Summary The 2-member committee will assess the security concerns faced by media personnel.
ISLAMABAD: (Dunya News) – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has formed a two member committee comprising of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali and Federal Minister for Information & Broadcast Pervez Rasheed to address the security issues faced by media houses and their employees.
According to reports, the committee will work to form a strategy to provide the security to media personnel. The move has come in the wake of recent increase in attacks on media. Three crew members belonging to Express News were brutally shot dead in Karachi on Friday. Among the martyrs were the technician Waqas, security guard Ashraf and driver Khalid. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman had claimed the responsibility of the attack in a live broadcast.
