatullah Niazi (Daily Pakistan Islamabad), Mohsin Baig (Online), Javed Iqbal Qureshi (INP), Shakil Turabi (Sana News), Tahir Mughal (Nawa-e-Pak), Safir Hussain Shah (Legal Views), Dr Fouzia Khan (Business Worldwide), Durdana Shahab (Sutoor International) and Daily Express Islamabad Resident Editor Rao Khalid Mehmood. The principal information officer Imran Gardezi was also present at the meeting.


Published in The Express Tribune, December 16th, 2013

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