{"id":1929,"date":"2019-01-14T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2019-01-14T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:21:19","slug":"responsible-media-plays-pivotal-role-in-countrys-development-public-awareness-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/responsible-media-plays-pivotal-role-in-countrys-development-public-awareness-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsible Media plays pivotal role in country&#8217;s development, public awareness: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan 14 (APP): Highlighting the pivotal role of a strong, vibrant and responsible media in the country\u2019s development and public awareness, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday urged the Ministry of Information to play its proactive role in keeping the masses aware about government\u2019s policies through media.<br \/>\nHe also called upon the Ministry of Information to play role in highlighting the government\u2019s reforms agenda and its objectives.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister expressed these views while talking to heads of various wings of the Ministry of Information here. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain and Special Assistants to PM Iftikhar Durrani and Yousaf Baig Mirza were also present in the meeting.<br \/>\nHe said the government was fully cognizant of the factors behind deliberate and concocted propaganda regarding government\u2019s policies about media. However, there was a need to expose this nefarious propaganda with the cooperation of media, he added.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister said since any civilized and responsible society did not allow the dissemination of baseless and concocted news, the relations with media should be further strengthened in the common mission of discouraging the trend of fake news publication.<br \/>\nHe also urged the public relations officers of the various ministries to be proactive in the provision of accurate information to media and ensuring them the access to information.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister said that the present government was first in history which in line with its manifesto was working on structural reforms to improve the lot of country.<br \/>\nHe said the government\u2019s efforts were not aimed at personal gains but for the betterment of country and masses.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister said that structural reforms were always considered as difficult phase in the life of nations, but this difficult phase would follow good and prosperous era.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1930\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1236\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo.jpg 1236w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo-696x520.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo-1068x798.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PM-Photo-562x420.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1236px) 100vw, 1236px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan 14 (APP): Highlighting the pivotal role of a strong, vibrant and responsible media in the country\u2019s development and public awareness, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday urged the Ministry of Information to play its proactive role in keeping the masses aware about government\u2019s policies through media. He also called upon the Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}