ISLAMABAD: The chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting Mian Javed Latif, addressing a press conference said the country suffered consequences due to the restrictions imposed on it.
“Have we not learned anything from the [fall of Dhaka],” the Javed Latif, a senior leader of Opposition Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) said.
The hardcore Muslim Leaguer asked whether pointing out mistakes was a violation of the Constitution, as he referred to a case in which he was arrested for “anti-Pakistan” remarks.
Latif highlighted that people working in line with the Constitution should not fear media, as he slammed the government’s Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA).
The PML-N leader said the PMDA bill has not passed in the assembly and journalists had already been attacked in Islamabad.
On August 20, key stakeholders of media and civil society completely rejected the “draconian” government proposal to create a new authority to regulate the entire spectrum of the country’s media sector, as well as its attempt to “wrongly claim support for it.”
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